RE: whats the best peat to use

["Morris, George" <gmorris at kester_com>]

On the subject of peat, I'd like to relate my recent (first) experience
recieving annual eggs in the mail.  I received them in a bag with no air
space inside and being concerned with the air needs of the eggs, I
transferred them to an opaque plastic jar.  A couple of days later I
couldn't help looking inside ( for no particular reason) and the peat was
snow white!  It scared the devil out of me.  I took a spatula and carefuly
scraped the surface and found the mold layer to be very thin so I scraped it
off and put the eggs and peat back in their bag.  Everything seems to be OK
now several weeks later and I will be wetting the eggs in about 10 days.  I
don't know what to think about this.

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Karpa-Wilson [mailto:dkarpawi at indiana_edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 11:33 AM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: whats the best peat to use


 Storage of eggs in peat
>generally is done in plastic bags and the initial compressed ball is opened
>up and partially dried (NOT TOO MUCH) before storage.
>
>Lee Harper

Is there any concern with oxygen exchange (i.e. do you need breatheable
bags) or will any baggie do?

Doug

Doug Karpa Wilson

Department of Biology
Jordan Hall
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405


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