If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken?
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Assuming the egg wasn't rotten or anything.
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No. Hens lay eggs without them being fertilized. Factory farmed eggs have 0% chance of being exposed to a rooster.
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Gravy wrote:
Assuming the egg wasn't rotten or anything.
gosh you are one stupid MF'r -
No.
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Yes, you can!!!!
I have a friend who did it.
He was skeptical at first, but was able to do it. Probably cost him about $300 or so for all the equipment, but he was able to do it. You should give it a try.
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Not entirely true. People have successfully done this with free range eggs. Some brands will have none that are viable, but some brands will have a small percentage still viable even after all that refrigeration.
Keep in mind how eggs are hatched: first the chicken lays one per day and does not sit on them, so they are at ambient temperature. Only after a full clutch has been laid does she go broody and incubate them. So they are designed to survive a week or so at temperatures. -
Here is a link to some successful results (if very low hatch rates count as a success).
Anyway, if you really want to hatch eggs, you can buy eggs from hatcheries online or even on ebay. I got mine from Ebay. The hatch rate was 50% or me, the shipping process reduces the success rate, but not as badly as if it were in a grocery store shelf for weeks. -
Gravy wrote:
Assuming the egg wasn't rotten or anything.
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Drainthefecesswamp wrote:
Not entirely true. People have successfully done this with free range eggs. Some brands will have none that are viable, but some brands will have a small percentage still viable even after all that refrigeration.
Keep in mind how eggs are hatched: first the chicken lays one per day and does not sit on them, so they are at ambient temperature. Only after a full clutch has been laid does she go broody and incubate them. So they are designed to survive a week or so at temperatures.
Would those eggs typically be at the grocery store? You might get some at a farm market or a roadside stand/house.
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So you can't hatch these eggs because they haven't been fertilized?
What if you fertilized an egg you got at the grocery store, could you hatch it?
What would you get, a chicken? a man? some kind of chicken man? or some kind of man chicken? -
Which came first the egg or the incubator?
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You have to have sex with the chicken
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nasd
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Chicken Lady wrote:
Drainthefecesswamp wrote:
Not entirely true. People have successfully done this with free range eggs. Some brands will have none that are viable, but some brands will have a small percentage still viable even after all that refrigeration.
Keep in mind how eggs are hatched: first the chicken lays one per day and does not sit on them, so they are at ambient temperature. Only after a full clutch has been laid does she go broody and incubate them. So they are designed to survive a week or so at temperatures.
Would those eggs typically be at the grocery store? You might get some at a farm market or a roadside stand/house.
If you go to that link you'll see a person hatched eggs from trader Joe's. -
I suspect if you rub one out on a dozen grocery store eggs, one could possibly create a race of half human half chicken monsters.
Simple wrote:
No. Hens lay eggs without them being fertilized. Factory farmed eggs have 0% chance of being exposed to a rooster.
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Not if it's a duck or alligator egg.
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operatorer wrote:
Gravy wrote:
Assuming the egg wasn't rotten or anything.
moron
Maran
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Simple wrote:
No. Hens lay eggs without them being fertilized. Factory farmed eggs have 0% chance of being exposed to a rooster.
What if you fertilize them yourself? -
No, but if you incubated a partridge egg you might grow a pear tree.
