chicks from store bought eggs?

Question

my friend claims she got organic eggs in the store and took them home. She says she put them in an incubator and hatched them. Is this really possible or is she just pulling my leg? She said she was able to do this because chicks don't develop while they are cold but if you put them in heat they will start to grow and then hatch. I would like to try it but am afraid I will just get rotten eggs.

Answer 1

hmmm, if they were refrigerated at any point i doubt they would hatch, but an even bigger flayw in this story is most store bought eggs are not fertilized. Makes them more apealing to consumers because fertilized eggs would begin to develop almost right away. Imagine cracking an egg onto the burner and seeing a beek pokeing out of it. Yuck. Weather they were organic or not really dosent matter.

Answer 2

A lot of these other answers are from very uneducated people. If you take a freshly laid egg, and refrigerate it you basically are keeping it in a dormant period. To help you understand, when a hen begins to lay she will lay 1 egg every day or every other day for about 2 weeks when she has a full clutch. Since there is no heat to help the eggs develop they lie dormant until the hen goes broody and sits on her eggs. Once she does they all develop at the same rate. Eggs are viable unless you freeze them, in fact when you order eggs from a hatchery it is recommended to keep them in the fridge until you put them in the incubator to keep them fresh. If the "organic" eggs were raised on a home farm it is likely they were fertilized. If so, the refrigeration only helps preserve the embryos, not kill them as others suggested. It is entirely possible that your friend is telling the truth. However, most eggs in a store are not fertilized and it's rare to get fertilized eggs, Your friend may just have gotten lucky. For better results check your newspaper for eggs and chicks for sale. If they have chicks, they have eggs and you can get eggs for a few cents each.

Answer 3

I know its not April, but your friend is playing an April fools joke on you.
Eggs we buy from store are not fertile and must be checked as such, even if one egg did escape this, the egg must remain at a constant temperature and be turned constantly, it takes less than one hour for the developing chick inside the egg to die, and that just cooling down.
If it was chilled in a fridge as store eggs are it would be over straight away

Answer 4

All you will get is rotten eggs.
Most store bought eggs are from chickens who are never exposed to a rooster.
You need to have fertile eggs to get chicks and they have to be kept warm or the embryo will die. You can not take them from the cold in the sotre and re-heat them and get them to hatch.

Answer 5

solid grief. the position did that instructor attend college? Does she have a practise certificate?I confident desire she isn't practise biology. perhaps at one time fertilized eggs were bought in shops as they got here from farms and that is conceivable some eggs were fertile.Now hens are raised in isolation and characteristic no get good of entry to to roosters. Chickens are literally not asexual. they're male (roosters) or woman (hens) The females mate with the roosters who fertilize the eggs. The fertile eggs are laid, incubated by the hens or incubator and Voila---chicks.

Answer 6

i don't know of storebought organic eggs are or not, but the eggs need to have been fertilized by a rooster first.

when i was younger, we had a hen who tried to hatch eggs. we only had a hen, and not a rooster - so, of course, the eggs would not hatch. we had to get fertilized eggs from someone who had both a hen and a rooster (i.e., the eggs had been fertilized). we "exchanged" those eggs with the ones that were in our hen's nest and she was able to hatch them.

think of it like the case of a human - women release eggs, but unless an egg is fertilized by a male, it will not develop into young.

Answer 7

No I don't think so....my sister worked at a hatchery years ago and said something like how they had to inject something in every egg to keep them from hatching.....that is why to this day, she can't eat eggs....(she is ok if they are in a cake or whatever, but to eat eggs for breakfast is out of the question) You could also just try that for yourself, but I think that all you will wind up with is a stinky mess!

Answer 8

if you keep an egg cold for as little as an hour it wont stop growing itWIIL DIE,if you have the right time and equiptment and yyou can keep it warm onthe way home than i wish you the best of luck.but do you know how often and carefully chicks have to be fed.if you hold them after feeding you can explod etheir stomachs.please research and be careful.

Answer 9

if they get cold they wont develop any further, so i would say no, not possible.

Answer 10

shes full of sh*t