Eggs stuck in the mail! - one hatched!

[BeardedChick]

It's day 18. Down to 1 egg out of the original 6.

The one egg looks great, though, there is definitely a full active embryo at this stage.

The hatcher is stabilizing so I can move my little lone survivor over tonight.

 

[swtangel321]

Good luck on your eggie

 

[pbjmaker]

Good Luck and be sure to post pictures!

 

[BeardedChick]

A doz+ soul thieving showgirl eggs arrived today, and one egg was immediately sacrificed to science.

Temperature inside the egg was 41-42 degrees (this after Fed Ex set the box on my icey porch this morning sometime w/o ringing the doorbell

).

I should have another batch of eggs come in priority mail today and will update with interior egg temp. Probably not interesting to anyone but me.

 

[mrsengeseth]

It's certainly interesting to me!!

 

[pbjmaker]

interesting to me since I have had some eggs from my own yard that seemed frozen. I want to know if they will hatch when they get really cold for even a short while. (mine are on day 2

)

 

[BeardedChick]

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Ok, I'm giving this a small test today to see if eggs frozen in the mail would thaw out so quickly that you wouldn't know they were frozen...

I have been tracking the temperature of the showgirl egg that I sacrificed as it's been warming up. I took the eggs out of the box, but left them in a closed carton so they would warm up evenly through and through (hoping to prevent any internal condensation). Room temperature is about 68F.

Anyway, they are warming up at about 10 degrees per hour. Right now the egg with the probe in it is almost up to 60F internally. So I suspect if they were frozen in their packaging in transit, it would take them quite a long while to warm up if they are still surrounded by their packing material (which should act as insulation).

 

[BeardedChick]

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I am interested to know how your eggs do. Please post back with your results and let us know!

Just curious - are you sure they froze? I would have sworn some of these I received were frozen. They feel sooooo cold. But then internally, they are not really that close to freezing...

 

[pbjmaker]

One I believe was in the coop overnight - so was probably frozen. I had another the next day that was only out there for maybe 6 hours and had been stepped on by another pullet trying to use the same nest. It was cracked in half and congealed. The 2nd egg I put in the bator might have just been extremely cold but not quite frozen. I wish there was a way to take an internal temp but then still incubate them. My girls lay so sparadictly (sp) at this point I can't get more than one or two eggs per day at max and then they lay them at different times.

ETA: I will either candle on Sunday or Tuesday - I can usually see something by the end of the third day with these small lightly tinted eggs - but I'm trying to hold off untill day 7

 

[BeardedChick]

I wondered if those IR thermometer guns would read the internal temp.

http://www.thermoworks.com/products/ir/irgun.html

It will be interesting to see if the frozen one can hatch. Heck, they freeze all sorts of animal eggs & embryos and still use them...

Seems like it might hatch anyway?