November egg swap~~Check thread for updates on shipping!!

[Scraps]

Hey Kelly, 7 of the ducks are still goin'! I was afraid to ask what kind they are
but now that it looks like I'll get some of them to hatch...What kind are they?!

Not that it matters, all ducks are adorable

 

[mamawolf544]

I have 1 little quail this morning.

Hard to see but I think it might be a golden......
OK they are brown and now there are 3. The little buttons didn't hatch

but thats ok.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

ChooksChicks my eggies are hatching! My eggies are hatching!! Wellllllllll....they're pipping they're pipping!! ROFL!!!!


Laurie

 

[evonne]

i think my one little last egg is not gonna make it... the bator got down to 90 degrees and i didn't know and i don't know for how long.. i'm not sure what happened.. if one of the kids bumped the turner thing or what.. or if hubby is sabotaging things.. i hope not... i know he doesn't want more chickens.. but i don't think he'd do that....

but i candled and didn't see any movement.. but i'm going to give it a few more days just in case it happened to be resting...

but it wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't make it.. i think i'm just not going to be able to hatch shipped eggs.. this is batch #3 that i got 0 hatch...

hubby found someone near st george selling dark brown eggs for $2-$3 a dozen.... i might see if they have a roo and make a road trip to get some.. it's about 2 hours away.... lol.. probly should see how these cuckoo marans i have grow out first...

but me and my swapee.. birdmom may do a side trade in the spring... i hope she gets something to grow in the eggs she got from me....

 

[shelleyd2008]

I've read on here that shipped eggs benefit from lower humidity during incubation, something about the loosening of the air cells during shipping, combined with the humidity levels we use, make the chicks get too large. Maybe (if you get some more?) you can try doing a dry hatch, where you don't put any water in the bator during incubation unless the humidity gets below 25%. I have a terrible time hatching shipped chicken eggs, I still haven't figured it out.

 

[evonne]

i don't think i get much more than 25% with the water wells full... rofl.... i need to get something to check the humidity...

 

[jenjscott]

Well, I candled today, and had to throw out the lonely little ee egg, so no chickies for me.

 

[BirdMom]

Evonne, bummer that the last one looks like he's not going to make it. Weird that so many people on here are having trouble with their shipped eggs. Was it just abnormally cold when we were all shipping them or something? I should know in about four more days if the eggs you sent are developing. Keeping my fingers crossed! They're in the same bathroom as the ducklings I hatched from the last swap, and the ducklings love to talk, so they'll keep encouraging the chickies.

I have had the bator temp in other hatches go down as low as 90 and still got a decent hatch, and it was toward the end, so maybe he'll still make it, just a little slow.

 

[evonne]

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that's what i'm hoping, but i really don't think so.. i candled last night and there's still quite a bit of space.. the air cll is HUGE and i didn't see any movement.... i think it was slow to develop anyway and then

 

[farrier!]

Well....after being on the receiving end of a decent number of shipped eggs from here and from ebay I have noticed a couple of things.
1) How tightly eggs are packed make a difference. I have had bubble wrapped eggs and paper wrapped eggs. As long as they are snugly packed they will ship well. Scrambled air sacks come from eggs that are too loose. Often just being in an egg carton is not tight enough, they need something else wrapped around them. If the eggs can rattle at all then they will not make the trip well. It is well worth the extra time to cut a shipping box down so everything is snug rather then trying to throw in crumpled paper to take up space. Crumbled paper compacts as time goes on so what once was tight in no rattling. Distance traveled does not seem to impact the eggs, just how well they are packed.
2) This one is harder to "prove". High quality feed. I know it makes a difference in hatching rates of my quail. I have had good shipped eggs hatching results from eggs I know were getting high protein feed.