chickens: has anybody really hatched eggs bought from waitrose?

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or is it another urban myth?

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i've seen two news reoports of different ones

cotswold legbar chicks both times

one wsa a farmers daughter who had an incubator

and the other a little lad who0 had quite a few tries

i think thye breed must be hard to tell girls from boys!

that's interesting - wondered about trying it! we have an incubator and an always broody hen

Possibly showing my ignorance here but aren;t girl hens kept well away from boy hens so eggs can't be fertilized?

well yes that what i thought but someone mentioned it yesterday on another thread and i just wondered about it. i suppose there may be a small chance with free range?

I think free range hens sometimes meet a rogue rampant rooster and the result is the patter of tiny feet! Bit like life really!

indeed . but if anyone has ever done it I'd love to know!

LOLOL
onyl waitrose eggs woudl hatch
i thhink theyd coem out in red cords and clicky rogues shouting

" oh Fenella DO gte the organic baguette it tastes so mcuh better" ( once hread in rl}

PMSL @ 'rogue rampant rooster'

lol
amd hteyd haev very swish hair

the result of roaming rogue rampant roosters! (There got a bit more alliteration in!)

omgnic ename

I suppose it shows that they're fresh

and some cute ducklings - bet they felt a bit bad about the 4 eggs they'd eaten before the girl put the last 2 into the incubator!!!!

They wear crocs in Waitrose.

lol

but my chickens wear dinky little crocs, natch. don't yours ?

lol
my feet look liek chicken feet

Have a look here for the destruction of some crocs - scroll dow to the youtube clips!

Tesco eggs will hatch too according to certain chickeny type forums I may have used

It only takes for a cock to get in you know! fnar...

i imagine that if it possible anyone's would. but with waitrose of course you know what kind of chickens they ought to be as they name their eggs!

You don't have to wait weeks to see if they are fertile either - if you incubate them for a week and then shine a light through tem you can see if fertile. The fertile ones 'grow' read veins from the nucleus.

I think Megalegs has done or is doing this at the moment. Bump for her later...

I've done this with duck eggs from my butcher.

This thread reminded me of it all so I'v eput some on to incubate this afternoon.

Maybe I could do a blog for you all, or would that be too tedious?

oh no please do!