So disappointing...0% hatch

[Sylv]

Thanks,. I don't know how I would have known early on if there had been a problem

Candling them.

 

[cmom]

I don't candle before day 10 and most often not until I set the eggs in the hatcher at day 18 or 19. There is a thread with a post of pictures of the eggs as the chicks develop each day.

 

[Mosey2003]

Me too, cmom. If an egg seller is willing to give a rebate/exchange on infertile eggs, yet wants you to alert them before day 10.... I wouldn't like that much.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I think either the eggs were never fertile in the first place or they were too old to incubate. Since you held them for 3 days, add to that the shipping time and the eggs were already 5 days old IF all the eggs were laid the day they were shipped, which is doubtful.
As long as the eggs were fresh and fertile, and no temperature swings that went below 94F or above 104F, there should have been visible signs of development and with candling some growth would have been seen by day 7.

 

[cmom]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ng-pics-progression-though-incubation.261876/

 

[cmom]

I always send extra eggs when I ship eggs.

 

[cmom]

I usually do a test hatch prior to selling eggs.

 

[AlderCreekFarms]

True. I ship eggs from my lines and I have had eggs shipped to me. Often times I will put them in the incubator but don't turn the turner on until the next day. I have had good hatches and some not so good with shipped eggs. How they are packed also plays an important roll so they don't get scrambled in transit.
This is how I ship my eggs.
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I like the way you package those. I've thought if I ever ship eggs I would use those foam pads as well, even if they're more expensive. It shows you care about your product. Mine didnt come that way...

 

[cmom]

I buy huge sheets of foam and cut the holes depending on how many eggs I'm shipping.

 

[lazy gardener]

What do you use to cut the foam, and how much do you estimate it adds to your shipping cost to ship with the foam?