Colorado

[trsturself]

That's why I really didn't want to do shipped eggs, but she has some breeds/mixes we are interested in and she had a good price so I thought we'd take the risk. I just hope for one! Lol!

 

[Aacre]

Quitters=losers.. Kind of the same thing at least!

I'm hoping it's done snowing here.. I'm sick of snow and the cold!

 

[suncatcher]

That many eggs, you should get a least two or three!! How far were they shipped?

 

[trsturself]

They came from TX. So not too far. She got them sent out before their freeze so they should've had decent temps all the way. I just hope they didn't shake them up too bad.

 

[Pozees]

On another note..... I think we have close to a foot of snow, and more in the forecast! YIKES!

We didn't get a flake, just the 20 degrees all day ... boo!

 

[suncatcher]

A nearby state always helps! Were you able to check air cells? I know someone mentioned here before, but you can let them rest for several days if the air cells are really damaged. Are you using an egg carton with the bottoms cut out to set them in? This may help air cells also, as you just tilt the entire carton.

 

[Pozees]

A nearby state always helps! Were you able to check air cells? I know someone mentioned here before, but you can let them rest for several days if the air cells are really damaged. Are you using an egg carton with the bottom but out to set them in? This may help air cells also, as you just tilt the entire carton.

What ronott1 (aka Hatching God) says is to get them incubating within 24 hours, preferably within 12, and to just leave the turner off for up to 5 days and let the air cells stabilize. He feels age is the greatest enemy of shipped eggs. He is not at our elevation but does have great hatching percentages, so I take his recommendations to heart. That said, the eggs you can't see air cells in are the freshest, but if you are seeing anything more than a minute air cell, set them no more than 24 hours after receiving them. I mainly decided to keep my Brinsea for that reason - any shipped eggs with loose air cells go in there for 5 days, then go to the Sportsman, which has the turner activated. I am ALWAYS working on hatching techniques here with both local and shipped eggs - by the time I retire I am bound to have it down LOL.

 

[trsturself]

A nearby state always helps! Were you able to check air cells? I know someone mentioned here before, but you can let them rest for several days if the air cells are really damaged. Are you using an egg carton with the bottoms cut out to set them in? This may help air cells also, as you just tilt the entire carton.

What ronott1 (aka Hatching God) says is to get them incubating within 24 hours, preferably within 12, and to just leave the turner off for up to 5 days and let the air cells stabilize. He feels age is the greatest enemy of shipped eggs. He is not at our elevation but does have great hatching percentages, so I take his recommendations to heart. That said, the eggs you can't see air cells in are the freshest, but if you are seeing anything more than a minute air cell, set them no more than 24 hours after receiving them. I mainly decided to keep my Brinsea for that reason - any shipped eggs with loose air cells go in there for 5 days, then go to the Sportsman, which has the turner activated. I am ALWAYS working on hatching techniques here with both local and shipped eggs - by the time I retire I am bound to have it down LOL.

Great advice! Thanks!
I set them in the incubator this morning. We got them so late in the night and they were cold so I didn't want to set them before we went to bed. The ones I could see air cells on where small bubbles. Of those about 1/3 had floating cells. Our incubator is a manual turner so I'm not going to start turning until the 5th day.
Yes, they are in egg cartons with holes in the bottom.

 

[suncatcher]

A nearby state always helps! Were you able to check air cells? I know someone mentioned here before, but you can let them rest for several days if the air cells are really damaged. Are you using an egg carton with the bottom but out to set them in? This may help air cells also, as you just tilt the entire carton.

What ronott1 (aka Hatching God) says is to get them incubating within 24 hours, preferably within 12, and to just leave the turner off for up to 5 days and let the air cells stabilize.  He feels age is the greatest enemy of shipped eggs.  He is not at our elevation but does have great hatching percentages, so I take his recommendations to heart.  That said, the eggs you can't see air cells in are the freshest, but if you are seeing anything more than a minute air cell, set them no more than 24 hours after receiving them.  I mainly decided to keep my Brinsea for that reason - any shipped eggs with loose air cells go in there for 5 days, then go to the Sportsman, which has the turner activated.  I am ALWAYS working on hatching techniques here with both local and shipped eggs - by the time I retire I am bound to have it down LOL.

I know, so many ways to help your hatch rate, but FRESH eggs are needed! Yep, let them rest a few days, is ok, no turning in the bator. I tried no egg cartons and just lay them in the bator, I tried the egg carton and tilted it from both inside the bator, and then saw someone tilted them from outside the bator, just put a brick or peice of wood under the bator on one side, that is the one that worked for me. I bougt a plastic egg tray off Ebay for like $3, I don't have an auto turner,and not sure I want one with shipped eggs. A great packaging job helps, AND, tin foil, I always, always ask them that they be wrapped in foil, as they do get X-rayed, I don't care what the Post Office says.

 

[suncatcher]

Small air cells (air bubbles) is good, means they are very fresh. The size of a dime is great. The ones that look like a saddle, let them rest. I mark all my air cells, even the damaged ones, this way you can see where it started and if it fixes itself, it did not in my case, but at least you know where it was/is.