➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Morrigan]

The first time (Eggs S and W):
Came home.
Sat in fridge for a few hours.
Then sat on the counter for a few hours while I figured out ghetto bator.


Should I not have put them straight into a warm bator when I got these 3 home?

Or maybe its the sitting around part? I know when you incubate shipped eggs you are supposed to let them settle for a day before putting them in the incubator. Now, obviously those are eggs in which development has not begun, but I wonder if there is something to letting the little egg contents reorient after the bumping around of getting to the store?

 

[Kiki]

Or maybe its the sitting around part? I know when you incubate shipped eggs you are supposed to let them settle for a day before putting them in the incubator. Now, obviously those are eggs in which development has not begun, but I wonder if there is something to letting the little egg contents reorient after the bumping around of getting to the store?

I have no idea.
But I am pretty sure the quicker they get back into a bator the better.
Right?

I'm not trashing them yet.
I hope they come to life! (at least one)

 

[Morrigan]

Do you have any idea how fresh off the truck the eggs you got the first time were?

 

[debid]

The whole process of them getting to the store is entirely out of your control. It could be that the new shipment had rougher handling or something. And, are we entirely sure the old stock wasn't placed on top of the new stock? Lots of places do that.

 

[Morrigan]

The whole process of them getting to the store is entirely out of your control. It could be that the new shipment had rougher handling or something. And, are we entirely sure the old stock wasn't placed on top of the new stock? Lots of places do that.

So, she needs to go back and candle some more?

 

[Kiki]

Do you have any idea how fresh off the truck the eggs you got the first time were?

I had bought them on a Friday.
The man says they are delivered weekly on Thursdays.

 

[Kiki]

The whole process of them getting to the store is entirely out of your control. It could be that the new shipment had rougher handling or something. And, are we entirely sure the old stock wasn't placed on top of the new stock? Lots of places do that.

So I am going to go back in a little bit and get to eggs from the bottom rack.
The Man might get mad that I move all his eggs around but too bad.

 

[debid]

So, she needs to go back and candle some more?

I guess that I'd stand there candling until I saw movement and only take those... but then things are always easier said than done.

 

[Kiki]

I guess that I'd stand there candling until I saw movement and only take those... but then things are always easier said than done.

I was SO embarrassed yesterday with the flashlight.
I looked really quick but not even for movement...just veins.

 

[debid]

I was SO embarrassed yesterday with the flashlight.
I looked really quick but not even for movement...just veins.

I think the man PROBABLY has guessed by now that you're interested in balut for hatching rather than eating. If that helps at all.