What's your best hatch rate with shipped eggs, and did you do anything different with shipped compared to home grown? If your eggs came from a BYCer tells us who. Mottled d'Uccle, from wwmicasa1, shipped 13 d'uccles 10 hatched, plus added 2 cochin both hatched Silkies, from Dipsy Doodle Doo ?, 9 shipped, 7 hatched, none clear, also added 2 serama 1 hatched none clear. If there are detached air cells I keep the humidty at 50% at all times. Paula
Mine have varied from about 93% down to around 60%, though just once, I did have a 20% hatch on one particular batch (that's unusual, though) Most commonly, my rates are in the high 80's. I've had shipped eggs from BamaChicken, ginasmarans, HenHaven, hinkjc, seriousbill and jimmy47. If I remember anyone else, I'll edit this list.
I just hatched 8 out of 12 on shipped cuckoo marans eggs shipped from Ohio to here in North Idaho. All the eggs were fertile because my 3 culls all had tiny embryos and I drowned one chick in the egg during the end of my hatch due to a spike in humidity. These eggs were hatchery eggs from Meyers. They packed the eggs beautifully and it was a good experience overall. But now that I know more, I will get my next batch of eggs from a BYCer because they generally offer much better quality and a very fair price. Carolyn
