eggs shipped at 30 degrees

[HappyHippyChick]

I'm a bit worried as I paid a lot of money for the good quality silkie eggs and they mailed the eggs to me and the temperature is about 30 *. Has anyone have a situation like this? It's up north in Wisconsin and I am in mid state and it is 30* Thay are also up north and I have no idea of their temperature but it must very cold.

 

[nuthatched]

Better cooler than hotter.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Hopefully the temp inside the box stays a few degrees above freezing as it moves along. If the shipper doesn’t scramble your eggs (if you get saddled or detached air cells expect 25% hatch rates) the cold might drop your hatch rate some but the eggs should be very hatchable. Hatching home eggs in midwinter that have been exposed to 20-30 degree temps usually results in 50% hatch rates on my quail (vs80-90% in 40-50 weather). I have also shipped eggs in March to the upper Midwest (ambient temps in the mid 20s-30s) here and from the shipper, those that didn’t come scrambled had 60-80% hatch rates. Cold isn’t great for eggs but scrambling in shipment is far worse.