The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

[misbhaven]

I use something real similar same size pkg from farm and fleet made by merricks

 

[LindaB220]

Calf Mana is a reasonably priced way to get supplements and animal protein(whey powder) to them.

There is another couple of techniques you can use with the eggs in the incubator now. Cooling and misting. both help with the development of the chicks. Upside down at day 19 is almost always a development problem. Both misting and cooling help with development as does the turning.

An easy way to combine both misting and cooling is to pop the top off of the incubator before doing chicken chores. Mist the eggs with fresh cleat water. Go do the chores and when done, come back and put the top back on the incubator(make sure it is turned back on). Cooling them for up to tow hours a day from day 8 to lockdown really helps with chick development. The little guys will hatch better and be much more vigorous.


Chicken vitamins should work for adult duck breeders. Order online or get them from a feed store. Nutri drench and rooster booster products are commonly sold everywhere(Maybe not Alsaka?)

I have azomite pinned to order some. It would be good but does not have Vitamin A or B vitamins.

I needed this hint a few days ago. Missed it. I've been hatch sitting all day. So far, 10 out of 18. Usually 1 or 2 an hour. I have 14 White Plymouth Rocks in there also that I'm hand turning. After these are through I'll start the misting. I hear another loud chirp so maybe that's 11.

Yes it is. ha

 

[LindaB220]

http://www.jefferspet.com/vitamins-electrolytes-plus/camid/LIV/cp/A2-V5/

Link to vitamins and electrolyte. I also use it in water for newly hatched chicks for the first few days and whenever birds get stressed by coop moves or other things that upset equilibrium

Thanks so much for this site. It's a real winner.

 

[ozexpat]

I buy just about everything I need there for chickens and swine inlcluding vaccines

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Congrats on your hatch Linda! Woot Woot!

 

[LindaB220]

Congrats on your hatch Linda! Woot Woot!

Yeah, still sitting at 11 out of 18. I'm leaving the others in the incubator for right now. Very happy.

On another note, I think we'll have to wait until fall on the cuttings. All gone but maybe one plum. Disappointing. So I know the mulberry didn't make it. We'll work at it.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: That's great that you are getting such a great hatch!

I'm sorry that your cuttings did not make it. I would be happy to send you some more this fall.

Arielle sent me 4 Sweet Grass turkey eggs and my hen hatched all 4 in 20 days! Turkey eggs take 28 days. I don't know how that worked, I can't figure it out. lol But I am very excited that my hen got a 100% hatch rate on the shipped eggs!

 

[LindaB220]

That's great that you are getting such a great hatch!

I'm sorry that your cuttings did not make it. I would be happy to send you some more this fall.

Arielle sent me 4 Sweet Grass turkey eggs and my hen hatched all 4 in 20 days! Turkey eggs take 28 days. I don't know how that worked, I can't figure it out. lol But I am very excited that my hen got a 100% hatch rate on the shipped eggs!

My incubator was full and a lady on CL was giving 11 Ancona duck eggs 11 days going away because she needed room in her incubator. I thought my handyman who has a big incubator might want them but he has mallards and didn't want to mix. Broke my heart because she dumped them. Pictures of the black and white ducks are stunning.

 

[ronott1]

Yeah, still sitting at 11 out of 18. I'm leaving the others in the incubator for right now. Very happy.

On another note, I think we'll have to wait until fall on the cuttings. All gone but maybe one plum. Disappointing. So I know the mulberry didn't make it. We'll work at it.

Congrats on the hatch!

 

[ladycat]

Well, this thread is dead, is it because nobody is shipping eggs in the summer?

I'm in the US and I got an inquiry from someone in Canada who wants hatching eggs. Does anyone know how that works? Do you need special certificates or something to ship hatching eggs to Canada?