floating eggs

how long can you keep eggs if pairs you want to put them under have not laid at same time                                  thanks in advance

hi stuart, are you paired up...?

you don't need advise off me I`m sure......but I reckon a week maybe, if they are turned every day...?

Leave them under the parents until other pair has laid. Just guessing here but assume week should be OK. The foster parents should know when the eggs will hatch due to the movement in the shell. Should have milk ready. Never tried it myself though.

not yet just asking in advance wife wont give me any money to buy any decent corn only barley

stu H wrote:

not yet just asking in advance wife wont give me any money to buy any decent corn only barley

somehow I don't believe you stuart........have you ordered your rings yet, they are issued 1st December now arnt they.

too early for me, I`m planning around 2nd / 3rd week in jan

Iv never tried longer than 4 days so not sure

I don't like floating eggs, did it once and ybs were weedy and not good...might have just been a one off, but I wont be doing it again.

fieldwalker wrote:

Iv never tried longer than 4 days so not sure

Same, same the odd pair may sit longer etc but the odds are you just may finish up with nothing in the end.

maximum I have tried is 5 days which turned out ok but they were floated under a really good pair of feeders no more than 3 days is desirable crop milk is fed for 7 days ...so best float eggs under new parents asap as hal says they will adjust to movement in the egg and then start to produce crop milk at the correct time

I thought by floating eggs that werent laid the same dates, how long before there addled...useless,
left un incubated.
if you meant eggs that have been incubated i wouldnt fancy more than 3 days shorter and moved a week before due.
over sitting a few days is easier.

thats what i meant david answered by saying a week if you kept turning them                                                             other advice as been helpful anymore would be appreciated