Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[chicknfun]

That is scarier than that clown she posted earlier.....Good night every one

 

[silver1313]

night to those going to bed ....

scary lady !! might go to bed early myself lol

 

[ozexpat]

An open letter to egg shippers

Dear Sir/Madam

I am excited about our business arrangement and look forward to your eggs arriving here in the best possible condition. While I am sure you have had plenty of experience shipping eggs, I have had vast experience receiving eggs. Many of those I have received have failed miserably. I would like to share what I feel is the ideal way to receive eggs.

1. Eggs must be fresh. By that I mean that they should be less than 3 days. It takes 3 days for USPS to get the eggs from you to me and then they need to rest for 24 hours. Any eggs over 3 days old when shipped will be over 7 days old when I get them into my incubator. (when I negotiate for shipped eggs that I am going to take overseas I only buy from sellers that can collect the day before and the day of posting). Also remember that the older the egg the larger the air cell so the more damage. Please never ship me an egg laid on a Wednesday.

2. Please label the eggs before you wrap them. You may only have one breed of birds but I may be buying several orders at one and sometimes I have to look up the shipping label to reference in order to find out who they came from and what breed they are. I am always impressed when the date laid is also on there. A lead pencil or non-toxic marker such as a sharpie are great. One shipper also included a letter code for the different pens. This was great as I could then provide feedback to the shipper about the hatch rates from different pens.

3. Packing. I prefer the skyline method. http://www.skylinepoultry.com/Packing___shipping_eggs.html using bubble wrapped individual eggs and have them sit large end up. Use lots of shredded paper or styro peanuts to fill the voids between, above and below the eggs. Then place them in a second box with the same material padding. This will minimized impact damage. Lots of heavy and odd shaped items will be in the same trucks as these precious lives. Alternatively, ship with foam inserts available from www.texaspoultry.com. I personally use these to ship eggs overseas. They are more costly but the best solution I have found.

4. Shipping. Never ship on Thursday. That will guarantee you will give me old eggs. The best shipping days are Saturdays, Monday and Tuesday. This gives the post office wiggle room to mess up the shipment and still get here with time to salvage. A Wednesday and Thursday shipments are risky. Fridays are OK but occasionally the USPS can get eggs here in 2 days and Friday shipments remove that possibility.


5. Ask me if it is my preference to pick them up at the post office (reducing handling) or not. Some of who work cannot get to the post office. Others would prefer less handled eggs.

6. Ship me what I buy. Yesterday I got a shipment of advertised as 16+ Ameraucana Buff and Ameraucana eggs. 10 were brown. When I contacted the seller he said that they were not buff colored Ameraucanas but Ameraucana rooster over Buff Orpington hens. This is deceptive and I demanded a refund for the whole sale. 6 blue eggs will not help for me at all.


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[silver1313]

An open letter to egg shippers

Dear Sir/Madam

I am excited about our business arrangement and look forward to your eggs arriving here in the best possible condition. While I am sure you have had plenty of experience shipping eggs, I have had vast experience receiving eggs. Many of those I have received have failed miserably. I would like to share what I feel is the ideal way to receive eggs.

1. Eggs must be fresh. By that I mean that they should be less than 3 days. It takes 3 days for USPS to get the eggs from you to me and then they need to rest for 24 hours. Any eggs over 3 days old when shipped will be over 7 days old when I get them into my incubator. (when I negotiate for shipped eggs that I am going to take overseas I only buy from sellers that can collect the day before and the day of posting). Also remember that the older the egg the larger the air cell so the more damage. Please never ship me an egg laid on a Wednesday.

2. Please label the eggs before you wrap them. You may only have one breed of birds but I may be buying several orders at one and sometimes I have to look up the shipping label to reference in order to find out who they came from and what breed they are. I am always impressed when the date laid is also on there. A lead pencil or non-toxic marker such as a sharpie are great. One shipper also included a letter code for the different pens. This was great as I could then provide feedback to the shipper about the hatch rates from different pens.

