INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[shahtir101]

bye guys gotta go

for all of you

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@ChickenCanoe
@Akrnaf2

HERE is my issue with the weigh eggs thing.....
When I weighed my own 7 day old eggs things are fine. Trouble is most people are incubating shipped eggs where the original weights are FAR FAR different than when we set our own. Number one issue being the way people pack everything in newspaper and cardboard without protecting the eggs from loosing weight. The ship leaving both ends of the bubble wrap open most times because that is WHAT is suggested to them. It is known through research that we can store eggs in plastic bags to help prevent the loss and the ph changes in the albumen. Anyways, if we are weighing for such accuracy how can we do so with such unknowns on the eggs themselves? Most times we set our own eggs are basically a A grade or AA grade egg. When we get them shipped they are most times well Beyond a B grade egg. If you look at the images below, that is already quite weight loss.

My issue is honestly telling people to weigh eggs on this unknown, I always try to tell them the perfect methods and back up everything I tell someone. This weighing of shipped eggs I just cant ever suggest to someone, esp a new hatcher....... I know how easy it is to say "it worked for me" but that would be just heresay..... am I making any sense in all that blabber above? I pray paddler you can seriously open my mind up here, as it is its not.

Sally, the eggs I just set today are my own, held for 6 days only before going in the 'bator. But my next hatch (next week) will be shipped eggs. The person I'm getting them from (on BYC) wraps them very well. Nonetheless, should I just monitor the air cell size for the second hatch? (Given my inexperience, I worry about my ability to recognize what would look right...)

- Ant Farm

 

[Sally Sunshine]

7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

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[LocalYokel]

7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

SPREAD THE NEWS PLEASE!

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[Sally Sunshine]

awesome Jack!

 

[LocalYokel]

awesome Jack!

Got yer back.

I tried to help in your absence, But I'm a nOOb.

 

[kwhites634]

Got yer back.

I tried to help in your absence, But I'm a nOOb.

And it was a fine job you did, too

 

[LocalYokel]

And it was a fine job you did, too

 

[Sally Sunshine]

bye guys gotta go

for all of you

Quote: if you can check tomorrow see what Benny and paddler and some others that weigh have to say about weighing, plus you wont really know what you have shipped until they come. I will try to remember to tag you should we get some comments.

Quote: x2 done good

 

[LocalYokel]

if you can check tomorrow see what Benny and paddler and some others that weigh have to say about weighing, plus you wont really know what you have shipped until they come. I will try to remember to tag you should we get some comments.

x2 done good