We are talking about 100% hatch rates. If you want to buy $10 eggs and get a 5% hatch by all means buy old eggs. Published studies show turkey hatch rates start to plummet at 7 days at 60 deg. I too have hatched 20 day old eggs but had to throw over half of them out in the process and that was on a turner at proper temperature. I only hatch 90 peachicks per year and ship about 40 peafowl eggs. I would love to hear from someone here that got 90-100% hatch on 8 day old SHIPPED eggs because I am doing something wrong if they can. I only get those percentages at home on 5 day old 58deg on turner.
100% hatch rate on shipped eggs!
- Thread starter Cindysid
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I must have missed something, who recommended buying old eggs?
Nobody recommended buying old eggs. I simply questioned the statement that "Eggs remain viable for 7 days", since that has not been my experience.
Who told you eggs remain viable 7 days? I can attest that most of the eggs I set are 10-12 days old and they are still as viable as the ones that are under 7 days old. I think casportpony hatched one that was 26 days old when set. Now these are not shipped eggs, however one batch of shipped ones that I set contained half older and half newer eggs and the older eggs were the ones that developed.
Come on you are telling people that it is possible to get 90-100% hatch rates on 12 day old eggs and this thread started with 100% hatch on eggs bought and shipped from Springhill. You are going to cost people money and disappointment if they believe this and you know they will because they really want that one of a kind egg on a five day ebay auction.
If you do not want to waste your money and increase your chances of hatching to a maximum do not buy shipped eggs older than 24 hrs old.
Excuse me? I am not saying that at all. The last sentence of my post clearly starts with "Now these are not shipped eggs" I am not telling anyone anything, but I do know that my eggs here remain viable a lot longer than 7 days. Another member here shipped me eggs, and NONE hatched, but the ones that started to develop were the older than 7 day eggs, the younger eggs stayed clear, I am not saying that old eggs are better, I am just pointing out that nothing is 100 %, when it comes to hatching shipped eggs. That said....I'm done, I do not need to deal with someone who is clearly looking for an argument, sorry to have questioned your obvious expertise.
Just checked, and the oldest *shipped egg* to hatch was five days old when set.
-Kathy
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@DylansMom , you are correct, 26 days old and it hatched just fine.
@ChickenCanoe , later this year I'll do the same experiment on chicken and duck eggs.
-Kathy
@ChickenCanoe , later this year I'll do the same experiment on chicken and duck eggs.
-Kathy
Anyone that buys shipped eggs takes a gamble no matter how fresh the eggs are, 100% is marvalious but it is rare so anyone willing to take that gamble will also have to accept the fact that no matter how fresh the eggs are when they shipped they most likely won't get 100% hatch rate, it is what it is
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