Moving with eggs

Would love to hear people's experiences with moving and moving their clutches of eggs to their new residence. I was just talking with a friend and he said that he killed several clutches of eggs when he moved because of the bouncing while driving in the car. Has anybody moved their eggs successfully? Do you have any suggestions for moving them without hurting them?

Well I know many personal studies have shown us that eggs can handle a drop in temp fairly well. So depending on how far you have to go and the weather where you are leaving from and heading to, I would probably make sure the eggs were in some sort of medium and taken out of the incubator.

I looked at weather for your location and it is much cooler than much of the country has been. IMO, it would all depend on how long the trip was. If your talking an hour or two, I would just keep them in the car/cab with someone holding them if possible to minimize egg moving. Another thing is how many clutches are you talking? If you have many clutches, I would still try to get them in the actual car/cab rather than in the trunk or on a trailer.

So temps, length of trip, how many eggs all will play a factor in the ultimate decision to keep them safe.

Yeh, temps Im not worried about. Its only about 14 miles or so and theres always a car heat. Just wasnt sure if the actual process of moving them would affect them as my friend I guess lost several clutches from driving with his in the car. It was a much great distance for him though.

Yes, you can imagine how much worse it would be the further you had to go. So 14 miles I wouldn't worry about. I think the biggest thing I would do is bury them like half way at least in a medium to keep them reasonably secure. Hold any that you can to help reduce movement even more and drive easy

We just had to do this and the eggs have since hatched.

Good luck.

I take my eggs to a friends house...about a 30 minute drive...I have had 1 entire clutch die and Im not sure i would say it was the move....i think it was the weather at the time...we are talking about 20 clutchs over the last 2 years for me

I moved this year during breeding season. 3 clutches, over an hour drive in a Florida summer (never loved my AC more). I lost one egg out of 21.

Okay, good to know. Thankyou!