The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[bantambury]

Yes, we have been experimenting.

There is not way to guarantee it but packing correctly really helps.

ok, thanks! I posted on the shipping experiment thred to see if anyone responds with their ways...

 

[NotAFarm]

Quote: The way I get mine to think about brooding is to remove the egg(s) laid each day and replace them with a golf ball (or plastic eggs filled with sand). Let the number of eggs build-up in the nest. Hens want to "gather" a clutch of eggs before sitting. If your hens have "the broody gene", they cannot resist a nest full of "eggs". Let the number build gradually, don't put a bunch of golf balls in at once. It is also helpful to use a nest that is not the favorite of every hen in the flock. If you do, the busy in and out will not allow her to settle on the nest..........of course, some hens could care less about the commotion and will sit anywhere when they are ready! I am counting on some of mine being ready around the end of the month.......

that no one decides to start earlier.....

 

[Hurley]

Count me in! I'll be setting that weekend, anyway, so may as well joint along.

I'll have Iowa Blues and some IB crosses. Hatcher and Incubators are fired up and doing pretty well thus far, here's to a good hatch for everyone!

 

[Christabelle]

Those were not packed correctly.

Check out wishers packing method

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/738943/the-great-egg-shipping-experiment/1230#post_11427581

That box would not stand a 6 foot drop into a bin

Read the packing thread, contact the breeder and have them pack the way you want them packed!

I dunno, not sure they would have stood much of a chance anyway. The box was crushed. I am just sad because I'd been trying to get some to hatch for my mom for her birthday. Now it won't happen. I'll maybe look for some chicks. They were pretty eggs. I hope my brabanters for the Easter hath fair better.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Those were not packed correctly.

Check out wishers packing method

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/738943/the-great-egg-shipping-experiment/1230#post_11427581

That box would not stand a 6 foot drop into a bin

Read the packing thread, contact the breeder and have them pack the way you want them packed!

bummer
I shipped 14 eggs today. was going to send 16 but was out of the large bubble wrap I usually use to line the box around my bubble wrap pouches.
SO i put 14 in a box inside another box with small bubble around it.
I am trading Crele eggs for black penedesenca eggs




I filled the spaces with pieces of small bubble in between the eggs
this small box fit in the other box with bubble

 

[jbenson]

Cupids Delite has Bantam Lavender Ameraucanas as well as white ones and Bantam Dominiques. If you wanted you could cross the Lave Ams with the Doms and get Sexlink Black barred Olive Eggers split to Lavender. With a few generations more you could set the barring in Lavender and have Barred Lavender Olive Eggers.

Oh man, don't get me started. This might have to be next spring's hatching project. I'm already 70 eggs deep in this year's Rainbow Layers trying to make shades of green (though I will be interested to see what comes of the frizzle crossed with the blue/green layers.) It will be hard not to keep them all (I'm not allowed to, this is part project, part business).

 

[Happy Chooks]

My Call Duck, that I've been stalking made a nest today!!! I am so excited to go out there tomorrow and look. That egg is a long time in coming!!

Post office destroyed my mom's Am eggs :'(



So sad.

Awwww, bummer.

Count me in! I'll be setting that weekend, anyway, so may as well joint along.

I'll have Iowa Blues and some IB crosses. Hatcher and Incubators are fired up and doing pretty well thus far, here's to a good hatch for everyone!

Welcome!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Look Sally's got on her Chillin' With My Peeps Tee....Hmmm I gotta get one of those.

 

[bantambury]

The way I get mine to think about brooding is to remove the egg(s) laid each day and replace them with a golf ball (or plastic eggs filled with sand). Let the number of eggs build-up in the nest. Hens want to "gather" a clutch of eggs before sitting. If your hens have "the broody gene", they cannot resist a nest full of "eggs". Let the number build gradually, don't put a bunch of golf balls in at once. It is also helpful to use a nest that is not the favorite of every hen in the flock. If you do, the busy in and out will not allow her to settle on the nest..........of course, some hens could care less about the commotion and will sit anywhere when they are ready! I am counting on some of mine being ready around the end of the month.......

that no one decides to start earlier.....

AWESOME! thanks! I may just do this and get eggs last minute to hatch.....

bummer
I shipped 14 eggs today. was going to send 16 but was out of the large bubble wrap I usually use to line the box around my bubble wrap pouches.
SO i put 14 in a box inside another box with small bubble around it.
I am trading Crele eggs for black penedesenca eggs




I filled the spaces with pieces of small bubble in between the eggs
this small box fit in the other box with bubble

this relly helps me! I have a hatch participant interested in 6 of my sexlink and japie eggs. I DONT want any broken, since there will be so few eggs, but I could try and send more eggs along with.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Count me in! I'll be setting that weekend, anyway, so may as well joint along.

I'll have Iowa Blues and some IB crosses. Hatcher and Incubators are fired up and doing pretty well thus far, here's to a good hatch for everyone!

Quote:

so sorry

Again I will suggest that everyone REQUEST the way their eggs are chosen, packed and shipped. DONT BE AFRAID TO REQUEST THE ITEMS IN THIS LETTER BELOW!


paste from the hatching 101 article

The following Word File can be used when ordering shipped eggs, it is our suggestion that you copy/paste/edit to help you get the best eggs possible. Letter written by ozexpat

An open letter to egg shippers.doc 27k .doc file​