The Great Wal-Mart Organic Eggs Experiment (Pics)

[ke_ben]

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hey now, I'm sitting at the front of the theater!

No pushing and shoving necessary, it's a BIG theater!

 

[dancingbear]

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Correct! Excellent parallel.

For that matter, there is no actual chick in a fertile egg, either, until it's been incubated and starts developing.

(I put "Live embryos" on my egg shipping boxes, but that's kind of an exaggeration, just to encourage PO personnel to handle them nicely. I put pics of chicks from the species/breed on the box, too. It gets their attention and they like the cute pics.)

 

[wildorchid053]

the eggs were a local grocery store brand.. and "bullseye jr." made a delicious german chocolate cake lol

 

[Boondachs]

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hey now, I'm sitting at the front of the theater!

No pushing and shoving necessary, it's a BIG theater!

I see whats happening. It's a conspiracy to take my seat when I go potty during intermition! Well, I'll show all of you, I'll just hold it!

 

[Holly O]

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No pushing and shoving necessary, it's a BIG theater!

I see whats happening. It's a conspiracy to take my seat when I go potty during intermition! Well, I'll show all of you, I'll just hold it!

LMAO .. you guys place nice... we all will get to see the wal-mart organic chicks ...

 

[nhnanna]

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I see whats happening. It's a conspiracy to take my seat when I go potty during intermition! Well, I'll show all of you, I'll just hold it!

LMAO .. you guys place nice... we all will get to see the wal-mart organic chicks ...

I can see the chicken names now........

 

[Boondachs]

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LMAO .. you guys place nice... we all will get to see the wal-mart organic chicks ...

I can see the chicken names now........

ooooooooooooooooooooooooo the name game.... should we wait untill we have candling conformation first???????

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

The place Wal-Mart gets their eggs, do we even know they have roos? Organic, to me, doesn't mean fertile. It just means either free range, or AT LEAST chemical free. No extra hormones and feed additives and whatnot. But I guess if someone has hatched wal-mart eggs before, then maybe there are roos out there after all

 

[dancingbear]

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Mary, you're correct, "organic" has nothing to do with whether they're fertile. It has to do with how they are raised and what they eat. However, many organic operations do have a few roos running around, so there's a chance of getting some fertile eggs, even though they aren't labeled as such. If a person can't find eggs labeled fertile, they still may be able to find some fertile eggs to try hatching, they just might not be labeled fertile.

And, as noted in one of the posts in this thread, when hatcheries have too many eggs, the surplus will be sold as eating eggs. Makes sense, no reason to throw them out. So there's a chance of getting fertile eggs even with non-organic, ordinary grocery store eggs. Maybe not a large chance, and probably more likely in the spring and summer than it would be in the winter, but a chance anyway.

 

[backdoorchicken]

off topic: dancingbear where did you get your name?