Incubating in my bra

[TheAlrightyGina]

I mean, for example, I could probably shave a naked patch on my cat and rig up a saddle so that she could also incubate an egg—but like, why would I, when both hens and incubators do a way better job?

I suppose that's a fair point but this is a mission of discovery and verifying the potential validity of numerous anecdotal accounts from history about women doing this kind of thing. If you're not interested in participating you know what to do!

 

[Peas4Ducks]

I suppose that's a fair point but this is a mission of discovery and verifying the potential validity of numerous anecdotal accounts from history about women doing this kind of thing. If you're not interested in participating you know what to do!

Fair. Y’all’s survival rate is 0/4... 5? At this point? I will be following continued attempts with interest.

 

[DaisyFaye7]

My family had chickens when I was growing up. When I was a teenager, we had a young hen that was sitting on 2 eggs. The first hatched, and she ended up killing the chick. (It was her first try as a mom, she wasn’t really cut out for it.) I was upset when I discovered what had happened, so I took the second egg and finished hatching it in my bra (only about a day and half, if I remember correctly). I raised the biddy, took him everywhere with me for weeks. He ended up being the most personable friendly rooster ever. He lived a long happy life, and he is still missed.

 

[sjhart18]

Fair. Y’all’s survival rate is 0/4... 5? At this point? I will be following continued attempts with interest.

Hi okay so I f***ed up, but technically there was nothing visibly wrong with my chick that hatched. It hatched completely unassisted and it was only me not thinking things through that resulted in her death. So I think we're 1 for 6

 

[bill3607]

Why climb a mountain? Because it is there.

 

[Peas4Ducks]

Hi okay so I f***ed up, but technically there was nothing visibly wrong with my chick that hatched. It hatched completely unassisted and it was only me not thinking things through that resulted in her death. So I think we're 1 for 6

Yes, and I’m so sorry that happened, it sounds like it was a terrible experience and an unintentional mistake. And at the same time, there’s a reason you didn’t have an incubator running. I can’t help but feel like this whole experiment is anthropocentric and unnecessary, at the expense of the eggs/chicks subjected to it.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Yes, and I’m so sorry that happened, it sounds like it was a terrible experience and an unintentional mistake. And at the same time, there’s a reason you didn’t have an incubator running. I can’t help but feel like this whole experiment is anthropocentric and unnecessary, at the expense of the eggs/chicks subjected to it.

I see where you are coming from, but the way I see it is most of the eggs would have been eaten anyways and not had any chance of life, this experiment may have a low success rate but it is at least giving these eggs a chance at life, even if unlikely.

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

Fair. Y’all’s survival rate is 0/4... 5? At this point? I will be following continued attempts with interest.

Yes, and I’m so sorry that happened, it sounds like it was a terrible experience and an unintentional mistake. And at the same time, there’s a reason you didn’t have an incubator running. I can’t help but feel like this whole experiment is anthropocentric and unnecessary, at the expense of the eggs/chicks subjected to it.

Why follow an experiment that you only wish to condemn? Seems like a waste of your time to me...but I don't condone telling people how to waste their time so I guess enjoy basting in your own negativity juices as we carry on.

I'm kinda wondering though...do you feel the same for the eggs you make for breakfast or whatever? That it's an anthropocentric activity at the expense of the eggs which you will consume? Because not every egg that goes into an incubator even develops--my bregg didn't, and I think it's pretty silly of you to think that just the attempt subjected the egg to some harsher fate than being eaten, composted, or trashed. Not every egg that develops hatches, and not every chick that hatches from an egg survives. Otherwise we'd all be drowning in birds, mmmmkay? To say that we are doing something we shouldn't simply because there is a chance of something going wrong is detrimental to the idea of experimentation in the first place. Things weren't perfect when the incubator was invented either. You gotta work out the kinks! Or work in the kinks MROW!

 

[Peas4Ducks]

Why follow an experiment that you only wish to condemn? Seems like a waste of your time to me...but I don't condone telling people how to waste their time so I guess enjoy basting in your own negativity juices as we carry on.

I'm kinda wondering though...do you feel the same for the eggs you make for breakfast or whatever? That it's an anthropocentric activity at the expense of the eggs which you will consume? Because not every egg that goes into an incubator even develops--my bregg didn't, and I think it's pretty silly of you to think that just the attempt subjected the egg to some harsher fate than being eaten, composted, or trashed. Not every egg that develops hatches, and not every chick that hatches from an egg survives. Otherwise we'd all be drowning in birds, mmmmkay? To say that we are doing something we shouldn't simply because there is a chance of something going wrong is detrimental to the idea of experimentation in the first place. Things weren't perfect when the incubator was invented either. You gotta work out the kinks! Or work in the kinks MROW!

Yep yep... I certainly don't want to baste in negativity juices. If you or anyone else want to continue trying this, I truly hope you develop a method that is as effective as the ones that already exist and that you incubate and raise healthy and thriving chicks.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Is it concerning that I have plans to do this if I ever have to have surgery or when I will inevitably break another bone
That’s pretty much the only thing that could convince me to slow down long enough to avoid scrambling the poor baby. Kinda wish I’d had chickens when I got my wisdom teeth out a few years back.

On another note I’m in the middle of incubating in a normal incubator for the first time. I’m on day 12 and 31/33 are still alive. It’s getting addicting already. I’m considering seeing if I can get some eggs from my cousins flock since she has some different breeds. No idea where I’d put them once they hatched lol.