chickens: has anybody really hatched eggs bought from waitrose?

[ska]

or is it another urban myth?

This has made me want to start incubating eggs, and am currently lookin on ebay as we speak!

but we hatched some once and got 4 cockerels and they had to 'go away' as we'd promised neighbours not to have cocks. what do you do with unwanted cockerels?

i want the maran eggs!

Oh do start a blog!

Mine are all set and have sorted the humidity and temp, which is slightly different for chicken eggs as opposed to duck.

Will start blog soon - have been investigating blog options this eve.

We hatched all female ducks so not had to deal with getting rid of unwanted males - 'cept in the human (as opposed to humane!) sense.

Ahhh the wit!

Do you have to have proper incubators to do this then?

You do really SS. You need to keep the tempt very consistent along with high humidity which is difficult to achieve in a regular box.

Cheap incubators are effective though.

My blog address is dippyegg.wordpress.com but I've not written anything yet.

Will do photos and stuff later.

I'm hatching 6 hen's eggs.

we hatched under abroody and we have a small incubator (were given this as a hand me down) which a friend used. in each case males got hatched though which is a problem as we're in the country but not the wilds. Will check the blog!!

Ooo I really want to do this but 1, I dont have an incubator and 2, I dont think my dogs would be very impressed.

I'm still waiting to try this but my broody hen has unbroodied herself!!

Will read rest of thread properly now -

i have just put our broody in isolation and may send dh out for eggs from waitrose later! Been a bit busy with sick child so haven't done anything yet. Might try ebay for eggs tho'!