Yeah, I've had that experience, too. For NYD hal I had to toss two entire sets of shipped eggs, but out of the other two sets I had 70% and 100% hatch rates!
I wanted to thank you for alerting us newbies to this method. I just used it for the NY D Hal. It is great! I had several saddle air cells from shipped eggs. I'm still waiting on word (not at home right now) but I may have had a 100%hatch on a set of eggs shipped from CA! I wish I'd known...
Thanks! :) That was my first attempt incubating, so I'm sure I did a lot of things wrong. Many of the shipped eggs I got had giant air cells, and I think I didn't have humidity high enough, and by the time hatch day came, the air cells took up almost half the shell. So, when hatch day came, I...
Wow! That is cool. Did you incubate the whole time in the cartons, or just for lockdown? Do you think that would make a difference? I incubated mine in little stands that I made, but then laid them on their side for lockdown, and had 3 that couldn't get out of the shell. One I assisted, the...