The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

[ronott1]

Oz, do you have any pictures of how the sawdust-filled egg cartons look when they arrive? I am trying to understand how to accomplish this. Is it pretty fine sawdust?

I posted pictures of Sawdust egg packed by Hupp Farms way back when

It was a big old box filled with saw dust and covered with bubble wrap:



Eggs were wrapped in foam and taped with masking tape:



Close up of the egg wrapping



Chicks hatched too!

 

[ozexpat]

Oz, do you have any pictures of how the sawdust-filled egg cartons look when they arrive? I am trying to understand how to accomplish this. Is it pretty fine sawdust?

i have received some like rons pic but these were eggs placed in egg cartons, then the voids were filled with more like shavings than saw dust.

the cartons were 12 to a box, the box was three ply corrugated - thick.

i did not take pics

 

[Pozees]

i have received some like rons pic but these were eggs placed in egg cartons, then the voids were filled with more like shavings than saw dust.

the cartons were 12 to a box, the box was three ply corrugated - thick.

i did not take pics

Where did they come from? Like most, I have had varying hatch rates with shipped eggs, some dismal, and I believe in many cases you are correct to theorize the age of the eggs contributed as much as any other factor to low hatch rate. I have never received them in sawdust, though. For me, the best hatch rates have been from eggs wrapped in bubble wrap tube-stye, surrounded by packing peanuts, with all sides, top, and bottom covered with layers of bubble wrap.

 

[Pozees]

I posted pictures of Sawdust egg packed by Hupp Farms way back when

It was a big old box filled with saw dust and covered with bubble wrap:



Eggs were wrapped in foam and taped with masking tape:



Close up of the egg wrapping



Chicks hatched too!

That foam is interesting - I imagine it allows the eggs to exchange air better. Someone here in CO said her hatch rates improved when she persuaded shippers to wrap each egg in a barely damp piece of paper towel before the bubble wrap, attributing the success to the aridity of the climate here.

 

[ronott1]

That foam is interesting - I imagine it allows the eggs to exchange air better. Someone here in CO said her hatch rates improved when she persuaded shippers to wrap each egg in a barely damp piece of paper towel before the bubble wrap, attributing the success to the aridity of the climate here.

Thanks! That is a great idea to wrap the eggs.

 

[ozexpat]

Where did they come from? Like most, I have had varying hatch rates with shipped eggs, some dismal, and I believe in many cases you are correct to theorize the age of the eggs contributed as much as any other factor to low hatch rate. I have never received them in sawdust, though. For me, the best hatch rates have been from eggs wrapped in bubble wrap tube-stye, surrounded by packing peanuts, with all sides, top, and bottom covered with layers of bubble wrap.

theoretically thats best

but if eggs travel upside down......

 

[gimmie birdies]

nice to be able to go to the farm down the road. just picked up swedish flower hen eggs, last hatch was BCM.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

this is my first hatchery delivery - they ship for a living and i wanted to see how their eggs would turn out.

I was getting disillusioned with small time sellers. Going backwards, eggs should rest a day and spend 3 days traveling. That gives the supplier 3 days to collect your eggs. I will bet good money that many of the eggs we receive are older than 3 days.

i agree

 

[ozexpat]

nice to be able to go to the farm down the road. just picked up swedish flower hen eggs, last hatch was BCM.

indeed it must be nice but then where would the fun be in hatching 6 eggs when you can have a science experiment??

 

[ozexpat]

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ORIGIN
SET 7D VIABILITY
H Barred Plymouth Rock Egg 24 20
H Black Australorp Egg 24 19
E Black Australorp Egg 24 21
E Black Jersey Giant 13 10
B Blue Partridge Brahma 8 4
H Brown Leghorn Egg 24 22
B Buff Orpington 6 6
B Black Orps 15 13
E Crème Legbars 17 11
H Golden Sebright Egg 24 15
E Red Leghorn 6 4
B Silkie 3 0
E Speckled Sussex 12 6
E Speckled Sussex 12 5
B Salmon Faverolles 6 6
B Mutts 29 22
H White Crested Black Polish Egg 24 24
H White Leghorn Egg 21 8
H White Plymouth Rock Egg 22 20
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