supermarket eggs will they hatch

[My Little Sister's Farm]

There is something called parthenogenesis, where an unfertilied egg will incubate and hatch. Genetically it will always be male. This is a protection device for the species as if only females exist in the area, continent, world...then eventually a boy will hatch out and if he is strong enough to make it to sexual maturity it will help to repopulate the area with chickens again. This is rare, but my professor at OSU has had infertile eggs reach several stages of development, never a hatch, but maybe someday.

Any-who, I just wanted to share a bit of biology info I had for anyone who wondered if it were possible. (I guess it would be possible in this case for the egg to come first in the grand question of which came first

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[Davaroo]

My Little Sister's Farm :

There is something called parthenogenesis, where an unfertilied egg will incubate and hatch. Genetically it will always be male. This is a protection device for the species as if only females exist in the area, continent, world...then eventually a boy will hatch out and if he is strong enough to make it to sexual maturity it will help to repopulate the area with chickens again. This is rare, but my professor at OSU has had infertile eggs reach several stages of development, never a hatch, but maybe someday.

Any-who, I just wanted to share a bit of biology info I had for anyone who wondered if it were possible. (I guess it would be possible in this case for the egg to come first in the grand question of which came first

)

Ive heard of this, too. It's a stretch and certainly nothing to rely on. But it is cool.

It leads to another of lifes great mystery:

Where do frogs come from?

I live a long way from any reliable natural surface water source. But when I let my wading pool languish after the season and turn green, frogs appeared. NOT toads, but aquatic frogs. It was like spontaneous combustion or something. Whats up with that?​

 

[MissPrissy]

Birds carry eggs on their feet.

I have even seen it rain tiny little frogs

 

[Timmo]

Aliens, Dave.

Aliens.

 

[My Little Sister's Farm]

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Of course, it isn't to be relied on, it is so rare that parthenogenesis will happen, even rarer that one will hatch, and when they have hatched, they are usually very weak. I think it took incubating 20,000 eggs infertile eggs once they discovered the phenomena to get one to pip. But I thought since we were on the subject of "crazier things have happened" I'd share too.

 

[Davaroo]

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Ive heard of frog rains, fish too. The eggs on bird feet seems plausible.
Aliens?

 

[can you hear me now?]

I know this brings us farther off of the subject, but, I have also heard of storks carrying fish eggs on their feet. Like blue gills and other species of perch.

 

[Davaroo]

can you hear me now? :

I know this brings us farther off of the subject, but, I have also heard of storks carrying fish eggs on their feet. Like blue gills and other species of perch.

Two things:
Why is it so awful to get off topic? Often enough, the topic is answered within the first five to ten posts, anyway. Some one asks, "Why do chickens -------?" Then someone answers, "Because chickens ---------. " Whats left, but to get off from there? Whats the big stigma?

Second - the frog eggs on birds feet seems the most plausible.
I have been researching this and I have YET to find a more likely answer. There is the fact that frogs exist in all sorts of environments and only need water during reproduction. You can have frogs living in all sorts of places removed from water, and the possibility exists that they are alrady there. I have not seen any in my yard, although they could be hiding real good.

I have also heard some lulu's. Everything from the frogs evaporate into the air and then come down in my back yard to aliens. And so it always goes.
I like the bird idea best, although I have yet to see that mentioned as a cause.

But Ive gotten off topic, I guess. Gasp!
How are the store bought eggs doing, anyway?​

 

[plymouthrockFarm123]

day 19 OMG the 2 have little chicks in them!!!! i raised the humidity yesterday it is all good now i have to wait

 

[turtle1173]

Is this the 2 that came from the supermarket? or a farmer's market? What color are the eggs? How was the carton of eggs marked?

Is that enough questions? LOL

Congrats!

Shane