The infamous bra-cubator!

[ebethdaily]

Very interesting process! I had no idea this was a method.

 

[sunflour]

Keep us posted, this is one of the most fun things I've read on here lately!

Good luck @Mamaducky !

X2. Thinking positive, so glad the don't have human incubation for 9 months

Having gotten the short end of the stick in, erm, THAT department, I don't think I'd stop at duck eggs. What is bigger than a goose egg?

Know what ya mean, In the 80's there was the pencil test and never could figure it out..

But, IMO the reverse would be better, what about quail?

Good luck @Mamaducky , but honestly I do think the odds are stacked against you. But I'm in GA and were in a heat wave and know you must be too, so that will help.
Consider an incubator for the nights so the expectant mom can get some cool rest?

 

[drumstick diva]

Emu eggs take 55 days or so to hatch. I think what I find upsetting is overlooking the special care hatching eggs require and doing this as a "fun" experiment.

 

[Briza]

::Mini hopefully inoffensive rant warning for those that want to skip reading it::

As long as people aren't too attached to actually getting a live bird from the egg, I don't see why they can't try. Even failure can teach you something valuable. Plenty of eggs didn't make it to hatch when people were inventing and perfecting incubators. I'm sure someone told them it was better to let a broody do it but here we are with incubators because generations of humans followed their curiosity. Chicken embryos are still serving the human race in countless formal experiments that might never pan out with the knowledge the researchers were actually seeking. What's so offensive about someone following their natural curiosity and trying something?

If we take that attitude, we may as well go back to living in caves because every person that becomes a researcher was a curious child that didn't lose their curiosity as an adult. I mean, have you seen how much we pay researchers in the U.S.A.? You can't raise a family on it unless your partner has a better career to support you. You have to have non-monetary motivation doing that stuff. I still haven't decided if research is worth everything I would have to give up for it. I'm contemplating scrapping my current degree plans and just becoming a vet or teacher. Either way, I'd make twice the starting money of a research-oriented career. It's not just the researcher that needs curiosity and a willingness to try something that may end in countless failures though, entrepreneurs need boatloads of it too.

IMHO, a person's curiosity and the potential it brings with it is worth many times more than the survival of one egg or even a dozen. I'm sure each of us has lost more birds than that due to lack of experience.

 

[CrazyChickLady7]

Ok now I have questions

1) how do you shower because taking them out they have no heat source

2) i wonder whoes ideas this was. Who's going to be like hmm i wonder if I stick this egg in my bra it will hatch

 

[shortgrass]

 

IMHO, a person's curiosity and the potential it brings with it is worth many times more than the survival of one egg or even a dozen. I'm sure each of us has lost more birds than that due to  lack of experience. 

I agree...the many wee plants and animals that have lost their lives in MY little experiments have always paved a brighter future for the ones I didn't have to lose in the process of learning.

Ok now I have questions

1) how do you shower because taking them out they have no heat source

2) i wonder whoes ideas this was. Who's going to be like hmm i wonder if I stick this egg in my bra it will hatch

On the heat source thing... Hen ducks leave the nest at times to eat, drink, hide from predators, etc... The egg doesn't cool off that fast...there's a wee bit of time before the hen needs to be back on them...same would apply here, I assume?

I have to applaud a persons' PATIENCE to try lol.... I thought about putting one in my pocket or a papoose of some kind lol, I'm just too bouncy and going all the time; I KNOW I would break them

 

[enola]

I can't even get from the hen house with an egg in my pocket to the people house to put the egg in the refrigerator without breaking it.........

I would the ultimate FAIL with this experiment

 

[CrazyChickLady7]

Haha i know right. I'll collect 15 eggs and then come into the house with 10