Luck with shipped eggs for hatching - Page 2

I've ranged from 0% to 11 out of 13 that made it to the hatcher.  It's a toss of the dice each time.

You just take your chances with shipped eggs....sometimes great hatches, sometimes nothing....

The Postal Service uses UPS and Fedex planes to transport alot of their shipments so I don't think they'd be any easier. Not to mention half the time UPS, Fedex, and DHL let the postal service deliver them the last part of the trip anyway.

Agreed. 

My first batch of shipped eggs...and there was a 0% hatch rate.  One pipped the shell, poor thing, but didn't make it any further. 

My second batch was much better at about 70%. 
I have week-old chicks...10 of 'em...running around my brooder.

How can you "see" that the incubating eggs are fertile without cracking them open?

You do what they call  " Candle "  the egg with  egg candeler or a flashlight.  I cut a hole in a paperplate size of egg... put the egg on the plate using the light.. go into  dark closet or a place thats dark see if you can anything veins... air cell... forming bird.. some only suggest on day 7 .. 10.. once before lockdown.. also some do it alot  however you risk breaking everytime you candle.  I hope this helps Good Luck and BOY IS IT COOL> FUN> EXCITING !!!!

My first and only hatch so far I had a 50% hatch rate of completely all different chicks.

I ship eggs from Ebay sales  all the time through USPS priority and  have only  had 1  box  that arrived to buyer with broken eggs and that was years ago it was more my fault for not packing good enough and the biggest mistake  people make is  they don't  mark all around  the box  " Fragile Hatching Eggs inside " I too wrap each egg  in bubble wrap and  place them in egg cartons and then I wrap the egg carton in bubble wrap making sure  that nothing is going to shift  around in the box during transportation. My buyers so far have all had  pretty good luck and  high % hatch rate but there is always some that for whatever reason have bad luck.

Check this website  you will enjoy these pictures... they will teach you alot and are very helpful as to what to look for  in an egg:

http://shilala.homestead.com/candling.html