Store-bought Free-Range Eggs are developing!

[adrian]

Just lost 2 of them the other day... No idea why, I hatched 10 out or 12 goose eggs on the same temperature setting this year, and it has been rock solid, not varying more than 0.3F. Plus, I have my thermometers calibrated with a medical thermometer. I was suggested that it is simply due to them being refrigerated longer than ideal. They were probably at the store for 3 or more days, and store refrigerators are colder than household ones. They were also likely jumbled during shipping, who knows...

Anyway, I have 7 good ones... I was expecting 1 or 2, so this is still good. I am hoping they do well.

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

Im going to have to try this! I live in Alaska so it might be a long shot but worth a try. You got me excited

 

[Sillystunt]

 

[Rootball]

Whats the hatch date on these suckers?

 

[Katy_didnot]

I'm all agog! Waiting for new developments....

 

[tnlorprazer]

If she put them in on the 8th or 9th then hatch day should be around the 29th or 30th...

 

[StaatsFarms]

how are the eggs doing???

 

[tia]

I checked with the grocery store here to see what day their organic eggs come in. They are due in tomorrow. I thought I would buy some and open a couple and see if they are fertile. I know there is a " sell by date" but the other number 181 E is that the day they were laid or is that the day they were put in the carton? I am going to see how fresh they are. My duck eggs hatch Wednesday. I would like to try some of these chicken eggs just to see what happens. I can't keep the chickens though, so i will have to find a home for them before I try to hatch some. If they are real cute... in might be too difficult to give them away... : )

Tia

 

[Chotii]

181 ought to be the packing date, in Julian numbers (ie, the 181st day of the year, which would have been June 30.

Oddly enough, the man in charge of the egg display case at my local Trader Joe's told me (incorrectly, I believe) that the numbers on the end of each carton were not Julian numbers (even though they ranged from 177 to 194), but the number of the individual sourced farm. However, as yesterday was day 207 of the year, I simply bought a carton from the stack dated most recently, and left.

 

[momahenTN]

Ok so any new arrivals yet? Good Luck to ya. This is just like buying the mixed batches at your local Tractor Supply at easter. Dont know what you are gonna get but they are all cute as chicks anyway.