storing eggs to be hatched

[enola]

Can I store eggs that I plan to incubate in a styrofoam egg carton ?
or would a cardboard one be better ?

 

[Tuffoldhen]

I've used both. Just someplace nice and cool, 60s temp and you will be fine. Try to tilt them acouple times a day......

 

[twigg]

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Styrofoam is fine.

You want to keep them around 50 to 55F, large end up, and turn them once a day.

Turning them is as simple as propping one end up at 45 degrees, then reversing them.

 

[enola]

They are on the kitchen counter, right beside my incubator.

I plugged in my incubator this morning, right now it reads 100.2 F and 40% humidity. So far, so good, right ??

How long should I let it "do it's thing" before I put in my first eggs ?

 

[miss_jayne]

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doing great.

let it stay stable for a few hours and then you can load it up.

 

[enola]

Thank you Miss Jayne, you are my new best friend ! Well, maybe right after Nadine. (Nadine was my first enabler !)

By the way Nadine, I spent most of the day in my garage/"chicken house" cleaning, packing stuff up and rearranging.....

Boom-Boom is "doing his thing", if you get my drift.

So, in a couple of days, I will have eggs in the incubator, and we will be grandparents of little boom-booms !

 

[miss_jayne]

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okay, fine, but seriously, if i get bumped back to third place best friend, i might freak out.

 

[enola]

 

[EweSheep]

If you dont want to use cartons, you can sure use your egg turner on counter for the same purpose. Works for me!

 

[twigg]

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me too