Shipped Hatching Eggs Arrived Today- PICTURES

[suebee]

Great learning post. We all need to see shipping experiments.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Is it coincidental that the well bubble-wrapped eggs are developing at a better %?

 

[MobyQuail]

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hmmm, maybe, but they also had the shortest distance to travel. panama city to gainesville florida...

I should have put that in the first description... the orloffs had the furthest to travel, the bantam rir and quail eggs the shortest. the other 3 are from the midwest? wherever that is

I kinda also expected the memory foam packed eggs (bantam barred rocks) to be indestructible...and the Marans eggs (ohio)- I woulda pegged them all goners- as I tossed a stinkyyyyy rotten one the other day.

 

[MobyQuail]

Data:

set 5/13:

11 marans
9 RCRIR
7 bantam orloffs
15 bantam barred rocks
12 bantam rir
18 backyard, blue-barred EEs

candled @ day 7- 5/20:

8/11 marans- leaving 8 darkeggers
4/9 RC RIR- leaving 4 hopefuls
1/7 bantam orloffs- leaving 1 warrior
5/15 bantam barred rocks- leaving 5 champs
9/12 bantam RIR- leaving 9 mohawks
17/18 backyard, blue-barred EEs

hatched 6/2, 6/3 and 6/4:

5/11 marans
2/9 RC RIR
0/7 bantam orloffs
1/15 bantam barred rocks
1/12 bantam RIR
14/18 backyard, blue-barred EEs

 

[MobyQuail]

another experiment...

quail eggs shipped from kansas on 6/27 arrived 6/29 and set in the 100` incubator, no turning for 36-48 hours.

The flight distance from Kansas (KS) to Florida (FL) is:
1,140 miles / 1,834 km

The daytime heat was over 100 degrees.


first airlift from hatcher to brooder saw 13 chicks.

kinda amazing, how it goes from this...6/29 @ 2300

to this...7/16 @ 2300

set them in the bator as soon as we got them, did not turn for ~36-48 hours.