Okay, I admit it. I'm crazy. I'm gonna try to hatch refrigerated eggs.

[tgperg]

My rooster and my favorite hen died this month. I had grabbed some of her eggs out of the fridge to stick in a broody nest to tempt one of my hens, but she decided sitting on eggs was for losers. I threw the eggs back in the fridge to use for emergency chick food, and I accidentally grabbed some this morning to make for breakfast. THERE WERE DEVELOPING EMBRYOS INSIDE! You know what this means. Yes, this means I have to try to hatch some of Charlotte's eggs. I've seen that it can work, sometimes, maybe. I'm going to give it a shot at least. Can't hurt, right? Any advice or just hatch like normal?


Traci

 

[MarkMatt]

If the embryos were already developing and then place in the refrigerator for a few days then the chances of the embryo still being alive are next to impossible. I have had success hatching refrigerated eggs that were refrigerated fresh and had not started developing.

 

[cmfarm]

I agree with the above poster. If they started to develop and then were put back in the fridge they probably aren't viable. But you can always try.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

You've got nothing to lose so try it and see what happens.

Unless they were shipped to me all of my hatching eggs are refrigerated. But I do that before they are incubated so I have no idea if yours will have survived or not, but what have you got to lose?

 

[tgperg]

I meant that most of them were never incubated first, but refrigerated right away. Those are the eggs I'm going to try to hatch.

 

[cmom]

A.T. Hagan :

You've got nothing to lose so try it and see what happens.

Unless they were shipped to me all of my hatching eggs are refrigerated. But I do that before they are incubated so I have no idea if yours will have survived or not, but what have you got to lose?

I agree...

There is another thread where a BYC member put refrigerated eggs into her incubator. I don't remember how many hatched but some did. This was quite awhile back. I will try to find the thread. Good luck and have fun!!!​

 

[cmfarm]

Okay, in that case you should probably have some hatch. There is a thread about store bought fertile eggs that were refigerated that have hatched (it is a BIG thread, so many people have hatched them).