Shipping delays with one of my egg orders, thinking through options...

[Chad Oftedal]

Hello!

I ordered three batches of hatching eggs online, each from different sellers (just how it worked out). All sellers shipped last Thursday, and two of my orders arrived yesterday (Monday). Those eggs have been removed from their packing and put in egg cartons next to the incubator and are just hanging out. Late this afternoon will be 24 hours of resting for them. The third box has gone delayed. I was hopeful that it'd be coming today as it is close by (next city over) and hit the USPS processing center last night. However, it still isn't listed as out-for-delivery yet, so likely tomorrow. They could be slow in updating the tracking, but I'm preparing as if it'll be tomorrow.

I have a Nurture Right 360 incubator up and running, holding desired temp and humidity. What I'm trying to work through:

• if I should start the 16 eggs I have now later tonight, and order a second incubator which would arrive on Friday
• let the eggs that have arrived early have bonus rest time until the late arriving ones get their 24 hour rest. Assuming the late ones get here on Wednesday, that'd mean everyone goes into the incubator Thursday night. That would be three full days of rest for the early eggs, one day for the late eggs

The late arriving eggs should have been collected on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, then shipped on Thursday. For additonal context, I'm doing this for fun to add some birds to my flock. They aren't rare breeds or specialty eggs in any way, they're Rhode Island Red, Buff Orpington and Speckled Sussex. I absolutely want to give them the best chance at it though. I just wanted to put out there that they're standard breeds.

Any thoughts?

 

[Yardmom]

No need for another incubator (they are not going to hatch to far apart)
I would probably just wait a day or two and put all eggs in together.
Another option just add the other eggs when they arrive. Lockdown a couple of days early on the later eggs should not be a problem. Age difference in the brooder shouldn't be enough to cause problems.

 

[Chad Oftedal]

OK, thanks! That sounds good.