The Easter Egger is from my sister, she drove it to me, so that one I'm not so worried about, it has an extremely defined air cell and was taken good care of before it went into the incubator. The BPB and Jubilee Orp, I ordered from a kind woman in N Florida, she mailed Tuesday morning and they arrived Thursday a.m.. She packed everything nice, lots of paper, and each egg bubble wrapped with air on each side, and double boxed, none broke. I just forgot it was a govt holiday Monday and it delayed my shipment a day, we had a snow storm move in, so my eggs arrived on a morning when the temps went down to 23° and the little eggies were so cold when I unpacked them. (I was planning they'd arrive Wednesday which was an 80° day) I was afraid pourous meant frozen eggs. The shipper recommended I keep humidity low at about 30% for the first 4- 5 days and keep the autoturner off. I have been hand turning the lone Easter egger, and hope it isn't drying out too much. Thank you for giving me hope on the pourous ones, most of them are, and I thought it meant they were already bad since they are speckled and without air cells. And I saw a couple of detached air cells moving around on some. I'm thinking I'll put the autoturner in Tuesday morning before I go to work, that would be 3.5 days without turning and lowered humidity. I'm assuming I will have to boost the humidity up at that point so the porous ones don't dry out like you mentioned. Thank you for the recommendations, shipped eggs make me so nervous, sure hope I'm doing this right. Good to practice before my Easter Hatchalong Silkies arrive.
For how long?
