Egg Collecting entails that you have found eggs in your lay boxes and now need to move them to their incubation boxes. While this is pretty self explanatory, there are some things you should keep in mind.

Mark The Eggs

Eggs are deposited in a specific manner and that is how the embryo inside begins to develop. When you find eggs in your egg laying boxes the first thing you should do is take a sharpie and place a small line on the top of the egg. This line will be your identifier for which side is the top. It is crucial that you keep that line facing the top when you move the egg or you could drown the developing embryo inside.


Placing The Eggs

You should already have an incubation tray waiting for the eggs at this point. Transferring them from the egg laying box to the incubation tray is as simple as picking up the egg, keeping the line you placed on it facing upwards, and placing it in the dimple you made in the substrate of the incubation box. Remember, the egg should be in a dimple that hide roughly half the egg. This allows the egg to absorb moisture from the air as well as the substrate and also allows for air flow.

Placing The Eggs - Suspension Incubation

Suspension Incubation is an alternative form of egg incubation and is described here: Suspension Incubation

Transferring the eggs simply requires that you carefully place them between the rails with the line facing upwards. Since there is no substrate, there are no additional steps.