Hatching from shop bought eggs

[Hipkiss1987]

Saw something on social media the other day about people hatching chicks from shop bought eggs.

Anyone have experience in this?

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Heard it is true BUT only for unusual birds, not chickens as few shop sold chook eggs will have a cockerel running with the flock. Roadside chook you're more than likely. We've two flocks, both with cockerells so they're all fertilised. IMO mind!

SS

 

[Hipkiss1987]

Heard it is true BUT only for unusual birds, not chickens as few shop sold chook eggs will have a cockerel running with the flock. Roadside chook you're more than likely. We've two flocks, both with cockerells so they're all fertilised. IMO mind!

SS

So how do the farmed chickens have fertilised? What do you mean unusual birds?

 

[Kidds]

Plenty of stories of people hatching store bought eggs over the years. Wouldn’t be my choice for a source of fertile eggs but worth a try at the mo.

 

[Hipkiss1987]

Plenty of stories of people hatching store bought eggs over the years. Wouldn’t be my choice for a source of fertile eggs but worth a try at the mo.

Just found it interesting as an experiment.

I have a few chicks In brooder at the minute. Just thought if I could hatch a couple would be a nice addition

 

[suffolksmallholder]

So how do the farmed chickens have fertilised? What do you mean unusual birds?

From Quail to Emu but not chooks. So few folk keep cockerells. IMO.

SS

 

[Kidds]

Just found it interesting as an experiment.

I have a few chicks In brooder at the minute. Just thought if I could hatch a couple would be a nice addition

It would be a massive bonus at the mo. On radio today the presenter was saying he couldn’t remember last time he saw an egg.
I’m good for eggs right now, I have 18 geese. Massive pleasure today, son called round and brought grandson with him. Me and grandson went egg collecting in the goose field. It was like an Easter egg hunt. Made my day.

 

[Chickcatcher]

@Hipkiss1987
Trying to keep this constructive.
Femail Chickens (Hens) will lay eggs when they get old enough around 18wks (when I use to know things). Commercial retail egg laying flocks will in best parts lay one egg a day for quite a few weeks. Stand too be corrected but probably expected to be over 300 eggs a year. THEY DO NOT need a male (Cockerel) to be present.

Commercial Breeding egg laying operations will have a Cockerel present (I hesitate to offer the proportion to be 1 cock to X amount of hens. The eggs from these flocks will produce hatchable eggs, (most times very high percentages are hatchable)
Now most of the time breeding eggs will stay in the breeding market, but there are times when small eggs and when an oversupply of these normal sized eggs is experienced, they may end up in the retail trade and if incubated will hatch.
Clear as mud!

 

[Hipkiss1987]

@Hipkiss1987
Trying to keep this constructive.
Femail Chickens (Hens) will lay eggs when they get old enough around 18wks (when I use to know things). Commercial retail egg laying flocks will in best parts lay one egg a day for quite a few weeks. Stand too be corrected but probably expected to be over 300 eggs a year. THEY DO NOT need a male (Cockerel) to be present.

Commercial Breeding egg laying operations will have a Cockerel present (I hesitate to offer the proportion to be 1 cock to X amount of hens. The eggs from these flocks will produce hatchable eggs, (most times very high percentages are hatchable)
Now most of the time breeding eggs will stay in the breeding market, but there are times when small eggs and when an oversupply of these normal sized eggs is experienced, they may end up in the retail trade and if incubated will hatch.
Clear as mud!

Thank you. It’s worth putting a few in and see IMO. If it works cool. If not doesn’t matter. When things return to normal I could order in some proper eggs to hatch so I can make incubator worth while.

Very much looking forward to my chicks growing up and producing for me and the family

 

[Chickcatcher]

Break one first and see if it is fertile, again usually a blood spot in the egg contents.
Please experts correct me.

 

[Hipkiss1987]

Break one first and see if it is fertile, again usually a blood spot in the egg contents.
Please experts correct me.

If I break it I can’t incubate it

 

[Chickcatcher]

But that is only one wasted rather than how ever many you were going to try to incubate.
YOU could even have it for breakfast and not waste it.

 

[Hipkiss1987]

But that is only one wasted rather than how ever many you were going to try to incubate.
YOU could even have it for breakfast and not waste it.

I get the logic of course wouldn’t waste it. But just because one egg is fertilised doesn’t mean the next one would be. And visa versa

 

[Kidds]

Can’t you candle the eggs and eat any that aren’t developing?
That might be a ridiculous question but I’ve often wondered.

 

[Exfarmer]

Firstly the chances of purchasing a fertile egg is negligable, it used to be that hatching eggs were candled to see if they had an embryo, if not they would be sold generally for catering etc.
this practice was banned 20 years plus ago.
one local hatchery used to sell a lot to a guy who had a roadside stall selling these ”stale“ eggs as free range

 

[Hipkiss1987]

Firstly the chances of purchasing a fertile egg is negligable, it used to be that hatching eggs were candled to see if they had an embryo, if not they would be sold generally for catering etc.
this practice was banned 20 years plus ago.
one local hatchery used to sell a lot to a guy who had a roadside stall selling these ”stale“ eggs as free range

So when you crack an egg and there is a bit of a white membrane around the yolk is this not a sign that the egg could be fertile?

 

[Exfarmer]

So when you crack an egg and there is a bit of a white membrane around the yolk is this not a sign that the egg could be fertile?

no that is one of the membranes , if you google eggs on wiki there is a good diagram