EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[BantyChooks]

my shell is no thick enough.buuurrrrrrr....my nose is running just thinking about that...View attachment 1201042

Got a cold?

I love winter. Except for when I'm refilling waterers.

Up here you gotta embrace it or go batty... I seem to have done both.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Got a cold?

My nose drips is freezing weather.. I think my brain melts.. lol

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Up here you gotta embrace it

You and your critters are acclimated.
1-9-2010... Florida snow..

 

[Lazy Farmer]

me

 

[Lazy Farmer]

 

[BantyChooks]

View attachment 1201067 View attachment 1201068

Is that snow or spilled flour?

Somewhere I have old images of me and my siblings trying to sled down a bare rocky hill whilst it was flurrying. I think it was taken about October... we all got pretty excited about winter then. It meant sugar on snow, skating, fun power outages, and blizzards... not shovelling, trying to cook in a power outage, scraping windshields, snowsuits everywhere, and constat puddles in the entry from little feet tracking in snow.

 

[venymae]

my shell is no thick enough.buuurrrrrrr....my nose is running just thinking about that...View attachment 1201042

What melts in the cold? Boogers!

 

[venymae]

I'm an Auntie everybody! My littlest sister had her baby yesterday. A little girl, Juniper. I was blessed to be there for the whole thing, she was a rockstar!

 

[OkieChickenGal]

How long should hatching eggs be sitting out on my counter before I ship them? If I sold a dozen and am only getting 4 eggs a day, I would have to wait 3 days to ship them so I could get a full dozen. Which means a lot of the eggs would be sitting out a couple of days. Is that ok?

 

[venymae]

How long should hatching eggs be sitting out on my counter before I ship them? If I sold a dozen and am only getting 4 eggs a day, I would have to wait 3 days to ship them so I could get a full dozen. Which means a lot of the eggs would be sitting out a couple of days. Is that ok?

Viability drops significantly after 10 days. 3 days old + 3 days shipping +1 day of rest would put them at 7 days old. I would not go any older. Also, it can also help to disclose the "maximum possible age" of eggs at shipping time to potential customers.