Hi!!!

[chickendreams24]

Uh oh.

When you purchased these off eBay did you know you would be receiving hatching eggs and not chicks?

Do you have an incubator to hatch the eggs in?

After the eggs hatch you will need a brooder and then a chicken coop.

What breed of eggs did you buy?

 

[kentuckyfriedchicken101]

No I did not. I don't have any equipment to hatch the eggs in. I got 12 Ayam Cemani eggs.

 

[Teila]

I hope you enjoy being a BYC member. There are lots of friendly and very helpful folks here so not only is it overflowing with useful information it is also a great place to make friends and have some fun.

Including your general location on your profile will assist others. Location, climate, season etc can be important factors when members are responding to any questions you may have and vice versa.

You might want to also Find Your State Thread and pop in and say hello.

Another link you may be interested in: Incubating & Hatching Eggs

 

[Quik1th]

Nope. I'm 23 and I work at Mc Donalds. I dropped out of high school. I don't get homework anymore...... The picture I posted are the instructions for the chickens I got in the mail from ebay.

--- Min Yoongay

It is a grammar assignment....interesting choice of instructions from seller on EBay.

 

[chickendreams24]

Oh goodness I was worried about that.

Okay I'm fairly certain it's against the rules to sell any living creature on eBay. Hatching eggs are a loophole.

I would like to know what the listing said to make you think you would be receiving day old chicks.

Are these going to be your first chickens? I forget if you answered this before. Sorry if you did.

At this point if you want these eggs to hatch you need to buy an incubator and incubate them for 21 days until they hatch or get on your state thread and ask if someone can try incubating them for you. What state are you in?

Hatching eggs are always a risk, especially shipped because you don't know for sure how honest the seller was about the age of the eggs, how they were handled in shipping etc.

They may or may not hatch.

 

[drumstick diva]

 

[Pork Pie]

Hello and welcome to BYC. Teila has given you a link to the most appropriate forum for answers to your questions. Good luck.

 

[Joeschooks]

Hello Min and

As Chickendreams said you might find someone near you who is happy to hatch them for you either in an incubator or under a broody. Alternatively you might Google "incubator hire". Here in UK theres a few local places that offer incubator hire for schools and individuals. Or you might try your luck with a cheap Chinese imported incubator on ebay, although how much luck you will have with those I don't know. Whatever you decide, try to incubate those eggs as soon as possible as the viability of the eggs drops dramatically after two weeks. Good luck

 

[kentuckyfriedchicken101]

It is a grammar assignment....interesting choice of instructions from seller on EBay.

It is a grammar assignment....interesting choice of instructions from seller on EBay.

Its not, but you can be rude like that.

 

[Quik1th]

Its not, but you can be rude like that.

My apologies, I assure you I wasn’t trying to be rude.

Right under “hatching chicks” it says find and mark ten errors in the paragraph. This seems very strange for instructions from a seller for hatching eggs.