Shipped eggs!!! Incubation tips wanted and needed

[JaeG]

Sounds great, then I candle one or two of the five trays that I have in the incubator within two to three days without any harm done t the eggs.

Sounds like a plan.

There are many reports on this site of eggs left cold for 24 hours or more (one was 60 hours) and still chicks hatched out.

 

[Kiki]

View attachment 1226482 I just recieved my first batch of hatching eggs! They are marans, silkies, olive eggers, and Wyandottes and I candles them and most have a saddle bag air sack. They are chilling out getting acclimated now. I figured I would take y’all along the whole incubation and see if with your help and tips we can get any to hatch. What are my odds any hatch? Also I have an auto turner but they have to be on their side to do so so should I just manually turn them with them being pointy end down? Any help is appreciated. The incubator is at 100 degrees and also 40 percent humidity.

How did this hatch turn out?

 

[omoige]

Candling seems to be an art needing mastery. During my candling process, I had to let go about 50 eggs last night due to several reasons. Possibly, some are wrong reasons.
I selected rejected eggs based on the look of the inside formation. What was I looking for? Any egg that is as clear as it looked the day it went into the incubator is automatically ejected, i am looking for a sign of life in the form of the black dot inside the yoke. If the blood web/line seems dried, I throw them out. Also, total black inside and liquidy is rejected as well. I also let some go because the air sack rolls around too much.

Please let me know if my selections are correct or have I prematurely killed some innocent eggs that would have given me chicks.

 

[omoige]

And THE DAY is finally here. My birds started coming out of their shells late last night. I think I am a so happy to tell you that I have beaten the odds of problems associated with shipped eggs, as I carried more than 200 eggs across the Atlantic on a journey spanning 24 hours, 3 plane rides, and and no less than 3 Airports X-rays. Well if you loo at the percentage that hatched from the total number of eggs, to some it may be a failure. Mind you I have traveled the same route with 125 eggs with only three hatching.

So far, 60 eggs have hatched successfully from a total of about 240 eggs. today is the 21 day. I still have about 1 hours to go.

It is a combination of different breeds starting with Ayam Cemani, Rhodebar, Light Sussex, La Bresse, Light Brahma, White Rock, Barred Rock, Delaware, White Leghorn and a few others. See attached pictures

 

[chantels1]

I have hatched about 4 sets of shipped eggs and have gotten between a 40-75% hatch rate. It all depends on how they were packed, how long it took them to ship, the temp during shipping, and about 1000 more variables as to what the percentage of them will hatch for you. Crazy, right?!

This is great to know. How far was the distance shipped? I have eggs coming from Florida to California. Trying to determine a method to use to incubate them. Can you share what you did/did not do?

 

[gimmie birdies]

I shipped eggs to FL from WA state once, they got there in one day, and the lady in FL lived in the back country. And they came unbroken.