"Settling" Shipped Eggs: Necessary? With Auto-Turner?

[mabhera]

I'm trying the 7 days with no turning method also. Dry incubation. Hope this helps. My eggs are on day one in the bator. Crossing my fingers to see what I get .

 

[Lucky1]

I should be getting Button Quail eggs today or tomorrow, how long should they be in the incubator not turning since it is only a 16 day incubation period?
Thanks

 

[Eifelhexe]

hope this method works out for you,
for me it didnt sadly they didnt even start to develope
but at least it was worth a try.

 

[chicksooner]

So glad I found this. So much information. I ordered eggs and had no clue how complicated it was to hatch let alone hatch shipped eggs. I am biting my nails now.

 

[rarebear]

I have never hatched before in my life. I ordered eggs here on byc. I ordered 6 blue wheaten amerucanas, 6 salmon favorelles and 6 golden cuckuu marans. I knew it was a risk but I needed eggs and really wanted these breeds. The eggs were delayed at the PO. They were collected on the 14 th and I received them on the 19th. When I received them, I was devestated. First of all, I found them laying sideways on my son's atv out in the front yard.... Nice place for a mail man to leave a package very clearly marked FRAGILE not once but 2x on EACH side of the box in black sharpie marker in large letters with the words "live hatching eggs" on the top. The box was tied in a see through tinted grey garbage bag that I think was put on by the PO. Inside the bage, the box was smashed up.

I ran inside and candles the eggs. I could not see anything in the maran eggs and pretty much nothing in the salmon faverolles eggs (light brown) but in some of them i could faintly see a bubble running down the side. I could see into the blue wheaten amerucana eggs very well and saw that every egg had a detached air sac that rolled around the entire egg from one end to the other.

I started reading and based on many threads came up with a plan! I placed the eggs in the room in an egg carton for 12 hours so they could acclimate to room temp and not go into shock. I then put the in the egg turner straight up and down (took me hours of running it to just happen to catch the turner in the right position so I could turn it off) and unplugged. I am going to let the eggs sit without turning for 7 days. I am running the incubator at 30 to 35% humidity. I am not candling as tempted as I am until day 7 (I am on day 3). If any of them make it to lockdown, I will hatch upright in a cut down egg carton.

Based on everything I have read this seems to be the hail Mary way of trying to hatch these eggs. We will see.

I am just reading this post and would love to know how your hatch went? I had 2 hatches last year that were good. I had one with very expensice eggs a month ago where they all died or never started. I did a ton of reading as well and am doing exactly what you are doing here. I wouod so apprecioate you letting me know if it worked. By the way..my eggs are shipped to NC and ALWAYS sit in the sorting venter in Charlotte for 2-3 days before coming to Asheville. Is you ever have problems again this is the agency that handles complaints against the Post Office.
[email protected] Jill

 

[scheelgrl]

I had a box of blrw arrive close yo the time this thread was started and followed a similar path - i acclomated them for 12 hours and placed them straight up and down in the turner, kept a temp of 99.5 and 40 hum. and plugged the turner in on the 7 day mark. all had detached sacs. three started development, one made it to lock down, and none came out of the bator i am not crazy about shipped eggs. But the batch i tried previously came from closer, i let them set 8 hours then pur em in and started turning - my first try at incubating and i came out with two out of eight! both boys and turned into dinner. most expensive chicken roast ever lolol . Heres to hoping the bator angels are watchimg over you!

 

[rarebear]

I had a box of blrw arrive close yo the time this thread was started and followed a similar path - i acclomated them for 12 hours and placed them straight up and down in the turner, kept a temp of 99.5 and 40 hum. and plugged the turner in on the 7 day mark. all had detached sacs. three started development, one made it to lock down, and none came out of the bator

i am not crazy about shipped eggs. But the batch i tried previously came from closer, i let them set 8 hours then pur em in and started turning - my first try at incubating and i came out with two out of eight! both boys and turned into dinner. most expensive chicken roast ever lolol . Heres to hoping the bator angels are watchimg over you!

Thank you...I am freaked out as I have all new therms ..that were suggested by others here...my incubator was 106 in one corner and 92 in the other...I can't win...and that is with fans and turners

 

[mollybuck]

I just joined yesterday.. i wish i would have a week ago! my dad bought BLRW eggs and had them shipped, then he decided to let me hatch them, i have never even tried to hatch anything! I let them sit like he said for a day, but then they went into the bator with a tuner and fan, and no reduced humidity, i will do that when I get home... and I didnt candle them before. There are also local eggs in there too...and I candled some.. some had development, but some we couldnt tell...

I hope some of them hatch!

 

[Angelak]

So I went out on a limb n got eggs off ebay,due this thurs.I havr no air @home except for fans,so my question is when eggs arrive do I candle?how long do I let them settle n how incubator or egg carton,does incubation start when I recieve them or when I put in incubator with turners on? I have had only 2 geese hatch out of all the eggs ive
tried hatching,but these eggs r
peacocks so I want sucess!
Also what does humidity start on n fir how many days.Im using a genisus styrofom incubator with fan