In other news... gah, am I really taking up 3 posts with my chatter? Then again I guess it's been relatively quiet here so maybe it's ok. Anyway, in other news, I ordered some serama eggs off
ebay. I figured since I shipped some eggs, I should also have the experience of hatching shipped eggs.
This has been an interesting adventure. Eggs arrived with air cells that were either invisible or looked like spirit levels or multiple bubbles. They'd been picked up by USPS at seller's house (lol) and then driven to my house as well rather than held for pickup. So they were good and jostled.
I let them set overnight and then started them upright in quail trays, and started hand turning after a couple days, just tilting side to side.
Well, I'm on day 11 now with the eggs. One was a really early death or possibly infertile (I think I did see a bit of a red spot inside the egg the first time I candled). Second was an early death, blood ring. I've got another one that looks like it quit a few days ago (leaving in another day or two just to be sure). And so far the rest are fertile and cooking right along! I started with 9 eggs and have 6 live ones. Most of them look like air cells have stabilized. At least one was still looking wonky when I candled last night.
I say at least one because they all have a strange aspect to them compared to incubating my own eggs. But I'm just completely blown away that you can ship eggs in the heat of summer from Louisiana all the way to Oregon, over two days, allowing them to be bumping around in a hot truck for hours, sitting on a hot porch or mail box before pickup for hours, and then have any that are viable. I'm actually starting to wonder whether some of these might make it to hatch. If they do, I'll come back and post about it!
Let's see what pics I have kicking around on the ol' phone...
