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Fair warning: My almost out of eggs isn't likely your almost out of eggs. However, I don't have a single duck nor chicken egg in the fridge. With these damn polar bears stirring up a vortex, my yardbirds are pretty much laying frozen eggs. Every single one I bring in is either rock solid or cracked. Those go straight to the dogs.

My air hole on the quail drinker froze shut a couple days ago meaning the drinker-nipples wouldn't work. I sorted that out, but the heater bulb burned out that night. They went almost 2 days with presumably only a 30 minute period with liquid water. No eggs for 2 days. Only 1 egg yesterday. I gave them a bag of popcorn and a large snowball to make up for it.

I'm sitting on maybe 20 quail eggs in the fridge. It's turning into The Road over here. I blame the jews.

Fair warning: *My* almost out of eggs isn't likely *your* almost out of eggs. However, I don't have a single duck nor chicken egg in the fridge. With these damn polar bears stirring up a vortex, my yardbirds are pretty much laying frozen eggs. Every single one I bring in is either rock solid or cracked. Those go straight to the dogs. My air hole on the quail drinker froze shut a couple days ago meaning the drinker-nipples wouldn't work. I sorted that out, but the heater bulb burned out that night. They went almost 2 days with presumably only a 30 minute period with liquid water. No eggs for 2 days. Only 1 egg yesterday. I gave them a bag of popcorn and a large snowball to make up for it. I'm sitting on *maybe* 20 quail eggs in the fridge. It's turning into The Road over here. I blame the jews.

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Why do you give the dogs the frozen eggs?

Believe it or not I'm hatching eggs that have been frozen. Some are at two weeks and the others are almost a week. Candling indicates they're fine. I was doing it as an experiment, but I just searched and found someone else who did the same, except her temperatures were -30* when her eggs froze. Mine were at 18* and 22*.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/frozen-eggs-hatching.130155/

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Most my frozen eggs are frozen, frozen. Split shells. Those go to the dogs. I just don't really want to eat an egg of the ground with ooze coming out as it thaws lol.

Women freeze their eggs, so as long as the shell was ok, I believe they'd possibly hatch. Worst case scenario, you get a bunch of Downs syndrome ducks lol.

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Lol downs ducks.

I didn't realize they were all cracked. Wonder why it's cracking them!

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Pretty sure Downs ducks is just the standard for pekins, anyway. Mine seems dumber than the campbells. Freezing to the ground doesn't help. Subzero temps crack eggs, I guess.