Does anybody have info or research if it is possible to hatch frozen fertile chicken egg, and what is maximum storage time, and storage temperature below 0c, for hatching eggs.
I read that main problem is cracking as volume of ICE rise, once water from egg become ice, but I was unable to find documents does anybody done research about ultra low freezing, and month or 3 months storage, and than hatching ?
There is a quite old (1949), extensive handbook: The Avian Egg by Romanoff and Romanoff, that might contain this type of information.
It is also known that storing the fertilized eggs for hatching under degrees below physiological zero (68) Fahrenheit leads to stopping the growth of the embryo cells. And that the best storage period is not more than 7 days and that the best storage temperature is 10-13 ° C
An excellent question, but it is known that stopping the embryonic divisions under the physiological zero temperature should not exceed 10 days, which leads to a decrease in the rate of fetal growth, so what if the reduction is by freezing
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