• Gravy
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      • If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 11:28AM
      • Gravy
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      • Assuming the egg wasn't rotten or anything.
    • Simple
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 11:38AM - in reply to Gravy
      • Simple
      • No. Hens lay eggs without them being fertilized. Factory farmed eggs have 0% chance of being exposed to a rooster.
    • No Gravy
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 11:40AM - in reply to Gravy
      • No Gravy
      • Gravy wrote:

        Assuming the egg wasn't rotten or anything.

        gosh you are one stupid MF'r
    • LoneStarXC
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      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 11:55AM - in reply to Gravy
      • LoneStarXC
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      • No.
    • Not A Therapist...
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 11:57AM - in reply to LoneStarXC
      • Not A Therapist...
      • 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.

        Moran.
    • Drainthefecesswamp
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 11:59AM - in reply to LoneStarXC
      • Drainthefecesswamp
      • 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.
    • Drainthefecesswamp
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 12:02PM - in reply to Drainthefecesswamp
      • Drainthefecesswamp
      • 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.
    • operatorer
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 12:08PM - in reply to Gravy
      • operatorer
      • Gravy wrote:

        Assuming the egg wasn't rotten or anything.

        moron
    • Chicken Lady
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 12:44PM - in reply to Drainthefecesswamp
      • Chicken Lady
      • 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.
    • Fertilizer
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 12:46PM - in reply to Drainthefecesswamp
      • Fertilizer
      • 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?
    • rippp
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 12:47PM - in reply to Fertilizer
      • rippp
      • Which came first the egg or the incubator?
    • Star
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      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 12:52PM - in reply to Gravy
      • Star
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      • You have to have sex with the chicken

    • Drainthefecesswamp
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 2:23PM - in reply to Chicken Lady
      • Drainthefecesswamp
      • 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.
    • Eugenics expert
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 2:29PM - in reply to Simple
      • Eugenics expert
      • 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.

    • eggspecificity
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 3:19PM - in reply to Gravy
      • eggspecificity
      • Not if it's a duck or alligator egg.
    • Waly
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 4:26PM - in reply to operatorer
      • Waly
      • operatorer wrote:

        Gravy wrote:

        Assuming the egg wasn't rotten or anything.

        moron

        Maran

    • would this work?
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 5:49PM - in reply to Simple
      • would this work?
      • 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?
    • trollbeme
      • RE: If you bought an egg at a grocery store and incubated it would you grow a chicken? 1/2/2019 5:58PM - in reply to would this work?
      • trollbeme
      • No, but if you incubated a partridge egg you might grow a pear tree.