Looking for about 6 incubated eggs

[bigbird]

Hello,
I'm looking for around 6 semi-incubated eggs.
I live around the Cinti, Ohio area, and I'm looking for about 6 chicken eggs that are fairly close to hatching.
I would like to put them under two chickens that are currently setting on duds. If anyone around this area could help me our, I'd really appreciate it.
I need them to be wirhin a short driving distance from me, so I could get them, and keep them warm in transit.
Thanks

 

[Free Feather]

You will probably kill the peeps during the transition.
Just give her unstarted fertile eggs, she will probably set the duration again. I have had a hen sit for three months straight.

 

[bigbird]

And going for two months straight without food or water won't cause her to die from hunger? If the eggs are kept a a heated temp for only an hour, do you really think they wouldn't survive?

 

[cppeace]

Brooding hens don't go without water and feed while they are broody they usually get off the nest for 10-30 minutes a day to eat, drink, bathe whatever.

 

[cppeace]

And also the cooling down would only kill a few most likely. overheating kills way more than cooling a bit. Cooling for the most part just slows down the hatch. The move itself though would have to be pretty gentle to be successful. Easy to scramble and kill a young embryo.

 

[bigbird]

I was going to call our local hatchery tomorrow, and see if the had eggs due to hatch next week. Would transit be easier for older embryos?

 

[cppeace]

No hatchery I know of would sale eggs that close to hatching and if they do they will charge the same price of the actual chick. It's the jostling around that damages/kills the embryos. They are very fragile at all stages of hatching but the first week is probably the most fragile. I agree to just let her start with fresh eggs if possible.

 

[Free Feather]

Have you considered trying an adoption?
Plenty of times I have swapped the hen's eggs for chicks at night. You just quietly and sneakily take the egg in the dark and slip a chick under her, and repeat every ten minutes or so if she accepts them. You have to be careful, but I have managed to do it with chicks as old as a week and a half - I have not tried older ones. Look it up.