A Box of Monsters

[BlueBaby]

My egg's are now in transit from my favorite breeder out of Chicago. He sent me the tracking number and his usual message about hatching shipped egg's. I don't know if I have told you before about the message or not, so here it is. I copied and pasted from my email:

Here are a few tips for incubating eggs that have gotten shaken in transport by the postal system:

1. Remember that you will need to let the eggs set pointy side down for 24 hours BEFORE placing them in your incubator.

2. On day 19 it is common to take chicken eggs out of the turner and lay them on their sides and no longer turn them for hatching. With shipped eggs on day 19 put them in egg cartons pointed end down to let them hatch. If the air cells are irregular shaped due to shipping, this allows the chicks to have the air cell perfectly up for hatching and can insure a better hatch rate.

NOTE: For DUCK or GUINEA FOWL eggs, follow the same procedure as above at DAY 26 INSTEAD. (Ducklings and Keets have a 28 day incubation period rather than the 21 day incubation period of chicken eggs).

Remember, incubating SHIPPED eggs have intrinsic risks, and need all of our help!

Good luck with the hatch!

 

[Stacaroni]

My egg's are now in transit from my favorite breeder out of Chicago. He sent me the tracking number and his usual message about hatching shipped egg's. I don't know if I have told you before about the message or not, so here it is. I copied and pasted from my email:

Here are a few tips for incubating eggs that have gotten shaken in transport by the postal system:

1. Remember that you will need to let the eggs set pointy side down for 24 hours BEFORE placing them in your incubator.

2. On day 19 it is common to take chicken eggs out of the turner and lay them on their sides and no longer turn them for hatching. With shipped eggs on day 19 put them in egg cartons pointed end down to let them hatch. If the air cells are irregular shaped due to shipping, this allows the chicks to have the air cell perfectly up for hatching and can insure a better hatch rate.

NOTE: For DUCK or GUINEA FOWL eggs, follow the same procedure as above at DAY 26 INSTEAD. (Ducklings and Keets have a 28 day incubation period rather than the 21 day incubation period of chicken eggs).

Remember, incubating SHIPPED eggs have intrinsic risks, and need all of our help!

Good luck with the hatch!

Interesting! I did rest them for 24 hours. I'll try pointy side down at lockdown but if there's no development at this point... Pretty sure most of them are quitters.

 

[BlueBaby]

Interesting! I did rest them for 24 hours. I'll try pointy side down at lockdown but if there's no development at this point... Pretty sure most of them are quitters.

Like I said before, it could also be that time of the year for the molting, and they aren't in the mood for much breeding (even the rooster), so that could cause less fertilization of the egg's. It could be their diet too. We don't know how the breeder that you got your's from manages their flock. What state did they ship from?

 

[Stacaroni]

Like I said before, it could also be that time of the year for the molting, and they aren't in the mood for much breeding (even the rooster), so that could cause less fertilization of the egg's. It could be their diet too. We don't know how the breeder that you got your's from manages their flock. What state did they ship from?

Yeah, it's a crap shoot sometimes but a dozen of them had some development at day 5. They came from northern California. I'm not upset, just a little disappointed.

At least I have a pair. Of course there's potential inbreeding issues. I'll probably order a few of chicks next spring to get some diversity.

 

[BlueBaby]

Well, I ended up with only having 11 egg's that were from the batch of shipped egg's from Chicago so I marked them with a C" and then added one of mine marked with a "B" so that it would be an even dozen that went into my incubator at 9 am this morning. The batch of egg's from the other state will most likely be delivered tomorrow and any of those that are good enough to go into my incubator will be marked with a "M". All of them will be Bielefelder's , but I wanted to mark them anyway's so I can keep track of what hatches from where.

 

[BlueBaby]

My 2nd batch of Bielefelder hatching egg's arrived this morning. There were 14 egg's in this one, and they were packed differently. None of these egg's were broken even though they had traveled father then the other batch. There's even a few of the speckled egg's in there. I have them resting in an egg carton now.

 

[Stacaroni]

My 2nd batch of Bielefelder hatching egg's arrived this morning. There were 14 egg's in this one, and they were packed differently. None of these egg's were broken even though they had traveled father then the other batch. There's even a few of the speckled egg's in there. I have them resting in an egg carton now.

I'm glad they arrived in better shape than the last ones.

Mine are in lockdown. I forgot to candle last night so... I'm just going to see what happens.

 

[BlueBaby]

I'm glad they arrived in better shape than the last ones.

Mine are in lockdown. I forgot to candle last night so... I'm just going to see what happens.

I'm glad too. I hope that you get more to hatch for you this time then the last time.

 

[Stacaroni]

I'm glad too. I hope that you get more to hatch for you this time then the last time.

Thanks. I'm not holding out much hope but that's OK. Next year I'll have my own eggs to hatch.

By the way, Ethel is molting. It looks like someone eviscerated a feather pillow out there.

 

[BlueBaby]

Thanks. I'm not holding out much hope but that's OK. Next year I'll have my own eggs to hatch.

By the way, Ethel is molting. It looks like someone eviscerated a feather pillow out there.

I'll have my own egg's going well to hatch my own next year too.

If your's are molting up the protein to help grow the feather's back faster. Yes, it look's like an outdoor pillow fight when the do the molt.