anyone else getting *old* eggs?

[Ruditchka]

Well, sort of...! I'm getting old, but my eggs are still pretty young

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[pascopol]

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There is lots of irresponsible egg sellers around,

I came across a few lately.

One offered me a dozen eggs from a pair.?!

Get it?

a dozen from A PAIR (one hen) it absolutely did not bothered this person that most of them were 5 or more days old and some of them were about 2 WEEKS + OLD + shipping time!!!

 

[klf73]

I agree, you shouldn't offer an amount of eggs your chickens can't provide in 3 days....so if they slack a little you may get to 4 days. Unless the *extra* old ones are free I don't want 'em

 

[Sunny the Hippie Chick]

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I was shipped some eggs that were 6-7 days old, well the oldest egg any way.. It was from just one pair. And it took 2 days to ship.. All 6 of those eggs were fertile, and 5 hatched.. One being a quiter a few days before hatch.. Not all older eggs will be duds.. It also depends on the handling...

 

[onthespot]

I agree about including the "old" eggs as freebie extras. If i get busy and cant get to the PO, I keep collecting the new eggs and when I have the right count of new eggs, I pack the box and then I start wrapping and stuffing as many of the "old" or four days or older eggs as I can fit. I collect in separate baskets and cartons each day, so i always know which is older and pack the youngest "old" eggs first, and sometimes the person gets almost double what they paid for. So be it. If I am too busy to mail, that means I am busy making money at work. May as well let the other guy get a little windfall, if it turns out that way. Ups their chances of a good hatch, even if they are a few days older. I woud rather set two dozen week old eggs than twelve four day old eggs any day myself, and I figure the buyer feels the same way.


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[DANNY]

I have kept eggs up to 2 weeks old and they hatched. Not intensionally but was unable to get them set. But with shipped eggs it's a totally different thing because of the abuse they suffer in shipping. I have shipped in about 100 eggs this year none have hatched but i have some forming. The fertility has been terrible and most all of them had air cell damage ranging from bad to terrible.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi Krista! Ooooh, I should sit on my hands, but-o I have gotten some doozy-old-eggs. One seller I emailed right away after unwrapping and candling asked about why the air cells were already 1/4 of the egg and might they be old?. Seller responded that "'they hatch better that way". Most of those eggs got smelly/oozy before Day 7 candling came around.

I think it comes more from ignorance than maliciousness or maybe accidental.
That's why I date every egg as it come out of the pen so I KNOW what is 'fresh for shipping' or 'fresh for hatching' and what isn't (if an egg is here and hits 11- days-old and hasn't been set) I boil it.

Viability begins to drop drastically *here* after 10 days. Ideally, I'd like shipped eggs to be set before they hit '8-days-old'. With the punishment they have to endure in shipping and all...

BUT THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR SHIPPING OLD EGGS! IF YOU EVER DID IT, NEVER DO IT AGAIN.
IF YOU WERE THINKING OF IT... RETHINK IT AND DON'T .

Lisa

 

[Birch Run Farm]

I've hatched eggs that sat in my basement for three weeks. But they never went through the mail either. This year I have had a terrible time with mailed eggs and very low hatch rates. I think I am done buying eggs, something is not right with postal handling.

 

[tonini3059]

I hate oozy/smelly eggs!! I had a bunch do that and it almost turned me off of incubating. It seemed like every couple of days one would be bad and we had to clean the incubator because it smelled so bad and made me want to throw up..and I am a person who can handle bad smells, but nothing smells worse than a bad weeping egg!

 

[jenjscott]

The problem I'm having with this conversation is the remark about receiving infertile eggs. How do you know they were infertile? I mean, ijust because it doesn't develop doesn't mean it wasn't fertile, it could have been scrambled or something, bad temps.... How do you tell?