Storing eggs for incubation - until you get enough

[tia]

Where do you store eggs that you plan to incubate? I know the refrigerator is too cold. It is also too cold outside here. What temperature to you store them at? I was thinking about my unheated garage that goes from 50 to 60 degrees. Do you think that would be okay. Any special info I should know about storing them. Do you have to move them around? Should it be large end up or laying down?

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

we store ours in the basement, but if you don't have one I guess I would pick a closet becasue our closets tend to stay cooler than the house if the doors are closed.....in the winter time anyway. We tilt our eggs on another egg carton or book. 1-2 times a day I tilt them the otherway.

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

store them in an egg carton, pointy side down in the garage and put something under one end (a book or something else a couple/few inches tall) then switch ends a couple of times/day. Good luck

 

[onthespot]

I put mine pointy end down in an egg carton. They fit really well in a large flat rate box, six of them. Then you can just tip the box and viola! You have turned six dozen eggs in about a second. I keep mine in the kitchen cupboard.

 

[tia]

Thanks - it is about that time, so I think I will start saving up.... pretty exciting.

 

[duckyfromoz]

I have a little plastic tray that I keep in front of my incubater on the table. That way I remember to turn the eggs each time I turn the ones already in the incubator. My incubator is in my spare room inside the house.


Good luck with the collecting...and the incubation...