January Egg Swap Addresses Sent

[BHep]

I question the warmers ............... would keeping them warm, start the incubation ???? One of those questions I can never get a straight answer on.

 

[chickgrowerdan]

I'm in. First time swapper.

 

[mrheinz77]

We have a few first time swappers. Be careful, this is addictive?

As far as heat packs, I will not use them. I have been shipping eggs in the cold and have not had problems with the hatches. They are actually hatching better than summer shipped eggs.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I asked my boyfriend if he would leave me if I hatched again so soon, he said no so.... I'm in for 2 six-packs.

Sent you a PM, Jim.

This is my first swap that I'm participating in.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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x2... I've sent eggs from here many times in the winter, haven't had a frozen egg, yet. I've only had a few frozen eggs that burst in the coop - it has to get REALLY cold for that to happen. I've had broodies hatch out eggs in sub-zero temps before, and been off their nests for a few hours before I find them and make their world right. The hotpacks kind of scare me - they can get really hot and when they cool off the drop in temperature in the box will be pretty great. I'd rather just stick with one temp - I firmly believe that cool/cold is better than warm/hot for shipping.

 

[bikerchic]

Ok, I have never done a egg swap . . I got the rules down. So put me down X2!!

let the new addictions start!!

 

[mrheinz77]

Just PM me your information and you will be in.

 

[9Catsz]

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I say it would start incubation for the first 12 hours and then it would stop when the warmer 'died'.

I use them to ship reptiles in the winter and those things get hot, hot, hot. They get so hot, in fact, that we tape them to the underside of the lid and then put several layers of newspaper and packing material between them and then put the reptiles on the very bottom of the box, as far away from the heat as possible. They get to around 110 degrees and stay that way for 10-15 hours which is fine for reptiles because we ship them out at 4-5 p.m. via FedEx next day with a "guaranteed next day by 10:30 a.m. delivery time". The heat packs are usually luke-warm to cold by that time. Oh and the reptile boxes have 3-4 air holes whereas a box with eggs doesn't.

Heat packs would be pretty useless for shipping eggs via the USPS when it takes 2-3 days to get somewhere. I think it would cook them in the first few hours and, if it didn't, the eggs would still have at least 2 1/2 days w/o any heat.

Eggs can take more cold than most people (even me) think. I had a silkie get out of the fence 3 days in a row. The 4th day I found her escape route and plugged it. A day later I found a nest of 3 silkie eggs outside the fence. The temps at night had been in the low 20s that entire week. Day temps were 30s- low 40s and it sleeted all night one night. So one of the 3 eggs had been out in the cold for 5 days, another for 4 days, the third for 3 days. I popped all 3 in the incubator and all 3 hatched on 12/23!

 

[PeeperKeeper]

Nix to warmers then....I'll just use a BIG box with lots of bubble wrap as insulation.

I'm getting Eggcited...is that the beginnings of Hatch Addiction?

 

[9Catsz]

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Yep and, as far as I know, there is no known cure.