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[Briggadane]

Has anyone tried hatching store eggs NOT labeled fertile and hatched chicks?

 

[robgray]

Here are the babies today....I am thinking any females would produce larger eggs than I get from my layer flock!
Not that I need anymore chickens either!!

 

[HighStreetCoop]

So, I candled tonight. Day 16. 2 clears, tossed. 2 developing. 1 seems to be developing, but is "sloshy". Should I toss that one, too?

 

[HighStreetCoop]

Has anyone tried hatching store eggs NOT labeled fertile and hatched chicks?

Why? Those hens won't have been kept with roosters, so unless you're expecting parthonogenesis, nothing is going to happen.

 

[Briggadane]

I'm wondering if the cartons just aren't marked. Here in Ohio, we are not required to mark eggs as fertile or not. So it is possible.
Not sure if folks knew this. Each state decides what has to be included on the label.

 

[Manningjw]

Same here. The eggs were brought to the store on a Sun. I bought them on a Tues. I did check the dates and picked out a fresh one. Eggs are brown.

Are yours labeled as Fertile? Are they from TJ's?

 

[Sill]

I'm wondering if the cartons just aren't marked. Here in Ohio, we are not required to mark eggs as fertile or not. So it is possible.
Not sure if folks knew this. Each state decides what has to be included on the label.

Probably not going to happen. Commercial egg producers are not going to waste feed on a "non-productive" rooster if the objective is not to get fertile eggs.

 

[ronott1]

I'm wondering if the cartons just aren't marked. Here in Ohio, we are not required to mark eggs as fertile or not. So it is possible.
Not sure if folks knew this. Each state decides what has to be included on the label.

Roosters do not increase egg laying rate so a commercial egg laying battery will not have roosters--they also are in little cages that would not allow breeding.

Fertile eggs are worth more so if they were fertile they would be sold as fertile. Some think that fertile eggs are healthier.

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

Yeah

Roosters do not increase egg laying rate so a commercial egg laying battery will not have roosters--they also are in little cages that would not allow breeding.

Fertile eggs are worth more so if they were fertile they would be sold as fertile. Some think that fertile eggs are healthier. 

Yeah...you'd actually have a better chance having an egg develop through parthigenesis than to have an accidental rooster in a laying cage with a few hens. I'd say your chances would be 1 in several million. The only way you would be at all likely would be if you bought free-range eggs that were locally produced and that farmer happened to have a few roosters in the flock. The big commercial farms either take the extra step to produce and sell fertile eggs or they absolutely do not.

 

[chickadoodles]

Here in Alabama Sylvest and Wayne Farms have roosters in with the hens in chicken houses where they collect eggs for sale. They do not advertise fertile eggs either. But I also do not see our farm raised eggs for sale here in our grocery stores so they probably export them somewhere.