I'm probably crazy but I'm going to try hatching a egg with my body heat. Hatch-Along

[Lenny loves chickens]

five days in, I cracked it open because it was a very pale egg and saw nothing when candling and it was infertile.

Are you done trying? Or did ya get a new one?

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

I'm taking a break for awhile maybe in a few months.

 

[Lenny loves chickens]

I'm taking a break for awhile maybe in a few months.

If you make a new one in a couple months then tag me please

 

[All4Eggz]

I'm taking a break for awhile maybe in a few months.

Please don't do it again. You just end up killing embryos that could've had a chance at life.

 

[NatJ]

Please don't do it again. You just end up killing embryos that could've had a chance at life.

Two of the eggs showed no development at all, so I hardly think they count as "killing embryos." And since OP is only dealing with one egg at a time, the total number that develop and die may well be LESS than when inexperienced people use incubators (or even experienced people, sometimes.)

(Yes, I think this is a waste of time-- but if OP chooses to spend some of their time this way, I don't see it as a problem.)

 

[chicknmania]

If you're gonna try to hatch an egg yourself might as well make it two or three so if one hatches it won't be lonely. Gee must be nice to have that much spare time...

 

[McChooky]

Instead of trying to raise a lone chick by strapping an egg to your body why don't you make a homemade incubator instead? Then you could hatch as many chicks as you like.

 

[McChooky]

If you're gonna try to hatch an egg yourself might as well make it two or three so if one hatches it won't be lonely. Gee must be nice to have that much spare time...

I can't imagine any egg surviving long enough to hatch esp. if you live an active lifestyle. This experiment has poor odds of being successful so I give it a #1.

 

[chicknmania]

I can't imagine any egg surviving long enough to hatch esp. if you live an active lifestyle. This experiment has poor odds of being successful so I give it a #1.

Anybody who has watched a broody setting knows how they zone out. How else would you survive without dying of boredom? And really, I'd rather spend time in an active lifestyle and eating, drinking, and pooping when I want to....all things a broody can't do if she wants to hatch her eggs.

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

Decided to do it again, I think the reason why two weren't fertile is because they were speckled Sussex eggs and broody does NOT like my roos. I'm using a Australorp egg again. Don't have much to do this month so couch life for me. @Lenny loves chickens