How many days for shipped eggs?

Old McRonald

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Jun 15, 2018
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Do you typically see a longer incubation time on shipped eggs due to aging during shipping? I have a dozen silver laced orpingtons eggs I set late on May 25th, haven't seen any external pips and haven't candled for internal pips at this point but I was hoping to have seen progress at this point. I let them set for 24 hours after arrival before setting and heat/humidity have been right on throughout (had some bobwhite eggs just hatch from same bator on schedule). The eggs were said to be fresh and in transit for 3 days and very well packaged. Not nervous yet but, well, I want these to hatch!
Thanks,
Ron
 
Why would there be?
Not sure why an "aged" egg wouldn't hatch at same rate as fresh egg.
I have hens that collect and hatch their own so some are a day old and others are several days old. They hatch within 24 hours of each other.
 
See attached file bottom right hand corner it says "Eggs older than 7 days may require extra time to hatch." Moot point now anyway as 0 hatched but quail did so fertility or handling during shipping were probably the culprit.
 

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