The Great Wal-Mart Organic Eggs Experiment (Pics)

[dancingbear]

What pretty babies! I love my mixed breed chicks, too. right now I have a bunch of brahmas, EE, dark Cornish, BO, and australorp crosses. I have a bunch of EE/LB crosses, right now, they look like they'll have LB coloring, some have fuzzy feet, and puffy cheek fluff, where they're gonna have big EE muffs. And they are such fat little things! Very cute.

 

[bishopschickens]

Yeah, you take a bunch of pure breds and mix them and get some interesting but pretty babies. But mix mixes and you are more likely to get some pretty ugly birds!! They were just for fun as I had a lot of people wanting chicks but my new breeders were not laying yet.

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

Good luck! I hope some hatch for you.

My situation was a bit different, but I hatched a chick out of an egg that had been refrigerated for at least a few days. My parents & husband told me that refrigerated eggs would not hatch, ever. I had to prove them wrong.

I bought a dozen "local free range" eggs from a local bread store for $1.50 and chose 2 to put in my incubator just as an experiment to prove them wrong. The man at the store said they had been in the store's fridge for about 3 days. I picked a light green egg and a brown speckled egg out from the dozen and refrigerated the others for eating. The green egg actually hatched out a pretty little black chick with muffs last week. The other egg had some development, too, but something went wrong early in the incubation apparently and it did not hatch.

I am assuming my little chick is an EE mix since they were free ranging chickens and the eggs were of all different types.

Edited to add: I will post a picture of him if anyone is interested, but have to wait until tomorrow to take one since it's dark outside right now.

 

[HenMaster]

Waiting for the pic.

 

[backdoorchicken]

Quote:
ditto

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

I slept late today because I am off of work. It's only 9:30 a.m. here. I will get out and take one as soon as I get dressed and finish checking my emails.

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

Here it is, my "refrigerator chick." I need to find a name for it. If this one's a female, I will probably keep it. I didn't even notice the few feathers on its legs until I took this picture. It came from a green egg and has a muff, plus now I see the feathered legs. I guess it's probably an EE/Cochin mix or something like that.

 

[Bring]

Is it just me or is that chick smiling?

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

I didn't notice, but I'd like to think he is smiling.

He (or she) is a calm, sweet chick.

 

[Wifezilla]

You need a name for a refrigerator chick?

Amana?
Frigidaire?
Kenmore? (goo roo name

)
Maytag?
Jenn-Air?