The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

[chickadoodles]

Hatching question....
My BAD I just put in the bator will go into LD on the 26th and hatch on the 29th
I also have BRT that will go into LD on the 28th and should hatch on the 31st
Do I need to take the BAD out and put them in another bator to hatch? I don't want to hurt any of them!

 

[Wisher1000]

What are BAD? If you have another (or need an excuse to buy one) it would be best to move them for lockdown. If not, just stop turning the ones that are locked down and increase the humidity and try to keep it high as you turn the others until your first pip. Then stop turning the others, leave the bator closed, and sit on your hands!

 

[chickadoodles]

What are BAD? If you have another (or need an excuse to buy one) it would be best to move them for lockdown. If not, just stop turning the ones that are locked down and increase the humidity and try to keep it high as you turn the others until your first pip. Then stop turning the others, leave the bator closed, and sit on your hands!

Sorry Wisher. BAD = Blue Andalusian. I was just wondering if the lock down and extra humidity will hurt or kill the Bourbon Red turkey that won't hatch for another 5 days? If it will hurt or kill them, I will have to do something else!
Thanks, Chicka

 

[Wisher1000]

I would do what I said above, but post on TGESE thread and see what Ron has to say.

 

[chickadoodles]

Thanks Wisher! What is the TGESE thread?

 

[Wisher1000]

The Great Egg Shipping Experiment

See, I would have thought you would get that one!

 

[chickadoodles]

The Great Egg Shipping Experiment

See, I would have thought you would get that one!

Ok. Ya got me!

TY

 

[ronott1]

Hatching question....
My BAD I just put in the bator will go into LD on the 26th and hatch on the 29th
I also have BRT that will go into LD on the 28th and should hatch on the 31st
Do I need to take the BAD out and put them in another bator to hatch? I don't want to hurt any of them!

They will all be fine. Wait until day 19 for the BAD Eggs to lock them all down and they should be fine.

BAD...That is so funny!

 

[chickadoodles]

They will all be fine. Wait until day 19 for the BAD Eggs to lock them all down and they should be fine.

BAD...That is so funny!

Thank you Ron! I did not know how to abbreviate the Blue Andalusians...

 

[kodster]

Do you have pictures of the packing? I would love to see how they were packed.

As promised, here are the pics of the packing for the Black Copper Marans I received today from Marans2XL.com! Took pictures of the box (stupid me, opened it first, but then just closed the flaps for the pic):


This is the top of the box, with the flaps opened, so you can see the top packing material. It's sheets of newspaper folded in on itself:



Underneath that layer of newspaper, are the eggs, individually bubble-wrapped, fat end up, with the breed marked on each egg on the fat end. The outer edges are cushioned with the same newspaper, folded as the top layer was, and there's a layer of the same folded newspaper under the eggs:


This is one of the eggs, close up:


You'll note in the pic of the eggs in the box, bubble-wrapped, there's 15 eggs. In this pic, there's only 14, because 1 of the eggs was broken and leaking in the middle of the top row of the box in the pic. In the 2 shipments of eggs I received from Marans2XL, this egg is the only one that was broken.


Out of the first dozen I received from Marans2XL, today is Day 10, and I've candled and weighed them. I culled 3 because 1 quit at Day 3, 1 was scrambled, and the 3rd one, I killed the embryo by accidentally dropping a turkey egg on it, cracking the shell

on Day 3. That leaves me 9 that are developing.

On a side note, I have 7 eggs in lockdown, today is Hatching Day, and 6 have pipped! 1 of those 6 is already zipping, and the 7th is still rockin' and rollin', so there's still hope for it! This is out of 57 eggs that I set 21 days ago.