Incubating eggs on road trip

[Tevickens]

I need your guys’s help… I am incubating fertilized chicken eggs starting on July 16th (this Tuesday). I have a 3 hour car ride that I will be taking my incubator full of eggs on July 19th (this Friday). I have a power source that will keep the incubator running for the whole car ride. I am scared that they will get damaged from rolling around and the bumpiness. Is there anything I can do to keep them safe during the three hours? I’m desperate for suggestions/tips!

 

[SmiYa0126]

@Kiki ideas?

 

[DemeterAD9]

Any particular reason you have to take them with you? I'd be worried with all the movement in such early embryonic development. If these are fresh eggs rather than shipped eggs maybe wait a few more days and start them the day after your get to where you are going?

I think your best bet is to try placing them fat side up in egg cartons if they will fit inside the incubator during the drive. Maybe even place some paper towels to further cushion them and keep them from wiggling. Make sure the incubator is stored in the most stable area of the vehicle.

 

[Tevickens]

Any particular reason you have to take them with you? I'd be worried with all the movement in such early embryonic development. If these are fresh eggs rather than shipped eggs maybe wait a few more days and start them the day after your get to where you are going?

I think your best bet is to try placing them fat side up in egg cartons if they will fit inside the incubator during the drive. Maybe even place some paper towels to further cushion them and keep them from wiggling. Make sure the incubator is stored in the most stable area of the vehicle.

I have to take them with me because nobody will be able to fill up the water chamber for humidity and I will be gone for 3 full days not including the road trip days there and back

 

[Tevickens]

Any particular reason you have to take them with you? I'd be worried with all the movement in such early embryonic development. If these are fresh eggs rather than shipped eggs maybe wait a few more days and start them the day after your get to where you are going?

I think your best bet is to try placing them fat side up in egg cartons if they will fit inside the incubator during the drive. Maybe even place some paper towels to further cushion them and keep them from wiggling. Make sure the incubator is stored in the most stable area of the vehicle.

Thank you!

 

[TexasBlues]

I have to take them with me because nobody will be able to fill up the water chamber for humidity and I will be gone for 3 full days not including the road trip days there and back

Dry hatch seems safer than road hatch.

 

[Tevickens]

Dry hatch seems safer than road hatch.

Why?

 

[nuthatched]

Leave them at home.
Fill the water chamber, and build a drip system for your incubator if possible.
What type of incubatior?

 

[Debbie292d]

There is something called the shoestring method. Here's a thread about it.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/nuture-right-360-shoe-string-method.1577033/

Try this before you go so you can adjust it.

 

[TexasBlues]

Any kind of movement like road bumps is not good.
People dry hatch all the time w/o problems.