For those of you who buy shipped hatching eggs, how long do you let them rest before setting them in the bator?
well it depends for me. if they sit at tyhe post ofice over night I dont let the sit. if I pick them up the day they arrive then I try to let them sit overnight. I always set at night because if I set durning the day I wanna open the bator... if I do it at night I wake to babies and I dont touch the eggs and open the bator repeatedly...
I used to let them sit 5 or 6 hours, now I let them sit about a day before I put them in the incubator.
I've let them sit 24 hours, I've put them right in the bator. For me at least, it made absolutely no difference.
I let mine sit for about 12 hours....that said I too like to put them in at night so sometimes it is longer. I have found that I have better hatch rates. I live at a higher elevation and it just stables them out.
At least 12 hours here. It's in the afternoon when we get them home, unwrap and let them sit over night before we put them in. Steve in NC