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« on: May 26, 2008, 15:11 »
what makes a fertile egg? I've been reading some of the threads in the other section, on incubators etc. And a couple of other sites.

Please remember i'm new to chickens..
I know they sell fetile eggs on ebay.. so that makes me assumer you need a cockerel... and he 'helps' the hen make a fertile egg...

But a site i was reading said a fertile egg is an egg kept at a certain (warm) temp.

Now i know that if an egg isn't 'sat on' to be kept warm it dies.

But if you don't have a cockerel and put an egg in an incubator would it grow?  :?

So if you don't have a cockerel and have a broody hen who sits on her eggs.. will she get chicks? or is she being daft?

See.. told you i was new! lol and need to learn more!

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« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2008, 15:14 »
to grow a baby chick in an egg.

a cockerel needs to have been playing piggy backs with the hens.

same ingredients as a human egg to grow into a baby.... if you get what i mean  :roll:

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« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2008, 15:14 »
Yes it would. The cock fertilises by doin IT with the hen and then her eggies are fertilised :oops: So whether under broody or in incy the eggies hopefully hatch :wink:  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2008, 15:16 »
Babes reply so much better :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
oh by the way, you can collect eggies for up to a week and then put them in the incy or under broody, they start to develop as soon as the get warm :wink:

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« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2008, 15:16 »
Ahh see now that's what i thought.. but then the site i saw made it sound like a egg is an egg..

Thanks for clearing that up for me! :lol:
I'm not dumb ALL the time! ;)

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« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2008, 15:20 »
Gooseberry bush + Stork = baby

Obviously

Rob  :roll:

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« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2008, 15:21 »
So thats why you can buy them off ebay then - thought maybe they keep them warm in the post... like tropical fish :) are packaged with heat packs. :lol:

And Rob.. you need to read up on the birds and the bee's.. they've got a good website now! ;) :lol:

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« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2008, 15:22 »
:lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

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« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2008, 15:26 »
:oops:  Oh that !!!  :shock:

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Porffor

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« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2008, 16:51 »
:lol: :lol: :lol:

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« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2008, 18:08 »
Oh no! I dug my gooseberry bush up - I may never have chickies!!! :cry:  :cry:

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Porffor

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« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2008, 18:29 »
:lol:

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« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2008, 19:22 »
Quote from: "poultrygeist"
Gooseberry bush + Stork = baby

Obviously

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I had to go to school to see what my daughter will be getting for sex ed after half term and believe me it WASN'T like that   :shock:

I came out feeling quite ill. It was so graffic. Do grown ups REALLY do that?    :shock:  :lol:

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« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2008, 19:23 »
ooh dear! how old is she? we only had sex ed at school once a class mate was pregnant!  :shock: We were nearly 16.  :roll:

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« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2008, 19:34 »
new to this, how long do they live for? :roll:


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