Letting eggs "rest"

[racuda]

Is this bit of folk wisdom really true? Has anyone ever done an experiment incubating half straight from shipping and the other half "rested"? What is the difference letting them rest on the counter and letting them rest under a hen, other than about 25 degrees?

 

[ihvpower]

LOL I like the way you said that...and am curious to know myself!

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

The hen doesn't shake up the eggs like the mail service does. So we let them settle(rest) and catch their breath before putting them in the bators. So to speak.

Yes, people have discovered that by letting them rest after being shipped, they have better hatches. So it has been tested by many many people that have been hatching shipped eggs over 50 years or more.

 

[CindyG]

It's to do with the air cell getting back in the right place isn't it?

 

[ihvpower]

Yes Cindy, that is what I have been told and believe to be true..

 

[racuda]

What I mean is, if I get a box of eggs from the post office, and immediately put them in an incubator or under a hen, aren't the eggs then "resting"? How is that different from resting on my kitchen table? If it is about orienting the eggs big end up so the air cell can reattach, well, you can do that in an incubator.

 

[racuda]

BTW, I got some Serama eggs this morning, and I AM resting them, just to be sure!

 

[Surehatch]

It's all about the air cell - hence the importance of turning eggs

 

[Inkheart]

Ok newbie question - when you let the eggs "rest" where are you storing them? temperature wise and so forth ?
Thanks!

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

How long should you let them rest before incubating? First time ordering eggs (BLRW) and I'M expecting them next week.