Peeping Eggs in boiling water- OMG!!!

[Whimsical Farming Wife]

Both of my girls are so sad (and so am I... but I have to hold it together). With no progress being made, it was just cruel to leave the poor chick peeping away desperately. Cull done. Thank you for everyone's support, suggestions, and encouragement.
Lessons learned:
1. unless collecting a clutch, collect & refrigerate eggs immediately (at least once a day)
2. MUST have a humidity meter in incubator
3. If chicks cannot get out of shell alone, it wasn't meant to be (at least not for me)
4. when the children are caring for animals... prepare for tears

 

[Theeggboxtoo]

Both of my girls are so sad (and so am I... but I have to hold it together). With no progress being made, it was just cruel to leave the poor chick peeping away desperately. Cull done. Thank you for everyone's support, suggestions, and encouragement.
Lessons learned:
1. unless collecting a clutch, collect & refrigerate eggs immediately (at least once a day)
2. MUST have a humidity meter in incubator
3. If chicks cannot get out of shell alone, it wasn't meant to be (at least not for me)
4. when the children are caring for animals... prepare for tears

 

[yinepu]

everyone thinks it's so amazing.. but I must have missed something.. so you had eggs sitting in a bucket.. THREE weeks ago.. put them into an incubator and they hatched?.. nothing amazing there.. they were incubated for 21 days give or take a few days...

as for the "peeping eggs" that went into the hot water.. I have had eggs make a peeping sound when boiled.. nothing more than air bubbles escaping through the pores of the shell.. now had you cracked them open and found chicks ready to hatch .. that would have been different.. but from what I read you never cracked them open?.. also I thought where I read that the temperature outside where you are was 10 degrees celcius.. isn't that only 50 degrees farenheit?.. if so that's just a tad bit warmer than a fridge.. so there isn't any way those eggs would have developed into chicks if kept that cool... though they would be fine once put into an incubator. we often store hatching eggs at 50 degrees for several weeks for hatching..

i don't mean to sound like a downer.. just don't see why everyone was so amazed that they hatched...

 

[Whimsical Farming Wife]

everyone thinks it's so amazing.. but I must have missed something.. so you had eggs sitting in a bucket.. THREE weeks ago.. put them into an incubator and they hatched?.. nothing amazing there.. they were incubated for 21 days give or take a few days...

as for the "peeping eggs" that went into the hot water.. I have had eggs make a peeping sound when boiled.. nothing more than air bubbles escaping through the pores of the shell.. now had you cracked them open and found chicks ready to hatch .. that would have been different.. but from what I read you never cracked them open?.. also I thought where I read that the temperature outside where you are was 10 degrees celcius.. isn't that only 50 degrees farenheit?.. if so that's just a tad bit warmer than a fridge.. so there isn't any way those eggs would have developed into chicks if kept that cool... though they would be fine once put into an incubator. we often store hatching eggs at 50 degrees for several weeks for hatching..

i don't mean to sound like a downer.. just don't see why everyone was so amazed that they hatched...

What surprised me most about this scenario, was the peeping chick, and that it developed to that point while in a fairly cool bucket (10 celcius)... trust me... it was a FRANTIC peeping chick! As for the remaining eggs that hatched, I think what is surprising about those was that they were in far less than ideal conditons prior to incubating (left to sit still for long periods between adding new eggs, left for many weeks, and then being washed for boiling preperation!).

 

[yinepu]

What surprised me most about this scenario, was the peeping chick, and that it developed to that point while in a fairly cool bucket (10 celcius)... trust me... it was a FRANTIC peeping chick! As for the remaining eggs that hatched, I think what is surprising about those was that they were in far less than ideal conditons prior to incubating (left to sit still for long periods between adding new eggs, left for many weeks, and then being washed for boiling preperation!).

well.. for a chick to peep it would have to be within a day or two of hatching .. is there the possibility that a hen had a clutch of eggs that she was setting and they were collected right before you boiled the eggs?.. otherwise at 50 degrees the chick would have gotten too chilled and probably would have died from the cold temperatures.. but I can assure you.. eggs won't develop into chicks if the egg is kept at a constant 50 degrees through the entire incubation period.. it's just not possible

 

[iluvsedward]

well.. for a chick to peep it would have to be within a day or two of hatching .. is there the possibility that a hen had a clutch of eggs that she was setting and they were collected right before you boiled the eggs?.. otherwise at 50 degrees the chick would have gotten too chilled and probably would have died from the cold temperatures.. but I can assure you.. eggs won't develop into chicks if the egg is kept at a constant 50 degrees through the entire incubation period.. it's just not possible

yinepu IS right. It's impossible. why don't we incubate our eggs at like 80*-90* degrees if those are the conditions under which they are possible to hatch?

 

[Triplell]

We have to remember that this senario is nothing but mother-nature at its best. We all know about the science of the incubation but miracles happen every day in mother natures world. I have once seen a duck collect eggs from another hen that alway's laid her eggs in water. She sat on the cluctch the entire time(clutch size was around 16 eggs) and they all hatched!!! I never would have beleived it but it was the high school's FFA/ Animal science farm. I was the farm manager and let her do this. All three teachers said that it was a was't of time but I disagreed. I made it my animal science thesis for graduating with animal science as a major. It also made it in the Cal-Poly Tech magazine. Good job on getting these eggs to hatch.

 

[CherylR]

Very interesting story. Glad I clicked and read it. Thanks for sharing!