Percent of hatching shipped eggs!

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PeterHer said:
What percentage would you guys say or rate..on shipped hatching eggs? and successfully hatched them? First time ordering a little over a dozen and a half eggs from 2 different people on eBay and after 7 days in the incubator..none is showing any signs..all the eggs I put in from my hens are developing already! Experienced shipped eggs hatcher..where are you guys at? What happened to my eggs? All comments welcome..thank you!
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I'm right there with ya, have gotten 3 different shipments of eggs so far that have not been very successful. I have 4/13 that are developing & weren't scrambled from one shipment. 0/8, all clear on day 7 candling, not certain if they were ever fertile. And 12 that are a darker shell that I couldn't see veins in on day 7 candling. Will candle again on day 14 to see if anything is growing.
 
MisfitMarie said:
I had a shipped order of 10 Crested Cream Legbar eggs.... none of them made it. =( Four of them never developed, and four were very early deaths. Two sailed straight through into lockdown, but never pipped. I'm still fairly new to incubating, but my last batch of Black Copper Marans did wonderfully and under the same conditions. I guess I must have failed these eggs somehow. 

I won't lie. It was a huge bummer. Apparently, there are some fertile Cream Legbar eggs available about three and a half hours from me. I think it'll be worth the drive!
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Sorry about your eggs. It's very frustrating, just tossed another 5 shipped eggs last night :(
 
ChickenLady2014 said:
Sorry about your eggs. It's very frustrating, just tossed another 5 shipped eggs last night
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Yeah, definitely frustrating. But also makes me more determined to hatch some eggs!
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I knew going in that it was a huge risk. Shipping has to be extremely hard on the eggs. I was hoping for a 50% hatch rate, at best.

I think what you went through with the completely clear eggs would really frustrated me... even more so if they never ended up being fertile.

At least when I DO manage to hatch some eggs here shortly, I'll be that more excited about them.
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ShelbyCoral said:
I have had 120 shipped quail eggs in the incubator... not one hatched... I've had 4 dozen chicken eggs shipped, none even developed... 50 Geese eggs and 1 developed and hatched.... My luck is bad. Is there some sort of secrete to this?
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That sounds awful.... ....
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Shipped egg orders of any kind aren't cheap. =(

What is your incubation method?
 
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maranfarmer563 said:
Do you hatch the dry method. I've hatched eggs for 40 years. I always did the wet method. This fall I tried the dry method. It works great. You put the eggs in but no water til day 18.
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That's a great suggestion, maranfarmer! I, too, switched to the dry method after a failed clutch of Cream Legbars. We'll see how it goes! But I've heard excellent things about it! In retrospect, my first incubation attempt was actually with some Black Copper Maran eggs I bought off of Ebay. They traveled all the way across the country hatched with excellent results (two were clears). But the entire time, my humidity was pretty low...until lockdown. My monitor ended up reading about 20 percent higher than what my humidity actually was, so unintentionally use the dry method. =P
 
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