Incubating Eggs before Shipping

[kathyinmo]

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I'm in. Someone remind me, and I will do it.

 

[debilorrah]

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I'm in. Someone remind me, and I will do it.

Me too if no one minds mutts.

 

[rancher hicks]

CRAP! I just came back from the ALBC conference and sat through a session on Incubation given by Don Schrider. Hes' written a number of books. It would have been a great question. Darn!

It was a great session anyhow. You guys missed a great time.

Rancher

 

[jeremy]

I'll do some incubating if somebody supplies the eggs! I think it would be a great experiment, what if it turns out it's a great practice that results in much better hatches?

 

[kelseygirl707]

Sounds Interesting, but it's gotta be after the freezing time of year, unless both party's are in the same state and weather is good.

 

[mandelyn]

Alright, here's what we do. Take some eggs, go to day 3. Pull them out. What's average shipping? 3 days? Set them aside at room temp for 3 days. Put them back. See what happens. This effectively removes the post office variable.

I see it as entirely possible, I wouldn't have thought it before. But here I am on day 21 of incubation, but candling shows movement AND like a day 14-16 development. Somehow I must have had temperature issues that are making me late bloomers. If that can happen, maybe this can too?

I'd offer, but the eggs I have coming my way now I spent too much on for experimenting.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Wouldn't taking the post office an bad weather out defeat the purpose? You would learn if the can handle incubating 3 days an then waiting but you would learn nothing about if it was better for shipping... That's why you need a set of eggs incubated 3 days an a set that are fresh shipped in the same box so you can compare apples to apples.

 

[Mahonri]

The same thing could be done to start without shipping.

Take 12 eggs, incubate for 3 days. Take them out, let them sit for three days. Move the eggs around every once in a while (like they would be if they were shipped) Put them back in the incubator with 12 fresh eggs. and see what happens.

Of course lockdown would be messed up but what the heck. See what the difference is.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Whenever we do this, I will send both ..... fresh eggs and 3 day incubated eggs. I am not gonna ship in the winter weather. I don't do that with fresh eggs either. Come spring, I will give it a try though.

 

[jenlynn4]

what I would do is send them with a heat pack....I wonder if that would help??? This sounds like a good experiment. I think you would want to remove them from the incubator, pack them up as if you were shipping them take the box and bounce it on your couch a few times and set it on you washing machine on the spin cycle and then 3 days later try to incubate them the rest of the way... That would be a pretty darn good shipping simulation with the conveyer belts and the bumpy truck.