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[Cowgirlgrace]

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I'm not expecting anything! I'll be happy if I just get some to hatch (and be healthy).

So, you found them at a store?
They have been heated & washed with bleach solution and refrigerated for how long...2 weeks ?
Or did you order fresh hatching eggs...??
There are so many of us with fertile REAL breed eggs, why this????????????????????????????????????????????????????
You have lost me totally!!!

There is a thread on BYC that talks about people hatching the Trader Joes fertile eggs just for fun. Some are successful, some not. they are white eggs though and they turn out to be leghorns. Looks like Ari will at least get some brown egg layers. That should make Rustler HAPPY!

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Pettec, Your wedding looks like it was awesome, you are gorgeous! and love the boots, perfect touch! DH ain't so bad either.

 

[SadieSue]

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What??? Nice tip CR, though I don't know who you could possibly be talking about. Who wouldn't know to take care of that kind of stuff with extra caution?

Sheesh.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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What??? Nice tip CR, though I don't know who you could possibly be talking about. Who wouldn't know to take care of that kind of stuff with extra caution?

Sheesh.

I'm with you Sadie, his post came out of the blue and haven't a clue who or what he was referring to? Rustler? What made you say that?

Sadie, so glad your daughter made it home safe! Hope you have the best Turkey Day ever.

 

[Chickielady]

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Yes, I bought them at Whole Foods. I mentioned here that I had never hatched eggs before, and asked if I should try with some cheap eggs before I bought $ ones I really wanted. Someone said that was a good idea (don't recall who, not that it matters - sounded like a good plan to me). I did ask Tamara about eggs (since I like Lav Orps) but she said she wasn't getting many right now. I figured that would be the case for most people.

I just checked my birds. They're dry, no problem. However, the two EEs were on the perch, and the rest were huddled underneath them, getting s#&@ on.

I put everybody up on the perches.

So,...mmmmmmmmmmm what you are telling me is that you are starting to hatch eggs for the very first time with crap eggs.............gee, what a lovely lesson that will be!
Seems to me that if one wants to learn, they get the freshest fertile eggs they can...and the best equipment you can.
Learning to fail, is what you are doing.
If you need fertile fresh eggs, I have lots...never been in a refrigerator or sterilizer either...

What you are doing is practicing to be a failure.
IF they hatch (I doubt it) they should be seriously screwed up by bleach solution used to wash eggs commercially, and refrigeration...and TIME.
hatching eggs need to be incubated (as far as I am concerned) within 5 days...most other feel within 6-7 days removed from the hen....comercial eggs are usually 2 weeks old, that is why you can hard boil & peel them, the membrane is dried out away from the shell...........
Get some real eggs.
I can send you some OR give you some at the show, let me know.

 

[Chickielady]

GaWWWWWWWWWWDD!!! Is Julie just GORGEOUS in her wedding pics????????????
Man oh man I would choose the same dress..............I want her gorgeous long thick red hair though.....But I will tell ya, they look soooooooooooooooooo happy, and have lived together for quite some time...so I expect this to last!!!

Wish my BH would deal with it.................

 

[AriLovesChickens]

Fine, fine...you don't have to twist my arm to get me to hatch more eggs. BUT I'm going to be out of town over Christmas, so I won't start anymore until I get back.

And as CGG mentioned, there's a long thread about this on BYC. I would not have come up with the idea myself if I hadn't seen people succeeding with it.

It didn't really phase me that they might not hatch or turn out poorly - I expected as much. I don't consider it learning how to fail! I didn't want my first trial of hatching to be done with $40/dz eggs. If this doesn't work out, I'm only out $4 or so.

 

[cheryl98117]

Im sitting here playing fetch with my DD.

 

[SadieSue]

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I'm still looking for the crazy part. I don't see anything out of line with the above.
I got home from work about 3:30 this afternoon. Seeing how dark it was already I ran down to the run to visit with the chickens before they went to bed and give them some BOSS. So while I'm visiting with them, I watched my very efficient solar sensitive coop door slowly close. I looked at the girls, (and cockerels) and they were all happily eating, drinking and completely unaware that they had just been shut out of the coop. I continued to watch them for awhile in the cold and was grateful that I had a nice roofed run to stand under since it was pouring rain. Eventually I reached under the lip of the door and lifted it, holding it open until Miss Whitey Ford finally noticed it was open and decided to take a slow, leisurely stroll up the ramp and into the coop, ducking under my hand as she did so. I stood there waiting until one by one they each decided to go up to bed. Finally all that was left was one flighty cockerel who decided he had to circle around the inside perimeter of the run in panic because he'd been left alone and if he wanted to join the others would have to walk right by me. Oh, the horror. When he realized his need to be with the flock was greater than his fear of me, he darted up in a hurry.

The whole process took about 35 minutes. I was out there so long waiting for the little darlings that my Golden Retriever who usually keeps me company and helps me whenever I'm outside with the chickens finally went in the house. So no, I don't think what you did is crazy at all. When I finished I found my Golden lying on the family room sofa in front of the gas stove, looking a little sheepish but "gosh mom it was kind of cold out there". (And yes, I'm going to move the solar sensor so that it recognizes daylight a little longer than it did this afternoon. I might not always be around to tuck each little chick into bed.)

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Raining hard here. Coop is 48 degrees right now. And I don't have the heat lamp on yet. I don't think I will turn it on tonight.
Plenty warm.