The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[La Casa de Pollo]

Let me show you why not on Fed Ex....looking..

he he, I'm full of fun stuff today...ey?   :/

Oh dear lol!

 

[kbarnes]

My eggs are here. The last ones I was waiting for.... So it looks like I will be setting Thursday early.

 

[Cynthia12]

Hatch rates will be lower for eggs older than 2 weeks. Shipped eggs should not be older than 7 days because of the added stress from shipping.

Older eggs will still hatch--I would not set eggs older than 30 days and if I did I would watch them very closely for rotting.

Thank you ron for this information!

reposting... early

 

[Cynthia12]

Ok Lisa, here is one with UPS towards the end...this is the last one everyone, I promise. I guess we can blame the ..handling...of packages at times! Glad I have great in town P.O. workers. They call me when my eggs come. I just call them and let them know that I have eggs coming on a certain day or two. (they kind of know me by now) I know the folks that ship my eggs, do their best for safe shipping. They can't help what happens during shipment, no way.

Pretty sad.

 

[Junibutt]

Here is my dilemma and my little poll.

I am getting eggs from 3 different sources on different days. 18 today, 24 tomorrow and 24 on Friday. Shall I wait to set them all together or shall I set them as they come? If I set them as they come, I will end up with a staggered hatch and of course, different lock-down times and its complications. Whereas if I don't set them as they come, hatchability goes down in the first batch. So what is more risky? What do you guys vote for?

Set as you go = A
Set them together = B

 

[Cynthia12]

Jun, it's only a couple of days waiting, I would set them all on the same day. As long as they aren't sitting around for 7 days, if they were shipped.

 

[chicken pickin]

Here is my dilemma and my little poll.

I am getting eggs from 3 different sources on different days. 18 today, 24 tomorrow and 24 on Friday. Shall I wait to set them all together or shall I set them as they come? If I set them as they come, I will end up with a staggered hatch and of course, different lock-down times and its complications. Whereas if I don't set them as they come, hatchability goes down in the first batch. So what is more risky? What do you guys vote for?

Set as you go = A
Set them together = B

I vote B. That is what I would do.

 

[draye]

Ok after seeing Cynthia's video, I have to ask...because it seems everybody uses USPS for shipping eggs, has anyone ever tried UPS or Fed ex, and if not why? Just wondering if they would be worse or better than USPS?

I've talked with UPS about this. If they even suspect eggs being shipped they won't touch it at all. Plus the fact I've seen packages handled at a UPS distribution center and I wouldn't want them to even touch a box if egg for me. Fedx I don't know.

 

[jbkirk]

Here is my dilemma and my little poll.

I am getting eggs from 3 different sources on different days. 18 today, 24 tomorrow and 24 on Friday. Shall I wait to set them all together or shall I set them as they come? If I set them as they come, I will end up with a staggered hatch and of course, different lock-down times and its complications. Whereas if I don't set them as they come, hatchability goes down in the first batch. So what is more risky? What do you guys vote for?

Set as you go = A
Set them together = B

B

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

I've talked with UPS about this. If they even suspect eggs being shipped they won't touch it at all. Plus the fact I've seen packages handled at a UPS distribution center and I wouldn't want them to even touch a box if egg for me. Fedx I don't know.

Interesting! I always wondered why nobody uses the others.