How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Eggs

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Re: [CHICKENS-101] Eggs - Fertile last

It mostly depends on how they are stored. Under ideal conditions maybe about two weeks. Ideal conditions would be cool room temperature, with turning the eggs twice a day. When a hen is getting ready to go broody, she will lay a clutch of eggs, one a day until she starts to set. The clutch may contain as many as a dozen eggs. Before she starts to set, the earlier laid eggs just sit in the nest without being incubated.

Kathy

In a message dated 7/29/2010 8:40:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time, cryptidwolf@gmail.com writes:

Curious. Let's say someone gives you fertile eggs without whipping
them at your head.
Now lets say you don't have an incubator or a Broody chicken.
Just how long will an egg stay fresh before you can't get it incubated
somehow?
If my Hens lay and abandon a bunch of eggs today, how long do I have?

Mike -- USA zone 6b. 8 Chickens, 2 Rabbits, 2 Ducks. Spell check brought to you by the Greater Oklahoma-Arkansas Higher Learning Center. Helping inbred, snaggle-toothed idiots for over 100 years.

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