Thanks for the advice, I am going to talk to the seller, it was one of those who had disclaimers on how nothing is her fault after they leave her hands, and yada yada, but I feel like she may have had some stuff going on....I always crack open the clears. I've received a larger number of infertile eggs lately. If they were clear, this may have been at least part of your problem. Crack the clears and look for the bullseyes. No blastoderm then it doesn't matter what you did right or wrong, nothing was happening with these eggs.
I purchased a dozen eggs locally a year ago. I put them in my very reliable Brinsea Octagon and 5 days later, 4 were developing. I waited until 10 days and no change. I pulled the 8 clears and cracked them, confirming infertility. I told the breeder who claimed it couldn't be. A week later she contacted me and confirmed her own infertility. These weren't even shipped.
Unfortunately, people have said that they were fertile when they left, but the X-rays that they likely experienced from USPS reversed the blastoderm
Please note-- this does not happen.
I have not rated her yet, however I need to soon, now that I have wifi at my new house, but when my mom suggested I left a rating as soon I got the eggs, I refrained until they hatched, and I am glad I did.
I have been getting shipped eggs to for serama chickens...which aren't the best breed to pic for incubating. I've had a couple singke egg hatches to, dk did more resesrch and thjs is what i do now.So..i always ask shipper to pak eggs small end down & write fragile/this end up on box. When i unwrapped i am careful not to spin the eggs or flip them when i unwrap.i rest the eggs, small end down , room temp for 24hrs. I put them n incubator 24hrs later, small end down( i like foam egg carton trays) and do not turn for a couple days. I try to keep batod at 95.5 with 45/55 humidity. I keep them small end down and hand turn several times a day. Once they are ready for lockdown i then put them on thier sides. I raise humidity fir hatching when i put them into lockdown. Ive had better hatches this way. I also do not candle the eggs or mess with them much other than turning. If i do candle i still keep them small end down. I usually candle them when i put them in the hatcher for lockdown. After the ordeal eggs go through by shipping...i try not to handle them other than for turning. Even the 1st couple days...while the egg starts incubation...i dont even turn them when the embryo is in the early days of formationI have been buying hatching eggs online, because I live in the middle of no where with hardly any good breeders/hatcheries around.. I fully understand that hatching shipped eggs is a gamble but dang.. I have been having horrible luck.
The first two hatches I bought local..
Set 4 quail eggs only 1 hatched. (Which was an incubator malfunction so I returned it.)
Set 30 guinea fowl and 5 peafowl, hatched 15 guinea and 1 peafowl..
Then with the shipped eggs.. The post office decided to throw my boxes inside of a box on my porch and damaged most of the air cells, but I still have been able to get most to develop.
Set 13 Button Quail-3 hatched and after a few days only 1 is still alive. (Out of the non-hatchers only 1 was not fully developed..)
Set 6 Ayam Cemani eggs- 1 hatched two days ago..
I have a hydrometer inside of my incubators and I have been keeping the temperature and humidity stable but I don't know what else to do.
I have 4 Mandarin Duck eggs that need to go on lock down and I really want to be able to get a few of them to hatch. I started with 8 and the other 4 never developed.
Can anyone give me some tips please!?
I have forced air.temp should be 95.5. Still air is higher. I use another hygrometor to. I will put warm water soaked sponges in my bator to keep humidity up.i had a farm innovator. It had terrible temp. Fluctuations. It was firced air. I took it back. Got a hovabator now..love it
Could be your temp is to low
I think the eggs really get knocked around during transit and i never expect a 50% hatch. Don't get discouraged, if i get a few good hatches out of shipped eggs...im happy. Even though i spent a few bucks on the eggs, getting one chick was cheaper than buying/shipping the seramas i wanted. It is more difficult to hatch shipped eggs. I Lowerd my expectations on hatches. Now im not so disappointed. I think the best you can do is minimize handling the eggs, keep them small end down...specially during early development, maintain temp/humidity.
