Incubating Eggs before Shipping

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! That must have been really interesting. What were you *experimenting* for?
I'm already looking forward to seeing just how long Day 3 eggs can survive out of the incubator.

Lisa

At 60 hours, almost day 3, we routinely took them out of the bator and set them on the counter overnight so they would be ready for experiments the next day. Nobody wants to work at night. LOL They almost always survived the night. Had maybe 4-5 out of hundreds that didn't make it, but of course, that could have been normal. However, due to the fact we used them for the experiment 95% of the time, I have very little to judge on how well they hatched. From the 5% we hatched to use later, just over half made it out vs the usual 95% of the ones set on purpose to hatch out. Of course, these are lab bred leghorn eggs which were shipped from the distributor if that makes a difference.​

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Wish I had better news.
Candled the 6 *pre-incubated* eggs this morning and only 1 appears to have started growing again. I'll give them a couple more days and candle again to be sure.
Candled the fresh eggs set the 6th and fertility is sooo lousy right now --- under 50%.
I wish I could talk to someone who does this so I could get more details.
Just can't see 'sacrificing' more developing eggs right now.

Lisa
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[Robo]

I will try this on some quail eggs in the spring. WhiteConfections does this, we should probably shoot them a PM...

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Thanks Robert! I sent him an email. Maybe he can explain what I did wrong.

Lisa

 

[silkiechicken]

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Growth factors that could work together to induce the formation of muscle from progenitors in the somites. In the bigger picture... a cure for muscular dystrophy.

 

[pnp4kidz]

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Very interesting post.
When I raised parrots, I could see fertility at 2.5 days incubation in pure white eggs.

I candled some 3 day incubated brown chicken eggs (barred rock and dark cornish) and found they were fertile. THEN the power went out! Power was out for 15 hours and my house got down to 48 degrees inside. I am going to hang in there. Candled today and still looks good, but too early to tell.
This happened yesterday. I will try to remember to keep you posted on the results. But it makes sense it could work, especially the youngest incubated eggs that have not spread their veins all over yet.
I don't produce enough eggs yet to send. But I could accept some eggs if someone wants to send me some. How about Cornish, rocks and/or muscovy ducks! Oh, what the heck; how about macaws, cockatoos or caiques!! chuckle.

Thanks for posting this intriguing topic.
Two Lyon Electric incubators, and lots of experience incubating eggs.

I'm happy to supply the Macaw eggs... unfortunately Max doesn't have a hubby, so they are quite likely to be all 'clears'... ROFL!
sorry, just had to...

 

[bayerchicks]

Did you find anything that could help patients with MD? The only reason I ask is I know 2 young men that are affected by it and one just went into congestive heart failure last year. We pray daily that someone will make some kind of progress in finding a cure or ways to slow down the muscle deterioration.

I'm thankful for people like you

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Growth factors that could work together to induce the formation of muscle from progenitors in the somites. In the bigger picture... a cure for muscular dystrophy.

 

[JustAChickenLittle&More]

Same here! I got eggs from someone that were incubated for 3 days as well. Best hatch I ever had. And they were Silkies! Contribute some eggs and I'll be your guinea pig. I 'll be glad to do it. I really don't need any more at present; but I have sussex, silkies, cochins, frizzles, buff orphingtons, and polish. So if anyone has any of those send um on. Just mark on the egg what day you collected it and whats supposed to hatch.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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No I don't believe any of the commentators believe shipping an egg which has been incubated three days makes "the egg stronger inside an better able to take shipping." it's all about shipping fertile eggs.

The question is how does a setting hen hatch all of her eggs with in a 12-18 hour time period instead of however number of days it took her to lay the eggs?

Joe

This has came up many many times on here an this is the first thread that I remember talking about fertility checking being the reason for it. All the others were talking about it helping the egg handle shipping better.

It all sounds like a bad Idea to me ether way but I have seen it talked about enough to know there may be something to it. Just from memory by the way but I think most of the other threads about this were talking about incubating between 24 an 48 hours not 3 days.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

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Hi! I'm sorry, I don't remember reading about it except in passing before this thread. I must've just skipped over it or it was buried in a long thread (long threads lose me).
I'm happy for any information or links.
Thanks!

Lisa