The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

[ronott1]

Quote: I am fairly sure mine will come that way. Dick is very nice but his packing skills need some work. If mine come smashed, I may offer to send him packing materials and a pre paid box LOL. Maybe we can help him learn about shipping. Last year he did not use the online shipping and the box was very expensive for him to ship.

 

[ozexpat]

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Oh nooooo!

I will pick them up tomorrow

 

[Bama1]

Waiting on more pics.

 

[bamachicks8]

Dh's boss gave me maran eggs to put in also

 

[Toast n Jelly]

Dh's boss gave me maran eggs to put in also

There's a purple egg in there!

I love it!

 

[Bama1]

Dh's boss gave me maran eggs to put in also

So neat!

 

[tommysgirl]

Hi everyone! I feel like I know you all since I have been reading this thread now for three days. I am setting eggs on 4/5 for the first time ever. I am putting a dozen of mine and my uncle's in and have ordered 6+ hens choice from ChooksChicks and also from Bethbug. I have a Little Giant incubator on loan from a friend used to use with great success hatching eggs for her kindergarten class.

Because of this thread I have:

set up a laboratory in our powder room to determine if it is indeed the optimal place to store my eggs prior to the shipped ones arriving

learned that my sweet sweet Delaware who lays eggs with calcium deposites can still have her eggs stuck in the bator

learned as much as I ever think I can about air cells....which is big considering I didn't even know what one was before the hatching 101

gone through the excitement of seeing wishers eggs hatch on two coasts

learned the "Sooner Boomer" song

and all about Philippine beasts of burden

Seen a deep purple egg! WOW!

But most importantly I have learned how to potentially maximize my hatch rate because I have some totally cool embryos coming my way in those shipped eggs and I want to give those babies the best chance at making it from egg to coop!


THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to Wisher who started it all, to Ron and SCG who shared their processes with us and to the rest of you who posted questions comments and observations. I am mildly less anxious about this than I was before.

 

[Bama1]

Hi everyone! I feel like I know you all since I have been reading this thread now for three days. I am setting eggs on 4/5 for the first time ever. I am putting a dozen of mine and my uncle's in and have ordered 6+ hens choice from ChooksChicks and also from Bethbug. I have a Little Giant incubator on loan from a friend used to use with great success hatching eggs for her kindergarten class.

Because of this thread I have:

set up a laboratory in our powder room to determine if it is indeed the optimal place to store my eggs prior to the shipped ones arriving

learned that my sweet sweet Delaware who lays eggs with calcium deposites can still have her eggs stuck in the bator

learned as much as I ever think I can about air cells....which is big considering I didn't even know what one was before the hatching 101

gone through the excitement of seeing wishers eggs hatch on two coasts

learned the "Sooner Boomer" song

and all about Philippine beasts of burden

Seen a deep purple egg! WOW!

But most importantly I have learned how to potentially maximize my hatch rate because I have some totally cool embryos coming my way in those shipped eggs and I want to give those babies the best chance at making it from egg to coop!


THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to Wisher who started it all, to Ron and SCG who shared their processes with us and to the rest of you who posted questions comments and observations. I am mildly less anxious about this than I was before.

Get that LG going ASAP, wayyyyy before you get the eggs, like today. Lots of thermometers also. I calibrated mine using ice water. Checked humidity on hydrometer using ziplock baggie salt and drop of water. I couldnt have done it without all the help from everyone on this thread. I enjoyed reading the Cliff Notes on our thread here! I will be candling my calcium deposit egg this weekend! Look forward to getting to read about your adventure in hatching now.

 

[Bama1]

and for your viewing pleasure...... Silkies are hatching today. My daughter will be so egg-cited when she gets home from school !

 

[tommysgirl]

Get that LG going ASAP, wayyyyy before you get the eggs, like today. Lots of thermometers also. I calibrated mine using ice water. Checked humidity on hydrometer using ziplock baggie salt and drop of water. I couldnt have done it without all the help from everyone on this thread. I enjoyed reading the Cliff Notes on our thread here! I will be candling my calcium deposit egg this weekend! Look forward to getting to read about your adventure in hatching now.

Will do. Thanks! I appreciate the advice about calibration. I read somewhere to calibrate digital hygrometers by sealing them in a plastic bag immersed in a second plastic bag full of ice water and then looking for a reading of 75%. Is that what your experience says I should do? I have the digital hygrometer thermometer that Ron recommended and two small incubation ones and I am going to do the water snake with the probe therm but haven't got that one yet.

Your silkie chick is so...well, silkieish Cute!