buying eggs in winter time?

[sandspoultry]

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Just something to think about, we are in eastern NC with summer heat above 90 easy, often days of 100. our birds lay and hatch thru the summer, it's a good thing the eggs and hens don't know it's to hot to lay and hatch.

Steve in nc

and please don't send a link to this group to our birds so our birds don't know what they are supposed to do and not supposed to do. We like to let them be birds and do what comes natural to them.

Steve in NC

 

[speckledhen]

It does get pretty hot under those setting hens, doesn't it? The first eggs I ever sold went to Nebraska. The P.O. sat them on the porch in spite of the sticker that said call for pickup. They sat in 105 degree heat for a couple of hours. One hatched.

 

[the1much]

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Just something to think about, we are in eastern NC with summer heat above 90 easy, often days of 100. our birds lay and hatch thru the summer, it's a good thing the eggs and hens don't know it's to hot to lay and hatch.

Steve in NC

ya,,, dont tell mine either,, they layed through almost 2 months of over 100 degrees,,,,,, but my eggs didnt stay out in the heat for days,, jus a half a day and they were in the fridge

 

[seriousbill]

I've also had better luck with shipped eggs in cooler weather. I think what's lethal is the combination of shipping stress and heat. It's tough when they're getting tossed around at an airport and baking in the back of a hot truck or on a scalding sidewalk. I once had 2 dozen eggs shipped from Texas in 90 degree heat (it was August, and it hadn't been that hot only days before. Anyway, one hatched; I named him "Texas Pete" after the hot sauce

. I had a dozen eggs from the same breeder shipped in January in the 30's F, and 8 hatched. And you may ask why, seriousbill, did you have those eggs shipped in January? And I do not have a good answer for that question