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I'm just wondering, how long can u store fertile eggs, before incubation?

I read lots of forums on hatching geese, including the hatching geese 101, and they all suggested, having it at 30% until lockdown, and then to bring it up to 70%, but i have been spraying them and cooloing them everyday, as recommended in the hatching geese 101 thread, and gold silkies look...

I was planning on getting 12 silkie eggs, but after looking at the birds from a seller of the eggs online, now the 12 egg, have turned into 24 lol 5 white, 5 black, 5 gold, 5 splash and 4 cuckoo!! And i am going to be fixing up my pen soon, making it more secure etc, its all money at the minute...

Its ok another one has pipped and thankyou for the encouragement

So i have another 8 eggs (i think) and i candled them and it doesn't look like any of them have internally pipped tomorrow is hatch day and i have already got 2 ducklings and 10 chicks, is this still ok is there a chance they might hatch :/? I cant really see movement but then again thy are...

Here are some pics :) This is lucky :) And this is daffy They're all snuggled up ready for bed in an old pair of my boxers ahaha

The last one hatched and is walking around with daffy i decided to name him lucky :D

Is it normal for a duck to hatch foot first ?

Is it normal for a duck to come out if his shell foot first ?

One hatched!!!! I woke up and my duck had just got out his leg was still in the shell he trying to walk around :D the other two are still trying :D

One of the ducks has made a bigger hole and now u can see it's beak :D

My ducks are hatching, should i mist them i haven't misted them the whole time but would it help and if so, don't i just spray a little bit on the whole egg, and how often should i do it:) thanks

I heard a bit of peeping, and the hole is bigger now and I can see it's beak move and the other one I saw moving has also pipped and I had candles the 3rd one and it has internally pipped :D

Going into lockdown tomorrow Went into turn it one last time and a duck has pipped :D!!!!!!!!!! It's only day 24!!

So i candled all my eggs, and there was one with the ring of death, and 16 that were infertile, or just didn't grow, and that leaves me with 3 duck eggs, and 24 chick eggs :) although there is one which i cant find ahaha i have it wrote down on a note pad (i numbered them all) and i couldn't see...

Ok :D thanks :)

I got a rooster last Wednesday, it was a red sex link, and it was taken back because they guy accidentally gave me his prize rooster, ahahah :lol: but then on Friday I got a new one, it is a white leghorn,and it has been in with them since Friday, so today I cracked open one if my eggs to make...