EDIT: These chicks moved away from me to a nice farm and to their new owner when they were three weeks old. The new owner, a 13 year old responsible farm boy, feed them high quality chick feed, kept them under heat lamps for several weeks, took them out by hand and kept an eye on them as they explored the world around the barn and watched them eat grass/insects, and he sent me pictures and updates until they were fully adult. It turns out they were both female, and they were introduced to the flock of hens they had with great success.
Story:
This is my new baby chickens that I hatched a few days ago in my new incubator. They are named, yeah, you guessed it right, Jiraiya and Sai, named after two characters from the anime Naruto.
They are hatched from ordinary food eggs, straight from my fridge and bought in an ordinary store, out of the seven eggs I put in the incubator only two were fertilized. I am really glad that they made it all through their development, despite of everything they have had against them.
They love sleeping in my hands, and they enjoy human company. I have already found a good home for them since I can not keep them myself, even though the rules for this apartment states that I can if they don't disturb my neighbors, I think it's best for them to live on a farm, being able to go outside and be with other hens and roosters.
They will stay 2-3 weeks with me, until they are strong enough to move to a new environment safely and have put on some feathers :)
- NOTE - You will NEVER find a fetus or a baby chick in a food egg from the store, HOWEVER read this please:
This is how it works most of the time, in most places.
Some people have big hatcheries, where they hatch chickens that will go too the food industry and the egg industry. These two groups are genetically different from each other, they look different, grow differently, and work differently.
The broilers, the chickens breed for meat, get big and chunky really fast, but the egg laying industry chicks stay slim, they do however lay egg at a higher rate then the broilers parents do.
The broilers can be either gender, but the chicks that are sold to the egg laying industry have to be all female. Therefor the male chicks are identified at a young age and disposed of, a small percent used for cat and dog food, but most of them just get disposed of.
The hen chicks, as they reach a egg laying productive age, are sold to the egg industry, HOWEVER, a few male chicks sometimes get past the identification process, leaving maybe one rooster in a room of 600 hens. (he is one lucky guy I guess)
It is impossible to catch a white rooster among 600 white hens, because they are not used to humans close to them, so if you go in you have panicking hens running all over the place, and you can not find the rooster. Some rooms have 400-1200 hens in the same room, so catching one rooster in such a group is not possible.
YOU WILL MOST LIKELY NOT FIND A DEVELOPED FETUS IN A 'FOOD EGG'.
The reason for this is as follows: When the egg yolk releases inside the hen, and travels down through her to become an egg, sometimes a few drops of blood might come with it. The egg facility scans all eggs for this, and IF there would be a fetus in an egg, this would also be removed with the 'blod drop' eggs.
Anyone that have ever had a group of hens and a rooster and eaten the eggs have eaten fertilized eggs, it's just two egg cells instead of one, and is completely safe and will taste/look no different from an unfertilized egg.
I am glad that these two made it out ok, and I love them so much already. I hope and pray that their parents lived a decent life and that they die a not so horrible death.
Story:
This is my new baby chickens that I hatched a few days ago in my new incubator. They are named, yeah, you guessed it right, Jiraiya and Sai, named after two characters from the anime Naruto.
They are hatched from ordinary food eggs, straight from my fridge and bought in an ordinary store, out of the seven eggs I put in the incubator only two were fertilized. I am really glad that they made it all through their development, despite of everything they have had against them.
They love sleeping in my hands, and they enjoy human company. I have already found a good home for them since I can not keep them myself, even though the rules for this apartment states that I can if they don't disturb my neighbors, I think it's best for them to live on a farm, being able to go outside and be with other hens and roosters.
They will stay 2-3 weeks with me, until they are strong enough to move to a new environment safely and have put on some feathers :)
- NOTE - You will NEVER find a fetus or a baby chick in a food egg from the store, HOWEVER read this please:
This is how it works most of the time, in most places.
