Fertile Hatching Eggs

All 12 eggs arrived intact in various nice colors. Some.pink, blue, white cream, brown. I let the eggs settle and warm for about 28 hours before putting in incubator. Candled at day 10 and found one with no signs of growth and seeping a tiny bit. We removed and cracked. It seems this one was not fertile. Candled on day 17 and found 3 others with signs of life. We did not crack these as they had been incubating for 17 days and probably yucky. On 2/12/25 our hatching began. We had 8 of the 12 hatch and now 3 days old and doing well. There is one darling extra cute chick. Looks to be a Silkie x Naked Neck. Cutest little ball of fluff with little poof head and cheeks naked neck and fluff ball body. The value for the $ imo is pretty darn good. Thank you to the seller.

​Eggs were in transit for five days instead of two. We waited 22 days, and not one egg hatched. When we cracked them open, not one was fertile. We now have to break a sad broody hen. Would not recommend or buy again.

Update: I incubated all eggs. 9 ended up developing. As previously mentioned, I was stressed about incubating dirty eggs. I’ve never done it prior to this. I was really prepared for any outcome. I am so happy to report that all 9 have hatched since early yesterday. They are all very healthy, healthy chicks! I would buy from this seller again! Very dirty eggs. All but two were covered in poop. I won’t debate whether or not you can incubate poop covered eggs or sanitize them. Everyone has a different opinion. I sell fertilized eggs as well and never send any that are covered in poop. (Probably because I keep all of my nesting boxes clean). I decided to incubate anyway. Only six are developing. Not the sellers fault. I must also mention that the eggs were well packaged and all arrived undamaged from shipping. I’ll be happy with any that hatch, just not the cleanliness of the eggs.

Overall pleased with the outcome. We had 8 of 12 hatch, one needed intervention as it was not positioned correctly in the egg. All are doing well and healthy on day 3. Shipping was around a week to MA which felt like too long but apparently didn’t have much affect on hatch success rate, it was packaged well and secure for shipment!

They didn’t come with any detail about what type eggs or how long to incubate. Just a purchase paper. We got a dozen and have one had two small eggs hatch and one regular size white egg hatch. So 3 out of 12 hatched. I wish we had more info on if they were all fertile when shipped, as well as the type of chicken that laid them, so we could know how long to leave them in the incubator. They all came well boxed and well packed. But I’m sad that only three hatched. If that’s normal then why not send more than just 12 eggs. I was hoping for more like 10-12 chicks 🐣.

2 hatch out of 12 eggs the rest was non fertile. It is not right for you to pay for fertile eggs and received non fertile ones. If you want to sell your product you need to know what you are selling.

Great hatch rate, diversity in eggs and healthy chicks. I’m very impressed. Will buy again!

Perfectly packaged but only 1 chicken hatched out of 12 eggs and little doubt about the freshness of the eggs since they were shipped the moment I ordered while I would think it takes a while to collect fresh eggs from the coop(s). Also it was said that delivery would be taking more than a week while I had the eggs delivered 2 days after I place my order… Only 4 were fertilised of which one eventually came out.