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From: Adrian R. Tappin[SMTP:atappin at ecn.net.au]
Sent: 12 November, 1996 8:00 AM
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
Subject: Shipping Eggs
I have tested a few different methods shipping eggs and believe that what
ever happens to them occurs during transport.
I have tried various methods at home with good success such as damp mops
stored in inflated bags, eggs (with & without packing)in water filled sealed
container, container half-full of water, eggs treated and untreated with
methylene blue and even eggs just placed between damp sheets of absorbent
paper, presoaked in a water & methylene blue solution. Some of the eggs were
held for 14 days and still had some hatch?
All the above methods produced good results, yet when the same procedures
were use in actual shipment the results have been far from successful -
which brings me to the conclusion that it is the result of handling during
shipment that causes the problems. They no doubt get subjected to extremes
of temperature and rough handling.
All we can do is keep shipping as some do hatch and as we all know you only
need a pair to survive. I might be lucky, but I have had two occasions when
I had only two eggs hatch and they turned out to be a pair.
As for Ron's Bowman methods, I have had a few reports that they haven't been
entirely successful at times.
Adrian.
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Adrian R. Tappin
atappin at ecn.net.au
http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
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