Storing eggs in auto turner while collecting ~updated with new ?

[GaNewChick]

I read that here. Is that a good way to store them or are other methods better?

Thanks!!!!!!!

 

[okiecountrygirl]

Well i just posted I received fertile eggs in the mail to put under my broody but she wont stay on them even locked her up but she refuses. so I brought them in and put then in my turner in a box until I can figure out what to do.
Cant really afford another bator but I will get one if I have to.
These are silkies from a excellent bloodline I dont want to screw this up.
I think your eggs will be fine I have heard so far up to 2 weeks they are still viable I tend to agree.
gl

 

[ColbyNTX]

That will work just fine. Just keep them out of the sun in a cool place. Room temp is fine.

 

[dancingbear]

I would just put them in an egg carton, small end down.

The reason I would not put them in the turner: If it's in the bator, you'll have to take all the eggs out when you fire it up and get the temp stable.

If it's not in the bator, you'll have to put it in the bator, and again, for safety of the eggs, you'll need to take them out while you move it, set it up, get the temp up, etc.

If you just put them in the carton until you're ready to set them, that's less handling, less jarring, less chance of dropping and breaking them.

When you get the temp stable, and it stays that way 24 hrs,(with the turner in place and running) add your eggs. The temp will drop. LEAVE IT ALONE, do not adjust it. It may take about 24 hrs to get back up to temp. If you adjust it, you get a temp spike as the eggs warm up.

Does that help? Good luck with your hatch!

 

[GaNewChick]

Thanks, these girls are laying eggs all over the place. She had started a nest at the base of a tree between my neighbor's driveway and mine, There were 5 yesterday, 1 broken, 4 intact. Today, 2 eggs intact. She has abandoned that nest and has now laid one in the bed of a pickup that we don't drive often. Its sitting in the driveway. I guess I'll let her lay another one tomorrow and pull up one a day and leave one there. Will that work? I don't want her hatching them in the bed of a pickup truck.

They'll never survive once hatched, the other hens and roosters will kill them.

 

[dancingbear]

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I'm not quite sure what you mean. If the hens are laying eggs all over, when would just pick up one and leave one there? Will that work, to do what?

If you don't have a broody, why would you leave any eggs laying around anywhere? Why would you leave any in the bed of the pick-up truck? When they aren't broody, they won't just decide to sit an an egg because you left it there.

Do you have a coop? Nest boxes?

Why would any chicks never survive? Have your chickens got a history of attacking and killing all the chicks? There are exceptions, but most hens protect the chicks they hatch. Have your hens ever hatched eggs any before?
I've got over 30 chicks of various ages running around with 36 adult chickens right now. Plus 7 keets, 4 poults, and 2 baby ducks. They are all surviving just fine.

 

[GaNewChick]

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I'm not quite sure what you mean. If the hens are laying eggs all over, when would just pick up one and leave one there? Will that work, to do what?

If you don't have a broody, why would you leave any eggs laying around anywhere? Why would you leave any in the bed of the pick-up truck? When they aren't broody, they won't just decide to sit an an egg because you left it there.

Do you have a coop? Nest boxes?

Why would any chicks never survive? Have your chickens got a history of attacking and killing all the chicks? There are exceptions, but most hens protect the chicks they hatch. Have your hens ever hatched eggs any before?
I've got over 30 chicks of various ages running around with 36 adult chickens right now. Plus 7 keets, 4 poults, and 2 baby ducks. They are all surviving just fine.

I've walked around my property and the neighbor's and am finding broken eggs in several places, which means they aren't finding a safe place.

She is broody, but is unsuccessful in finding a safe place to make a nest. So, I was going to let her lay for the next 5 to 7 days and gather the eggs, but leave one each day so she'll keep coming back. She was on a nest 2 weeks ago, and she was run off of it, I assume by a raccoon. I brought her remaining eggs in and was able to hatch 4 ouf of 8.

These birds are not tame *strays when a neighbor moved out last year*. She hatched out 10 earlier this year, by day 5 ... they were all gone. I'm guessing the others attacked them. Roosters maybe?

 

[dancingbear]

I see. I didn't know what the situation was. It might have been the other chickens, but could just as easily, (and more likely) have been predators of some sort. You mentioned raccoons, I had a problem with those earlier this year. One of my mom guineas had 17 keets, and they were fine for about 3 weeks. I thought they were home free, then a band of raccoons struck. In 4 days, she lost all but 3. I trapped the coons, one at a time, and made them go far, far, away. (To a place nowhere near any human habitations, so I did not give the problem to somebody else.)

Usually moms are able to keep other chickens from bothering their chicks. They normally have a few quick scuffles, and then the others leave them alone.

If she's laying eggs, she's not still broody. They don't lay while broody. Sounds like maybe she was broody, lost her nest, and is no longer broody. If she was broody, she would be setting somewhere, good spot or not.

So are you trying to get her to set again, or just trying to get her to lay in one consistent spot?

 

[bargain]

Good early morning.....Please don't store up eggs for 2 weeks and expect good hatches....I will not store more than 3 days for home use....IiThe eggs are not as viable as fresh eggs after 6 or 7 days.

I store my personal eggs flat in a basket and rotate them so that they don't get stuck to one side!

Be blessed and have a blessed day.

 

[GaNewChick]

Well, she is laying one a day in the back of the pickup. I pulled the one she laid yesterday and leaving her the one she laid today, etc. etc.

If I leave them all in there she rolls them around and cracks them. I did find a teacher who is looking for eggs to incubate in class, so I'm waiting on a response from him and hope to donate some to his class. If she continues to lay more, I guess I'll incubate them myself.

When it comes close to *enough* should I place golf balls in there to fool her into thinking she has enough?

Thanks!!!!!!!