Store-bought Free-Range Eggs are developing!

[Sillystunt]

Is this what you saw for fertility? I just bought some at walmart and i am dying to know ??? how's the hatch going?

 

[ICantBelieveItsNotChicken]

My eyesight is not as good as it used to be but that looks like an unfertilized blastocyte to me

 

[babyspice35]

It doesn't appear to have the telltale bulls-eye

 

[SpunkyTheMonkey]

too out of focus to tell but i'd say it's too big to be UNfertilised.

macro shot?

 

[Chotii]

I don't know why Adrian hasn't weighed in here, but I PM'd and got a reply:

I only ended up getting 3 chicks.
The incubator settings are tried and true. Humidity and temperature were fine, they just started to die off in large numbers.

To prove that my incubator is proper... the chicks that did hatch hatched on their own, on day 21 exactly. Had no complications. And I have hatched 12 goose eggs in that incubator this year, and am currently incubating 23 perfectly healthy duck eggs, all of which were fertile and none of which have died.

So... I think flock health means a lot in terms of hatching.

But the chicks are adorable.

So there you go....3 out of 12. Honestly, that's not horrible IMO. That's better than people sometimes get with shipped eggs after all, without paying for shipping.​

 

[prncssprplfrog]

Awesome & very interesting!

 

[Emilys3guppies]

I just posted...I have 2 embies developing in 6 eggs bought from my large grocery store. Free-run, not marked as 'fertile' eggs. It's still too soon to discount the others, but it's hilarious to me that at least 2 are developing!

 

[Chotii]

I bought 'O' Organics brand (Safeway, same as Adrian just hatched those 3 from) at my local store, but the eggs do not appear to be fertile. It may have been a chance thing, depending on which small farm they were sourced at.

I will continue to buy free-run eggs, freshest possible, and check them. I may turn my bator back on if I find any fertile ones.

Right now, my bator is off because I hatched out 8, and I told hubby that's all I really wanted to do: finally get chicken eggs to hatch. They did. However, I have a friend who is trying to raise a bunch of critically-rare breeds of chickens. I have offered my bator for her use (she already has one, but it's just a little hovabator) and that will justify starting up again, surely.

But if I do find any fertile grocery store eggs? I just might do it anyway.

 

[FluffyColor]

Hey guys from the wal-mart thread,I GET A FRONT SEAT!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sillystunt]

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yes, the morei look at the other pictures i say unfertile

thanks ya'll