Some people have big hatcheries, where they hatch chickens that will go too the food industry and the egg industry. These two groups are genetically different from each other, they look different, grow differently, and work differently.
The broilers, the chickens breed for meat, get big and chunky really fast, but the egg laying industry chicks stay slim, they do however lay egg at a higher rate then the broilers parents do.
The broilers can be either gender, but the chicks that are sold to the egg laying industry have to be all female. Therefor the male chicks are identified at a young age and disposed of, a small percent used for cat and dog food, but most of them just get disposed of.
The hen chicks, as they reach a egg laying productive age, are sold to the egg industry, HOWEVER, a few male chicks sometimes get past the identification process, leaving maybe one rooster in a room of 600 hens. (he is one lucky guy I guess)
It is impossible to catch a white rooster among 600 white hens, because they are not used to humans close to them, so if you go in you have panicking hens running all over the place, and you can not find the rooster. Some rooms have 400-1200 hens in the same room, so catching one rooster in such a group is not possible.
YOU WILL MOST LIKELY NOT FIND A DEVELOPED FETUS IN A 'FOOD EGG'.
The reason for this is as follows: When the egg yolk releases inside the hen, and travels down through her to become an egg, sometimes a few drops of blood might come with it. The egg facility scans all eggs for this, and IF there would be a fetus in an egg, this would also be removed with the 'blod drop' eggs.
Anyone that have ever had a group of hens and a rooster and eaten the eggs have eaten fertilized eggs, it's just two egg cells instead of one, and is completely safe and will taste/look no different from an unfertilized egg.
I am glad that these two made it out ok, and I love them so much already. I hope and pray that their parents lived a decent life and that they die a not so horrible death.
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Min kompis filmade när den första kläcktes, både hon och jag bara; SQUUUUUUUUUEEEEELLLLL!!!! xD Det var helt sjukt spännande den halvtimmen det tog innan den var helt ute xD Första gången jag hade handen under värmelampan för att justera vattenskålen så hoppade han rakt ner i handen på mig och la sig för att sova i handen OwO Jag och mina kompisar hade han i händerna hela kvällen, han torkade av kroppskontakt, det var så gulligt, så så så så gulligt.
At first I didn't. I put the eggs in, and half a week-one week later I used a special flashlight that is made to light up eggs. When you put light through the shell you can easily see the baby and the blood vessels. So after a little more then one week I got rid of the non fertile eggs, since leaving them will make them rot, and they might contaminate the healthy eggs, or even explode as the gases builds up.
No, this once was because I had just bought the incubator, and had to try it out to make sure there was no defect in it. I rather practice on assumed infertile eggs, to check the heat control, moisture, turning functions etc, than doing the same 'test' on important breeding eggs. This time however, I was surprised to find two of the eggs fertile, and instead of killing them of after one week I gave them a chance at life and let them develop. It came as a surprise, but a nice one. It turned out to be two hens, one of them with the most wonderful temperament, and they now live on a farm a few kilometers from here, where they are treated like pets, allowed to go outside and all that. A good home, I was pleased to find it for them.
I've heard of others that have been able to hatch food eggs, but I didn't assume that one, and absolutely not two, from my fridge would be able to develop.
I've heard of others that have been able to hatch food eggs, but I didn't assume that one, and absolutely not two, from my fridge would be able to develop.
Yeah, Jiraiya had the most amazing personality. She is so sweet, and just love people, I'm truly glad to have been given the chance to be her mother :) She loved to sit it my hand and sleep, the last 20 minutes I spent with her she was doing just that, even though she was a big three week old chicken. I truly wish I could have kept her, she may have been an egglaying hybrid, but she had everything I'm looking for in breeding stock, if I had a farm I would not have given her away.
I used to own a couple chickens, only had one hen that liked people, but she was a ditz and loved everyone and everything. She got out of her pen one day and tried to make friends with a goat owned by one of my neighbors, and alas he killed her :/ sold the rest of my coup to a friend and quit messing with them after that.
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