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How long Do Fertile Eggs last?

post #1 of 6
7/19/10 at 12:13pm
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I was wondering long does a fertile egg last before setting in incubator.
I need to send some eggs to my dads cousin in PA and right now only 1 pair is laying everyone else kind of stopped.
I was told only 5 days and then I heard more. I will be flying them on the plane with me next week in a special made box.
and I wasnt to know how many days before I can start to collect?

anyone help please?

Thank you!!

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post #2 of 6
7/19/10 at 1:22pm

you willget all kinds of answers. myself, nothing over 10 days. good luck

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home to a wonderful wife, two boys, 19 light brahmas, 7 cuckoo marans, 18 guineas, 2 white silkies, 12 muscovy ducks, 1 dog, 1 cat, chicks, and keets hatching all the time. hatching eggs also

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post #3 of 6
7/19/10 at 2:27pm
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Thank You Very much!!

I will start to collect today! that will be 9 days. Thank you again!!

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post #4 of 6
7/19/10 at 2:32pm

Nine or ten days should be fine.  This link talks about turning them and gives other good info on how best to store them.  Good luck!

Texas A&M Incubation site
http://gallus.tamu.edu/library/extpublications/b6092.pdf

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought....Abraham Lincoln (Freedom carries responsibility)

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.....Judge Learned Hand  (The more sure your are that your way is the only right way, the more likely you are wrong.)
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post #5 of 6
7/19/10 at 5:35pm

I was always told at the 11th day, the egg starts to bread down..so 10 days or under.

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post #6 of 6
7/19/10 at 5:43pm

I think the max is around 7 day's  lala But...I dunno.I rarely throw out any egg    if under 10 day's old will inc. and check for fertility at around  day 9-12 if I have room in this crappy inc. baaaa.I hatched 9 out of 12 turkey egg's once and well they only lay an egg a day like chickens and one egg got broken so...She had hidden nest and probably would have deposited a couple more before actualy sitting them.Shipping is hard on egg's all the bouncing around so it does decrease the hatchibility.

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