At which stage did your shipped eggs fail?

[LinzeeBrie]

I'm sure there's a broad range of answers to this question, but my curiosity has gotten the best of me... If you incubated shipped eggs, did you notice that they never really started developing? Or did they make it to a certain point and then quit? These are my Day 8 candling results, and I'm pretty bummed...Assuming that a percentage of the ones that have developed this far won't make it the whole way, my odds don't look good . Thankfully I've got about 60 of my own EE eggs developing beautifully in my homemade incubator to hopefully offset the cost a little bit...

 

[Mellowmalt]

I've found the majority of losses happen early on so I'd say the chances or getting the remaining ones to hatch should be good.

Shipped eggs have always shown if they would make it or not by day 7, either development or not and only once have I lost an egg during lockdown.

If the unknowns are infertile ones then the results for the CCL's could be quite bad with that many blood rings and infertiles. But I think you are over the worst as long as your incubator conditions are right. If they manage to develop past day 8 then chances are high they won't have suffered any noticeable transport damage unlike the others that didn't make it.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I've hatched eggs 2x that were shipped. First was a dozen Ayam Cemani from CiaBia here. I had 2 hatch out of 3 that made it to lock down, the rest were either too little to notice or in the first week-ten days. BUT I hadn't known to rest upright, just that they needed to rest so they rested on their sides so that probably didn't help.

Second was 36 celadon eggs. Had 13 hatch, 1 culled due to wry neck. However I had bad incubator problems with that batch first they didn't turn the first like 6 days because apparently they were too heavy for the turner. Then humid would flood and then crash within minutes almost constantly. Had to fill all the water wells and then have the incubator opened with a nickle to keep it somewhat stable. Then I unplugged it after about 20 days (2 days after the last one hatched) and when I went to start doing autopsies the next afternoon, noticed several had pipped then died (I had checked for piped before unplugging and never heard a sound). The ones that didn't pip were in various stages, and I had one gnarly one I kept as a specimen that didn't make it. He had a hernia and the most sever case of crossbeak I had seen (he couldn't have opened his mouth it was so bad)

 

[LinzeeBrie]

I've found the majority of losses happen early on so I'd say the chances or getting the remaining ones to hatch should be good.

Shipped eggs have always shown if they would make it or not by day 7, either development or not and only once have I lost an egg during lockdown.

If the unknowns are infertile ones then the results for the CCL's could be quite bad with that many blood rings and infertiles. But I think you are over the worst as long as your incubator conditions are right. If they manage to develop past day 8 then chances are high they won't have suffered any noticeable transport damage unlike the others that didn't make it.

Thank you! The "unknowns" were good looking air cells and decent veins but no visible life/movement, but I'm optimistic that embryos were just hiding, because I didn't see anything that looked BAD. And a couple were too dark to see any veining but the air cells looked good. The 2 "duds" were the only infertile.

 

[LinzeeBrie]

And the "unknown" Svarts had some good veins, and weak life, but what looked like the beginning of blood rings. So I think I might've caught them right before they're about to lose their fight