Advice please

[annie3001]

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thank you thank you thank you !!!!!!! i am sooooo excited!!!!!!

 

[Ridgerunner]

It is exciting. You are going to enjoy this.

Since this is your first time, I suggest reading the Texas A&M article in this link. It talks quite a bit about storing eggs to prepare for incubation. You don't have to follow everything exactly as they say but it gives a lot of good information. For example, this article gives a preferred temperature range to store the eggs. Many of us just store them at room temperature and do fine. As Dsqard said, some people refrigerate the eggs and do OK.

Many of us violate some of these recommendations and still do OK. Look at these as suggestions or guidelines, not you are going to fail miserably if you don't do this exactly rules. If you follow these suggestions your odds of a good hatch will improve. That does not guarantee you will have a good hatch and violating them does not guarantee a bad hatch. Doing it the right way just improves your odds.

Texas A&M Incubation site
http://gallus.tamu.edu/library/extpublications/b6092.pdf

I know you don't have your turner yet, but I plug in my turner in the coolest room in the house and store my eggs in there. That way I don't have to worry about turning them. Think about it for your next hatch.

 

[annie3001]

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THank you for the very helpful information you provided. I greatly appriciate this!

 

[dsqard]

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Good advice Ridgerunner. I didn't even think about doing that. I will probably set mine up this afternoon so I don't forget to turn the eggs that I am setting aside for the NYH.