3. Packing. I prefer the skyline method. http://www.skylinepoultry.com/Packing___shipping_eggs.html using bubble wrapped individual eggs and have them sit large end up. Use lots of shredded paper or styro peanuts to fill the voids between, above and below the eggs. Then place them in a second box with the same material padding. This will minimized impact damage. Lots of heavy and odd shaped items will be in the same trucks as these precious lives. Alternatively, ship with foam inserts available from www.texaspoultry.com. I personally use these to ship eggs overseas. They are more costly but the best solution I have found.

4. Shipping. Never ship on Thursday. That will guarantee you will give me old eggs. The best shipping days are Saturdays, Monday and Tuesday. This gives the post office wiggle room to mess up the shipment and still get here with time to salvage. A Wednesday and Thursday shipments are risky. Fridays are OK but occasionally the USPS can get eggs here in 2 days and Friday shipments remove that possibility.


5. Ask me if it is my preference to pick them up at the post office (reducing handling) or not. Some of who work cannot get to the post office. Others would prefer less handled eggs.

6. Ship me what I buy. Yesterday I got a shipment of advertised as 16+ Ameraucana Buff and Ameraucana eggs. 10 were brown. When I contacted the seller he said that they were not buff colored Ameraucanas but Ameraucana rooster over Buff Orpington hens. This is deceptive and I demanded a refund for the whole sale. 6 blue eggs will not help for me at all.

 

[missnu01]

I have a question for you hatchers..I set 24 Marans mixed eggs on the 22nd of march. All different hens with Marans roosters...anyway 4 of the eggs were infertile and 2 died aroun days 2-3...so 18 eggs were locked down on the 9th, and this morning at 6 am I awoke to the sound of peeping..thought maybe oh a chick is far enough along for me to hear it..and I go look to see a chick stumbling around, and that most of the eggs are pipped...so I spend all day watching for the eggs to hatch...now 15 have hatched and the remaining 3 are pipped, 2 are pipped with small holes one has a big hole that it can fit most of its head through...it seems content to just look out and doesn't appear to be in zipping position, but anyway...do I have to wait for these last 3 eggs to hatch? Or can I remove some of the dry chicks to the brooder? I I should leave them in the bator I will...but if its alright to remove them I would like to

 

[TweetyNPetey]

How lovely!! I love goosy lookinginto the cage!!
YAY!!!
What part of pa are you in?

I am in Coopersburg. Right outside of Quakertown.

 

[cochins1088]

I have a question for you hatchers..I set 24 Marans mixed eggs on the 22nd of march. All different hens with Marans roosters...anyway 4 of the eggs were infertile and 2 died aroun days 2-3...so 18 eggs were locked down on the 9th, and this morning at 6 am I awoke to the sound of peeping..thought maybe oh a chick is far enough along for me to hear it..and I go look to see a chick stumbling around, and that most of the eggs are pipped...so I spend all day watching for the eggs to hatch...now 15 have hatched and the remaining 3 are pipped, 2 are pipped with small holes one has a big hole that it can fit most of its head through...it seems content to just look out and doesn't appear to be in zipping position, but anyway...do I have to wait for these last 3 eggs to hatch? Or can I remove some of the dry chicks to the brooder? I I should leave them in the bator I will...but if its alright to remove them I would like to

It depends on the incubator. If yours can get back to the correct humidity fairly quickly, then you can remove the dry chicks.

If you decide to remove them, just watch the other 3 to make sure that they didn't get shrink wrapped.

If the other chicks aren't bothering the remaining 3, then I would just leave them for a bit longer.

