shipped eggs

Um its been awhile since I've been on. But I bought my first batch of (pretty expensive!) shipped eggs. Waited several months for these. I followed all of the recommended steps, let them rest 24hrs before placing in the incubator, waited a few days before switching the turner on. On day 6 I...

Hello folks!! :) I raised chickens and (LOTS of) ducks growing up, and totally fell in love with keeping ducks. I had my own mini flock of khaki campbells about 10 years ago, but have had to step away from it since. I finally live somewhere where I can have backyard poultry again, and I'm SO...

Hello, I've been incubating some shipped eggs that I set on 3/7. Out of 24 eggs 15 made it to lock down, 5 hatched on the night of 3/28 within a few hours of each other, 2 more hatched later that same night. I assisted one more 3/29 that was stuck and came out with sprawled legs and labored open...

Well I'm ~5-6 days away from welcoming new chicks to the world for the first time. I've always wanted to hatch eggs and finally after slowly getting the family warmed up to the idea of keeping chicken for two years it's happening! I think the main trigger was when some trashy person dumped a...

Hi there! I ordered some Barred Rock hatching eggs from Meyer Hatchery last week, and they are supposed to come sometime next week around Tuesday or Wednesday. This will be my first time hatching eggs in an incubator. I have a Kebonnix 12 egg incubator set up at home. Do y'all have any tips for...

I have an incubator I bought off of eBay which is pretty neat for how much it costs. It heats up, turns automatically, and has a candler light. Even has a water mister bottle, and a way to humidify the incubator. Picture of incubator is below. It has an external water control bottle. I don't...

Hello there all! This is a placeholder for when I'll (hopefully) get my eggs! Their expected delivery is anywhere from the 18th to the 21st! I've asked the seller for more blue eggs overall, and they were able to fulfill my request from my knowledge! I have the chance of hatching Ayam Cemani...

Just had to come share that my husband bought me 6 ayam cemani eggs from ebay and I stuck them under my frizzle hen. A day or so later my daughter(10) snuck a 7th egg under her. We expected hatch day to be on April fools day but they started hatching on the 2nd and all 7 eggs hatched!! There is...

New to incubating bird eggs and could not tell much from candling my shipped chicken eggs on day 1. How many days in the incubator before they make it known that they are definitely bad? I'm on day 3 and worried because none of them smell yet, but they can't all have made it ok. Thanks in advance.

I’ve actually counted 11 (of 26! 84% of the eggs incubated were still ticking along at the start of lockdown! 🙌🏻) hairline cracks… of COURSE the first obvious pip is at the wrong end though 🙄 Quail chicks: always working hard to die under even the most ideal circumstances! 😅 I’ll keep y’all...

Have you bought eggs from Ebay? If so, how was your hatch? Do you recommend any particular seller? Do you Not recommend any particular seller? Have you ever sold eggs on Ebay? If you bought eggs from Ebay, did you worry about bringing disease into your flock via hatched chicks? Has this...

So to start off this was my first time incubating eggs, I’ve had broodys this year and normally I let them hatch. But I wanted chicks that were more unique breeds you don’t find at the feed store and my last set of shipped eggs (Red blue laced wyandottes) I had under my broody, she abandoned...

Hi All! Been several years since I posted (when I first got chicks) but I figured I’d add catalog my experience of trying to hatch incubator eggs. I have a roo, so I let my Cochin sit on a clutch of 12 in spring of 2020. We ended up with 6 chicks! I didn’t separate “mama” so I think most of...

Hi everyone! I'm looking for advice, mostly to calm my nerves, lol! I'm getting ready to have Silkie eggs shipped to me for hatching. They were laid in CA and are being shipped to Southwest CO, our elevation is approx 6,600 ft. We will be using 2 Incuview with Humidistat incubators. The...

Looking for advice on what to do. Today I got my shipped hatching eggs after 7 days of transit. Some arrived smashed and the box smelled really bad of course. I cleaned up the ones that weren’t cracked but I’m worried the eggs that survived the trip could have been contaminated by bacteria of...

In a couple months I'm gonna hatch some d'uccles. I'm looking for anyone who sells (and ships/delivers) d'uccle hatching eggs in England. I checked ebay but they only sell in groups of 6, I can only hatch 4 eggs. Probably not gonna get any replies. Thanks

hey everyone! i bought my first ever shipped eggs last week and i picked them up today!! i plan on putting them under my broody tomorrow!!! ive done a hatch a long a few times and they are always so much fun!! so fill free to share what your hatching!! never too late to join!! :love ive always...

Just set my dozen eggs from the Chicken Poop Bingo and figured some of y'all might want to follow along. This is my first time hatching shipped eggs, so I'm really nervous about them. All 5 that I could clearly see into had detached air cells, so I'm hoping they'll be alright. I'm trying to...

A Faverolle breeder is shipping me a dozen eggs tomorrow. They should arrive in a couple days. Looking for advice! I have only one incubator (circulated air Hovabator 1588), and an automatic turner that takes up all the bottom space (of course, I take it out for lockdown). If absolutely...

I have shipped eggs that externally pipped this AM. I just checked again and noticed one of the chicks now appears to have its leg/foot over its beak. The hole is bigger, but it’s beak is now partially obscured when it wasn’t before. The egg is still rocking back and forth quite vigorously but...