I am super egg-cited! I have fertile eggs arriving TODAY! Yay!
I have a question about the process... I had bad luck with shipped eggs in the past and I am wanting to do things to the letter to get better results.
I usually number and candle my own or local eggs before sticking them under the hen. Easy enough.
For the eggs I put in an incubator, I number and candle, but also weigh them, and note the air sac, so I can watch the humidity.
But shipped eggs are supposed to rest for 24 hours before putting them under the hen or in the incubator....So...
Do I rest the eggs for 24 hours, THEN number/label and set? Or label and number, THEN REST, then set? Or maybe it doesn't matter? I don't know... I just don't want a batch of eggs to get wrecked.
Most of them will go under my broodies. But as luck has it, one of my 3 broodies decided to stop being broody yesterday, after being broody for over a week. (smh) So I will be putting several in the bator...
Thanks!
I have a question about the process... I had bad luck with shipped eggs in the past and I am wanting to do things to the letter to get better results.
I usually number and candle my own or local eggs before sticking them under the hen. Easy enough.
For the eggs I put in an incubator, I number and candle, but also weigh them, and note the air sac, so I can watch the humidity.
But shipped eggs are supposed to rest for 24 hours before putting them under the hen or in the incubator....So...
Do I rest the eggs for 24 hours, THEN number/label and set? Or label and number, THEN REST, then set? Or maybe it doesn't matter? I don't know... I just don't want a batch of eggs to get wrecked.
Most of them will go under my broodies. But as luck has it, one of my 3 broodies decided to stop being broody yesterday, after being broody for over a week. (smh) So I will be putting several in the bator...
Thanks!
