Egg Question

[SSTupperware]

I hear you store eggs to hatch around 60 deg. Well in Nature when a hens broody, I assume she lays one a day, and dosen't sit on them, so they all hatch at the same time? So why would one need to store at 60 or so?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Things like that are guidlelines. They are not absolute laws of nature. If you follow them exactly you are not guaranteed success. If you don't follow them exactly you are not guaranteed failure. All the guidelines do are improve your odds of success if you follow them.

Many of us violate some guidelines and still do prettty well. The further you are from the guidelines and the longer you are away from them, the worse your odds. But that's just odds. You can sometimes do a lot of things wrong and still get a pretty good hatch. Those eggs can be pretty tough. Sometiimes you can do everything right and still not get a good hatch. Odds.

The people that hatch a hundred thousand eggs or more a week have studied it, They have found that certain conditions consistently give them better hatches. Since a small percentage change means a lot of chicks for them, they follow the guidelines. Heck, they wrote the guidelines.

I don't store my eggs at the recommended temperatures. I don't have a place I can do that. I just do the best I can and that's the best I can do.

 

[SSTupperware]

Thats kinda what I thought...

 

[yo burrill]

It keeps the undeveloped chick healthier till you do set the eggs. They start developing above 70 degrees. If not incubated soon enough after they start they will die. If it gets close to 80 degrees in the house I put the eggs down cellar till they go in the bator.