Hatching shipped eggs

[JudysMuscovy]

Well you need to tell us who the seller is so we don't order from them

Oh ok didn't realize that

 

[AlleysChicks]

Oh ok didn't realize that

it’s ok.

 

[Colly1470]

I got impatient and candled my eggs today. I saw a dark spot in egg #4, but nothing in any of the others. It was only day 5, though.

 

[HenniesInMyHeart]

I order all my eggies and have had good and bad outcomes. I have an awesome seller for my Jubilee's and my first Coro breeder was better; the second batch I am not even sure they were fertile. We'll see; the cycle isn't done for them but I am not happy so far. As for bad sellers, don't we have a "Good Egg Bad Egg" forum on here? I will have a look and edit this to share a link if I can find it!
I ordered cheap incubators first but finally invested in a Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance with humidity pump and autoturn cradle. It is amazing, and though they are pricey, it's WORTH IT if you are gonna raise rare/more expensive babies, or if you are going to incubate more than once or twice! Brinsea d/c'd the Octagons but they are the best 'bators ever made IMHO. They are made with bacteriostatic plastic, pretty cool! You can sometimes find used ones on eBay. Got mine on there and love it so much! I used to breed rare parrots and these were the gold standard.
As for cheaper 'bators, I have tried the JANOEL-7 and JANOEL-12. Hatched successfully out of the 7 and still waiting to see about the 12.

 

[JudysMuscovy]

I bid on two different eggs - polish frizzle and Americana so far 10 out of 13 eggs polish frizzle look great and 7 out of 8 Americana look great. I have one more week to go! Super excited

 

[Little Jerry Seinfeld]

I'm not hatching shipped eggs exactly, but I've been buying them from as far as 2.5 hours away, through craigslist, friends , and a regional yard sale site I use for everything. I wish I had seen this thread earlier, to join in sooner
2 weeks ago I hatched out 35 chicks, my first time incubating since I was a kid, 30 lived and are healthy, very mixed breeds and even bantams. 35 hatched out of 65, (not great,)about 5 were "infertile duds",( my family says that's their new favorite insult by the way) about 12 were dead in the shell all one week before the hatch date, all arucaunas as far as i know. (I dont have 100 percent faith that my egg supplier wasn't confusing the araucanas with ameraucanas though) i had 2 of those that hatched and are doing great... Also 6 of my eggs someone else picked up and brought to me were cracked, i painted them with a thin layer of beeswax and 2 hatched!
Tomorrow we are picking up a dozen more mixed araucanas and easter Eggers eggs and 4 (or 6 if they lay enough tomorro) mixed coturnix quails, located 2 hours away. I will be incubating them along with a dozen eggs from my uncle, who knows what those are, when I asked he said "yellow chickens"
Here's a pic of my previous hatched babies I incubated.

 

[JudysMuscovy]

I order all my eggies and have had good and bad outcomes. I have an awesome seller for my Jubilee's and my first Coro breeder was better; the second batch I am not even sure they were fertile. We'll see; the cycle isn't done for them but I am not happy so far. As for bad sellers, don't we have a "Good Egg Bad Egg" forum on here? I will have a look and edit this to share a link if I can find it!
I ordered cheap incubators first but finally invested in a Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance with humidity pump and autoturn cradle. It is amazing, and though they are pricey, it's WORTH IT if you are gonna raise rare/more expensive babies, or if you are going to incubate more than once or twice! Brinsea d/c'd the Octagons but they are the best 'bators ever made IMHO. They are made with bacteriostatic plastic, pretty cool! You can sometimes find used ones on eBay. Got mine on there and love it so much! I used to breed rare parrots and these were the gold standard.
As for cheaper 'bators, I have tried the JANOEL-7 and JANOEL-12. Hatched successfully out of the 7 and still waiting to see about the 12.

I have the Brinsea 14 egg Maxi 11- so far I am loving it. I have a styrofoam one also I got when I started out incubating. The brinsea was a little pricey but if it works correctly than I think it's worth it. It's all automatic so I just monitor daily and add a little water. The only thing I don't like is it doesn't tell you the humidity.

 

[Zinjifrah]

Just hatched eggs off eBay - Serama bantams. They hatched yesterday, on day 19. The auction was for '16+', I got 18 well wrapped and packaged. One of them had a chip in it, a tiny spot, but I didn't see it until just a few days before hatching. I've never hatched any kind of eggs before. My results were;

Using a Zoo-Med reptile egg incubator, forced air, set at 100f. It doesn't have half-degree settings, but, hey. I already had it, and it had never been used. Hand turned every four hours up to day seventeen, marked with a dot on one side and a stripe on the other to be sure I didn't overlook anyone.

18 eggs to start.

-8 that candled clear on day 10 or so, and when opened showed no development. (Could be they were infertile, or too old, or x-rayed in shipping. Who knows.)

-1 that showed a 'bad' spot on day 10, opening showed an embryo that started but was blood-ringed.

9 eggs showed development and promise on day 10.

-3 on day 17. Emryo formation, but no development.

6 eggs showed development and potential, though I couldn't tell on movement, on day 17 when I 'locked down'. I had conflicting information on whether Serama would hatch on day 19 or day 21.

-4 on day 19, when they hatched healthy, strong little puffy golf balls!

That left two eggs that hadn't pipped. I didn't see movement in either of them.

-2 on day 20, when I carefully 'pecked' a small hole in the shell to check for blood vessels. None in the air pocket. Further opening the hole revealed dead chicks that had never internally pipped, both with full feather development and an egg tooth. One never absorbed any of its yolk sack, the other appears to have ruptured the yolk, since the egg started leaking yellow as soon as I opened the inner chick membrane to try and find out what went wrong. Both had vein structures, but they didn't bleed - the chicks were quite dead.

End results; 4 beautiful live chicks, 8 duds, 6 that might be my fault for loss, or might just have been natural fails.

Conclusion; I'll undoubtedly be doing this again. There's another Serama breeder that sell on eBay whose eggs I'd like to try, and I'd like more Serama! Maybe next month.

Incidentally, the one with the chip in it, which I covered with a tiny piece of scotch tape to hold humidity in when I saw it, was; The smallest egg. The first egg to hatch. The strongest chick out of the egg. The first chick to figure out food and water. And among the four, the smallest, the most active, and the leader.

 

[Mysimplewyominglife]

I ordered some buff orpington eggs that ended up being shipped on there sides and upside down (if you looked how the label was placed) seller said he was sorry (things happen I give them that) been in the bator for about 4 days still no hint of devlopment (but hey it could be delayed but all mine have show something yes thats other shipped eggs maybe not as badly shipped tho) had to pull 4 because 2 started leaking amber stuff so was not leaving them in and 2 they had air bubbles all over so thought they were pretty well done for plus major air cell rolling think I have another like those. So I'll be happy if I get 2 chicks out of these eggs because of the packing issue I doubt any will grow tho.

 

[llhayes1]

I put 25 shipped Ayam Cemani eggs in a week ago. Candled tonight, 20 had movement, 3 had good veins ( just couldn't see the little guys) and only 2 were just yolks. I have never done shipped eggs, and the only time I have incubated is when mama chicken abandoned her eggs and I had to make a quick home made job. a couple eggs cells look funky, but most looked to be ok. FINGERS CROSSED!