How long are fertile eggs viable after being laid? I thought they would have to be incubated straight from being laid. On the subject of unusual things in the post. I had a ferret through the post, well it was delivered to the local train station in a little wooden crate.😄 it was from Abbott brothers livestock in Norfolk. They came in three sizes small medium or large. I got a large, jeez it was like an otter. No good for work but it was a lovely placid thing.....................Aye happy days 😉
Hi, If they are correctly stored they are certainly good for ten days, after that the viability does decrease. I have hatched eggs which have been twice that age.. I have also known hens and guinea fowl secretly sit on huge clutches of eggs and arrive in the farmyard with astonishing numbers of chicks, so if a hen is laying one per day the oldest egg will be at least as old in days as the number of chicks; but they are the experts. Never heard of ferrets by rail before, how long ago was that? When I was a child my grandfather used to have day old chicks sent from Norfolk to Yorkshire. On their journey by rail they would be in the charge of the guard on the train. The boxes had lids with adjustable vents which were set according to the weather and we got a phone call when they arrived. First thing he used to do was give each one a fragment of an asprin tablet 'to calm them down'.
@@wotjonsez2560 I'm going to say late 70s or early 80s for that ferret. I remember i collected it on my pushbike. Abbott brothers used to advertise in th Exchange and Mart they sold all kinds including poultry and flemish giant rabbits all sent out by rail to all points of the compass. Alas no longer in the go. It funny how things jog your memory. When i was a trainee keeper we would catch pheasants up and pen them and collect their eggs daily. Thinking back we must of had to wait until there was sufficient to fill the huge incubator that was used. So ther must of been a delay when doing that. I can remember candling eggs with a torch with a rubber cup on the end. Would that havebeen prior to putting them in the incubator.? Aye this is a trip down memory lane.
I used to enjoy the Exchange and Mart, as youngsters we called it the Sexchange and Fart! I once bought some incubator plans for 50p (when I earned £17 per week) and got a picture of a huricane lamp in a tea chest so I designed my own incubator and put the plans for sale in the E&M for £2 each, one week I sold eighty poundsworth, good money in those days. How's the boy getting on with his coricle? Regards, Jon@@thornwarbler
@@wotjonsez2560 Aye some of those plans leave abit to be desired. I remember my dad telling me of some booklet he sent fir in the forties. He was going to make his fortune as a mushroom farmer. When the book arrived on the first page the instruction was take 3 tons of straw and cut it into half inch lengths. A bit of a tall order for a teenager living in a council house in a Northumberland pit village. The coracle is laid up at present. There'll be a new one in the slips this year and we have plans to drift down our local river 5 miles or so to the sea.
How long are fertile eggs viable after being laid? I thought they would have to be incubated straight from being laid.
On the subject of unusual things in the post. I had a ferret through the post, well it was delivered to the local train station in a little wooden crate.😄 it was from Abbott brothers livestock in Norfolk.
They came in three sizes small medium or large. I got a large, jeez it was like an otter.
No good for work but it was a lovely placid thing.....................Aye happy days 😉
Hi, If they are correctly stored they are certainly good for ten days, after that the viability does decrease. I have hatched eggs which have been twice that age.. I have also known hens and guinea fowl secretly sit on huge clutches of eggs and arrive in the farmyard with astonishing numbers of chicks, so if a hen is laying one per day the oldest egg will be at least as old in days as the number of chicks; but they are the experts.
Never heard of ferrets by rail before, how long ago was that? When I was a child my grandfather used to have day old chicks sent from Norfolk to Yorkshire. On their journey by rail they would be in the charge of the guard on the train. The boxes had lids with adjustable vents which were set according to the weather and we got a phone call when they arrived. First thing he used to do was give each one a fragment of an asprin tablet 'to calm them down'.
@@wotjonsez2560 I'm going to say late 70s or early 80s for that ferret. I remember i collected it on my pushbike.
Abbott brothers used to advertise in th Exchange and Mart they sold all kinds including poultry and flemish giant rabbits all sent out by rail to all points of the compass. Alas no longer in the go.
It funny how things jog your memory. When i was a trainee keeper we would catch pheasants up and pen them and collect their eggs daily. Thinking back we must of had to wait until there was sufficient to fill the huge incubator that was used. So ther must of been a delay when doing that.
I can remember candling eggs with a torch with a rubber cup on the end. Would that havebeen prior to putting them in the incubator.?
Aye this is a trip down memory lane.
I used to enjoy the Exchange and Mart, as youngsters we called it the Sexchange and Fart! I once bought some incubator plans for 50p (when I earned £17 per week) and got a picture of a huricane lamp in a tea chest so I designed my own incubator and put the plans for sale in the E&M for £2 each, one week I sold eighty poundsworth, good money in those days. How's the boy getting on with his coricle? Regards, Jon@@thornwarbler
@@wotjonsez2560 Aye some of those plans leave abit to be desired. I remember my dad telling me of some booklet he sent fir in the forties. He was going to make his fortune as a mushroom farmer.
When the book arrived on the first page the instruction was take 3 tons of straw and cut it into half inch lengths.
A bit of a tall order for a teenager living in a council house in a Northumberland pit village.
The coracle is laid up at present. There'll be a new one in the slips this year and we have plans to drift down our local river 5 miles or so to the sea.