The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

[Jessshan8]

I love this pic! That little one in the front with the baby stink eye is too cute and the blue on the right has such a pretty face. Of course, fluffy butt, in the center is showing of it's greatest asset.......

Ron, how many of yours have feathered legs?

I so want a feather legged blue

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Okay, that does it, I can't believe I don't have any of these chicks, myself! I'm setting some this weekend! Anyone else interested in some of these babies? I gathered 21 eggs last night from 27 hens. I should have enough to share. I also have some rich medium brown eggs that I haven't shipped many of. I think I sent some to Maine, but I know Ron and Bama1 didn't get any. I will have to hatch some of those so I can show them what they missed, right SCG?

maybe that's where gizmo came from?

I'll have to see if I can take a video tonight. I thought about taking one last night but BF just got a new Sonos part and there was loud music most of the night. The chicks don't care, and I can sleep through anything when I'm this tired. Maybe tonight will be better for video taking.

 

[bamachicks8]

[COLOR=800000]Okay, that does it, I can't believe I don't have any of these chicks, myself!  I'm setting some this weekend!  Anyone else interested in some of these babies?  I gathered 21 eggs last night from 27 hens.  I should have enough to share.  I also have some rich medium brown eggs that I haven't shipped many of.  I think I sent some to Maine, but I know Ron and Bama1 didn't get any.  I will have to hatch some of those so I can show them what they missed, right SCG?[/COLOR]

I want I want I want make sure you through some bcm egg in there as well

 

[Tomtommom]

Have you shipped chicks before? Maybe you can experiment with that too? *hinthint* I'm only a county or two away from you.

 

[Wisher1000]

Once I hatch them, I don't think I could part with them! Sorry!

 

[kowgurl62]

awww, thanks for telling me about this experiment Wisher.....I'm a great grandmother rofl!!! I wish I could have such good luck with shipped eggs.

 

[Jessshan8]

7 Day Candling
******Please note I am not a professional incubator of eggs and some results could be in error on my part not the shipment of the eggs*******
OK, Wisher Here is the results as they are to date of 16 shipped eggs. To all please know that I have had very little luck in shipped eggs thus far until now! Of the 16 eggs all 16 are/were fertile. 1 egg cracked and leaking from shipment, Check egg for fertility it was fertilized. 2 eggs had scrambled air cells, no development eggs clear. Opened and checked for fertility, both fertile. 1BCM was clear (unsure about air cell egg too dark to tell) opened and it was fertile as well. The other 12 are developing as they should. Very good job thus far WISHER!
In the past my experience with shipped eggs are as follows; I had less than 50% development mostly due to severely scrambled air cells in the mail. Only 70% of the shipped eggs were fertile. Of those that developed I had only approximately 25% hatch rate (mostly due to quitters half way through).
Wisher here are your stats so far:
16 eggs shipped
1 broke in shipping
3 clear at 7 day candling (2 scrambled air cells)
12 developing (Extremely Good)
100% fertility (Amazing)
I need to make a good candler the flashlight just doesn't work that well but here is a pic of the development thus far

 

[ronott1]

7 Day Candling
******Please note I am not a professional incubator of eggs and some results could be in error on my part not the shipment of the eggs*******
OK, Wisher Here is the results as they are to date of 16 shipped eggs. To all please know that I have had very little luck in shipped eggs thus far until now! Of the 16 eggs all 16 are/were fertile. 1 egg cracked and leaking from shipment, Check egg for fertility it was fertilized. 2 eggs had scrambled air cells, no development eggs clear. Opened and checked for fertility, both fertile. 1BCM was clear (unsure about air cell egg too dark to tell) opened and it was fertile as well. The other 12 are developing as they should. Very good job thus far WISHER!
In the past my experience with shipped eggs are as follows; I had less than 50% development mostly due to severely scrambled air cells in the mail. Only 70% of the shipped eggs were fertile. Of those that developed I had only approximately 25% hatch rate (mostly due to quitters half way through).
Wisher here are your stats so far:
16 eggs shipped
1 broke in shipping
3 clear at 7 day candling (2 scrambled air cells)
12 developing (Extremely Good)
100% fertility (Amazing)
I need to make a good candler the flashlight just doesn't work that well but here is a pic of the development thus far

Great news!

 

[Tomtommom]

It was worth a shot

I don't want to wait til next year to have some of your chickies, but I will have to. We ran out of tax refund about $500 ago

I want to build a nice brooder next year to go into my shed, rather than well... cardboard and ducttape.

 

[Wisher1000]

Tom - I have been meaning to show you this since you made the statement that you could work wonders with duct tape....

This is my little silver campine that the others picked on mercilously. They had picked a raw place on the back of her head so I made her a duct tape helment. It worked perfectly! It stuck to the feathers and not the wound, she couldn't scratch it off, though she tried a few times, and the others totally ignored it. It came off by itself after a week or so and the place on her head was healed.

Duct Tape Rules!