The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

[bamachicks8]

Great video thanks for sharing

 

[ronott1]

Love the miracle of life... great video.

I really love seeing them move around in the egg. This is also the first hatch in the Octagon and it is going very well so far.

Great video thanks for sharing

Your Welcome!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

You have the bigger octagon, though, right?

I have the Octo Eco 20. It "holds 24 eggs"... I should have gotten the bigger one. Who knew I'd love hatching this much. However, mostly I'm glad I don't have the bigger one, when it comes time to find room for all the babies.

 

[ronott1]

You have the bigger octagon, though, right?

I have the Octo Eco 20. It "holds 24 eggs"... I should have gotten the bigger one. Who knew I'd love hatching this much. However, mostly I'm glad I don't have the bigger one, when it comes time to find room for all the babies.

Yes, I have 34 egg in there now; the Wisher Hatch, Blue Eggs from UofA and Crele Penedesencas were added last night. I plan on hatching in one of the Genesis 1588s since there is plenty of room in there.

Later this year I will be hatching SG Dorkngs for a local Breeder and will also be hatching for a local egg farm. He is getting araucana eggs from Shannon. I love to hatch for others--that way I get to feed my addiction and do not have to worry about figuring out what to do with them.

 

[Wisher1000]

Hola Pollo's!

Well, Bama1's hen is refusing to play nice so I am shipping her eggs to Montana! This time I took pics!

The eggs I have been collecting this past weekend. I saved all the dark eggs and the nicest blue ones and made sure to turn them as I compiled my batch. I put them in this carton and used the "prop and swap" method. I placed one end of the egg carton up on the egg basket that sits on the counter in my kitchen and swaped ends several times a day. I keep it really cool (60*-63*) in our house and none of these eggs are over three days past date layed. Here you see the things I used. I bought a 17" x 7' roll of bubble wrap ($1.98) at Walmart. I liked it because I could cut it into thirds and use that width to wrap the eggs. I didn't like the bubbles, they were too small and the plastic was too flimsy. I will look for a better quality of bubble wrap next time. The three darkest eggs are already wrapped in this pic.

ETA: the correct BYC friend's name!

 

[ronott1]

Hola Pollo's!

Well, Bamachicks8's hen is refusing to play nice so I am shipping her eggs to Montana! This time I took pics!

The eggs I have been collecting this past weekend. I saved all the dark eggs and the nicest blue ones and made sure to turn them as I compiled my batch. I put them in this carton and used the "prop and swap" method. I placed one end of the egg carton up on the egg basket that sits on the counter in my kitchen and swaped ends several times a day. I keep it really cool (60*-63*) in our house and none of these eggs are over three days past date layed. Here you see the things I used. I bought a 17" x 7" roll of bubble wrap ($1.98) at Walmart. I liked it because I could cut it into thirds and use that width to wrap the eggs. I didn't like the bubbles, they were too small and the plastic was too flimsy. I will look for a better quality of bubble wrap next time. The three darkest eggs are already wrapped in this pic.

Looks good!

 

[Wisher1000]

I cut strips of bubble wrap to go around the egg twice (about 11"-12".) I paid close attention to which end of the egg was the air cell or big end. I marked the outside of the bubble wrap so that I could pack them with that end up. I believe it has a positive affect on the hatch rate.


When I taped them, I pulled a bit of tension on the end of the strip above the egg and...



...below the egg so that the egg would not slip down in the bubble wrap tube. I left the ends open to allow for air to get to the egg and to let the extra serve as a spring for the egg to bounce on. Here are all the eggs wrapped and ready to pack.

 

[Wisher1000]

I used two boxes. The inside box is one I get K-Cups in it is just the right size for four rows of four eggs and packing around them. I put a generous amount of shredded paper in the bottom of the box then nestled the eggs in toward the center as far as I could. I then filled any voids I found between the eggs or around the outside with more shredded paper. Notice that all the arrows are pointing up?



I then filled the space in the top of the box with paper and gently packed it down enough to close the box.

 

[Wisher1000]

I taped the box closed and set it aside. Next, I put more shredded paper in the bottom of the outside box. I used a box that copy paper comes in. I then put the boxed eggs inside the larger box. There was not as much room on the sides as I would have liked, but I used a ruler to pack the paper along the sides and filled the ends up well. I also put paper on top of the interior box before I put the top on the outside box.



Finally, I reinforced the seams of the box and the corners with tape and wrapped the tape around each end so that the top would be secure. I put a piece of paper on top of the box with the mailing label and instructions on top and covered it in clear tape. It reads,

Attention Postmaster:
Please call 555-555-5555 for immediate customer pick-up. <-- This line is highlighted in day-glo yellow!



I may have gotten a bit happy with the tape.

 

[superchemicalgirl]