How do YOU store your fertile eggs

[Ravenlover]

Please all of you give examples of how you store your fertile eggs when you are waiting for enough to incubate, thought this would help a lot of people who are learning (including me) and would love to see and hear how you all do it

 

[PioneerChicks]

I keep them big-side-up in a carton on the counter. They are marked with the date, and the hen who later it (if known). Will this be your first hatch?

 

[Ravenlover]

I keep them big-side-up in a carton on the counter. They are marked with the date, and the hen who later it (if known). Will this be your first hatch?

My buttons are almost at foam stage and Vladimir one of the 3 females has been laying, so it will be my own first gen i hatched all 5 buttons.

 

[WallyG74]

I keep them big-side-up in a carton on the counter. They are marked with the date, and the hen who later it (if known). Will this be your first hatch?

How long is too long for sitting on the counter if hatching is your intention?

 

[PioneerChicks]

How long is too long for sitting on the counter if hatching is your intention?

The basic rule is that after the egg a are two weeks old, the fertility starts to drop (in other words, they are less likely to hatch). Oh, and I forgot to mention, the eggs should be unwashed and un-refrigerated.

 

[PioneerChicks]

My buttons are almost at foam stage and Vladimir one of the 3 females has been laying, so it will be my own first gen i hatched all 5 buttons.

That's awesome! Have fun and good luck!

 

[Fenrisulfr]

I am keeping them between 8° and 15°C, not too dry and I am collecting for 10 to 14 days.

This year I kept them in my unheated hut at my breeding lot and the temps dropped in the hut down to 4° to 5°C (outside freezing).
Still had a hatchrate of nearly 80%.

 

[Ravenlover]

Weird everything u read and hear for best hatch rates is no longer then 7 days, after that starting somewhere on the 7th day fertility in the eggs drop or somthing.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

Yes, litature says so, but my experience tells me otherwise.

Same with fertilisation of a hen while changing roos.
After 14 days I still had 2 eggs fertilized by the old roo. Makes me now waiting 3 weeks, till collect after roo change.

Mother nature isn't a machine, and life always finds a way

 

[Ravenlover]

Yes, litature says so, but my experience tells me otherwise.

Same with fertilisation of a hen while changing roos.
After 14 days I still had 2 eggs fertilized by the old roo. Makes me now waiting 3 weeks, till collect after roo change.

Mother nature isn't a machine, and life always finds a way

These are buttons so they are more delicate then normal coturnix quail, o.o but maybe