 

[ozexpat]

I have a question for you hatchers..I set 24 Marans mixed eggs on the 22nd of march. All different hens with Marans roosters...anyway 4 of the eggs were infertile and 2 died aroun days 2-3...so 18 eggs were locked down on the 9th, and this morning at 6 am I awoke to the sound of peeping..thought maybe oh a chick is far enough along for me to hear it..and I go look to see a chick stumbling around, and that most of the eggs are pipped...so I spend all day watching for the eggs to hatch...now 15 have hatched and the remaining 3 are pipped, 2 are pipped with small holes one has a big hole that it can fit most of its head through...it seems content to just look out and doesn't appear to be in zipping position, but anyway...do I have to wait for these last 3 eggs to hatch? Or can I remove some of the dry chicks to the brooder? I I should leave them in the bator I will...but if its alright to remove them I would like to

I personally will leave them till morning. The others dont seem far behind and you will mess with humidity. A great hatch for Marans. Good job.

 

[cochins1088]

An open letter to egg shippers

Dear Sir/Madam

I am excited about our business arrangement and look forward to your eggs arriving here in the best possible condition. While I am sure you have had plenty of experience shipping eggs, I have had vast experience receiving eggs. Many of those I have received have failed miserably. I would like to share what I feel is the ideal way to receive eggs.

1. Eggs must be fresh. By that I mean that they should be less than 3 days. It takes 3 days for USPS to get the eggs from you to me and then they need to rest for 24 hours. Any eggs over 3 days old when shipped will be over 7 days old when I get them into my incubator. (when I negotiate for shipped eggs that I am going to take overseas I only buy from sellers that can collect the day before and the day of posting). Also remember that the older the egg the larger the air cell so the more damage. Please never ship me an egg laid on a Wednesday.

2. Please label the eggs before you wrap them. You may only have one breed of birds but I may be buying several orders at one and sometimes I have to look up the shipping label to reference in order to find out who they came from and what breed they are. I am always impressed when the date laid is also on there. A lead pencil or non-toxic marker such as a sharpie are great. One shipper also included a letter code for the different pens. This was great as I could then provide feedback to the shipper about the hatch rates from different pens.

3. Packing. I prefer the skyline method. http://www.skylinepoultry.com/Packing___shipping_eggs.html using bubble wrapped individual eggs and have them sit large end up. Use lots of shredded paper or styro peanuts to fill the voids between, above and below the eggs. Then place them in a second box with the same material padding. This will minimized impact damage. Lots of heavy and odd shaped items will be in the same trucks as these precious lives. Alternatively, ship with foam inserts available from www.texaspoultry.com. I personally use these to ship eggs overseas. They are more costly but the best solution I have found.

4. Shipping. Never ship on Thursday. That will guarantee you will give me old eggs. The best shipping days are Saturdays, Monday and Tuesday. This gives the post office wiggle room to mess up the shipment and still get here with time to salvage. A Wednesday and Thursday shipments are risky. Fridays are OK but occasionally the USPS can get eggs here in 2 days and Friday shipments remove that possibility.


5. Ask me if it is my preference to pick them up at the post office (reducing handling) or not. Some of who work cannot get to the post office. Others would prefer less handled eggs.

6. Ship me what I buy. Yesterday I got a shipment of advertised as 16+ Ameraucana Buff and Ameraucana eggs. 10 were brown. When I contacted the seller he said that they were not buff colored Ameraucanas but Ameraucana rooster over Buff Orpington hens. This is deceptive and I demanded a refund for the whole sale. 6 blue eggs will not help for me at all.

This is great Oz!

 

[rbaker0345]

do you have pics of "swollen bums" is the navel closed or open? not sure I know what you mean big butt? wet chicks I assume your are talking about, usually humidity is too high you get really big chicks sounds like what your saying but not sure?

I will post a pic as soon as I can, but your description of really big chicks is pretty accurate. The one chick is twice as big as the other, makes the smaller chick look skinny. The navels are closed, no yolk sac. I'm pretty sure that I was overcompensating for the low humidity in the last hatch by raising it too much for this hatch. Do the big wet chicks usually live? It seems pretty strong, just big and fat.