Shipping hatching eggs in this heat!

[Sylverfly]

Can hatching eggs shipped in this heat successfully hatch? If I order hatching eggs is there any chance they will develop in my incubator? Do they spend enough time in postal trucks and post offices to stay cool or will they heat up start to develop cool down at night and all arrive dead in the shell? Any one know or have a good hatch rate from eggs they had shipped during this heat wave?

 

[Aschenfire]

I personally think they will be fine. I am having eggs shipped to Texas this week, and considering most of the time they will be either in trucks or in buildings rather than sitting outside, I think they'll be ok. Just try to be home asap the day they are due to arrive so they don't sit out once they get to your place, and let them settle once they arrive...I've had good success with just leaving them settle for 12 hours before placing them in the incubator, though some folks say 24 hours to allow the air cels to re-align (hopefully). I just don't turn them for the first 24 hours or more.

As long as they're not sitting outside once they arrive, you *should* be safe. Maybe more experienced hatchers can lend more advice...this will only be my third hatch

 

[hamblen1997]

i got some serama eggs last week through mail and they are developing

 

[Sylverfly]

Thanks guys that makes me feel a little more comfortable with the idea. I'll have to plan on being home when they are supposed to come so they don't sit out in the sun and become hard boiled eggs.