[Old_chapel_apple_juice]

hi guys
im selling hatching duck eggs and i also sell them as eating eggs ( put them in the fridge for 48 hours when i find them)
i was wondering if i was to wait the 7-10 days leaving them at room temp to see if they sold as hatching eggs and then if they didnt sell could i put them in the fridge as eaters or would they already have started the process with blood spots and so on
any help would be great

[HesterF]

They won't start to develop embyros at room temperature. Blood spots are not related to fertility anyway - there is a mark on the yolk you can see on a fertile yolk after a couple of days but it's really not very obvious. I don't ever refrigerate eggs but I do sell all eating eggs within two weeks of being laid. I am, however, swimming in duck eggs at the moment!

[Clansman]

hi guys
im selling hatching duck eggs and i also sell them as eating eggs ( put them in the fridge for 48 hours when i find them)
i was wondering if i was to wait the 7-10 days leaving them at room temp to see if they sold as hatching eggs and then if they didnt sell could i put them in the fridge as eaters or would they already have started the process with blood spots and so on
any help would be great

Are you putting all the eggs in the fridge initially?

it is possibly to get some development if the temperature gets up above the mid 20's but you'd need some serious heating or sunlight to get a room up to that temperature.

Sounds like a plan though if you keep them at room temperature for a week then transfer them to the fridge you should be fine, once you start going over 7 days the fertility starts to drop slowly anyway.