- Feb 19, 2008
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I am new to the site and the forum. We got our chickens the end of May, they started laying in Sept/Oct. They are awesome layers and because we have a roo in the mix with our 9 hennies...my hubby decided to mark one egg w/ a red crayon, so not to be toxic, and we left it in the nest box. Trying to see if my hennie's would hatch it into a chick.We were testing it so maybe to make chicks for friends looking into having baby chicks this spring. I have left it in the box for the last 3-4 weeks. However, to my shocking surprise, yesterday morning when I gathered eggs, I could not for the life of me find the mark on the egg!! The day before I gathered eggs and saw it as usual. So...I have 8 eggs from yesterday and not sure which one is the "test" egg. I tried putting them one @ a time into a bowl of water to test the freshness but they all lay perfectly horizontal. Can anyone help??? My fear is cracking open a half developed egg or a totally rotten one. What to do??? :O