How to keep fertile eggs from hatching...

[Chickie'sMoma]

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i was thinking that the stuff you get in the pharmacy area was ok too since it is used internally for humans and i keep a bottle for that rare occasion of an egg bound pullet or other bird digestive track issues. now i'll just have to mark and keep the bottles separate-one for egg coating use and the other for bird use.

if they have the food grade expensive stuff in a spray bottle couldn't you just buy the store bought stuff and put it into a spray bottle or would it just gunk up the nozzle?

 

[IggiMom]

Well, you could just keep them cold. I do the mineral oil waxing just for freshness.

However, re keeping them cold--there are a number of people who are hatching out Trader Joe's eggs, and I would assume that they keep them refrigerated.

It was just a thought I had because someone was wondering how to keep her eggs from hatching, and I think this is a way that should work.

Catherine

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

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what you are probably finding might be a blood spot in the egg, that may not necessarily be a developing embryo. i also know that there are a few people who have refrigerated their fertile eggs and lost the hen that laid them, so they incubated the eggs with some success!v i think they were only a few days in the fridge too.

 

[Chickiemama1010]

what you are probably finding might be a blood spot in the egg, that may not necessarily be a developing embryo. i also know that there are a few people who have refrigerated their fertile eggs and lost the hen that laid them, so they incubated the eggs with some success!v i think they were only a few days in the fridge too.

Thats what i figured. Sometimes though, the "blood spot" is pencil-eraser sized, and solid. Very occasionally theres a chunk of it, and it has a black spot in it too. I have no idea if its embryo, and i just have thoughts of it being an eye or a skull. Kinda grosses me out. I still use the egg, just not the chunk of grossness inside of it. I cant imagine an embryo will develop to pencil eraser size in the fridge. I collect eggs daily, and my GCs that are laying are not ever gonna sit on them. they lay the egg and walk away, never to look back. so I know they dont get warmed up.

Im not trying to steal the thread here. I think the mineral oil think would work as it will make the shell not porous & "breathable".​

 

[ginbart]

That was my thread. Thanks for letting me know I'll try and get some.

 

[IggiMom]

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Oh, good, I am so glad you saw it.

Yes, I would not want someone hatching out my eating eggs! I have some Wheaten Americanas that I paid $10 each for as young birds, lovely clear blue eggs.

Catherine