Like hatch them upright? I have some "egg bras" that I cut out of a brown egg carton that I use to set them upright in the incubator for the first week.
I had a shipment of Welsummers eggs, a majority of the air cells were detached so they were upright the first week of incubation. We are about to go into lockdown and I can see movement in all of the eggs but half of them seem to have a wiggly air cell still like you can see it giggle some. It...
I will say that I had a few eggs once that I didn't think were developing on Day 5 or 6 and decided to crack them to see if the yoke was scrambled during shipping. All of them were as I expected except for one and there was a tiny chick in there that was developing just like it was supposed to...
I feel your frustration!! Im in the exact same boat as you unfortunately. I ordered some expensive eggs from someone that had a very large following on social media. She was very nice when I placed the order and paid. All communication after that has been subpar to say the least. Eggs took over...
In the past month I have received/still waiting on 3 orders of hatching eggs. One took over a week to arrive (USPS) with broken eggs upon arrival, the other took 5 days and I paid 2nd Day Air through UPS, and the last one was supposed to arrive on 4/7 and hoping it gets here by 4/11 (USPS)...
I have never had a shrink wrapped chick until this hatch, and there was no denying that this chick was shrink wrapped. I helped but tried not to overdo it. It was set up like concrete inside the egg. I felt like I got most the hard sticky membrane off of it last night but left him still half way...
You may have already found some by know but I just ordered Lavender Maran hatching eggs from Seeking Eden Permaculture. You can find her on FB. They shipped fast and she did an excellent job packaging them.
Thank you, I am going to check the air cells this evening. This batch of eggs are dark and so it makes it harder to see inside. I appreciate your reply.
Thank you for the reply! You make a lot of valid points, and I didn't realize that . I think I will candle and see what the air cell looks like and go from there. The ones I have currently are dark and make it a little more challenging, but I'll definitely give it my best shot. 😉
The first time I hatched shipped eggs I had 100% hatch rate on 18 eggs. I truly believe it was beginners luck because I did NOTHING right. I didn't allow them to sit 24 hrs, my humidity was high, and I messed with them way too much (candling almost everyday ha ha). Obviously the next batch I...
I bought her as a chick last spring from a friend. She may be a barnyard mix but I’m not entirely sure. She lays large tan eggs, I’ll attach a pic. She is the sweetest. We call her Delphina 😉