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# Collect eggs from your flock

Use **Collect eggs** each time you gather eggs from a hen or flock. Kept eggs build an egg lot, a batch of hatching eggs in Genetics that you can hatch or sell by the pack.

## Before you start

**Collect eggs** appears once you keep egg layers on Creatures, such as a hen or a flock. Look for it at the top of **Today**, in **Genetics** and in the **Egg clutches** section of your **Breeding** dashboard. It is also on a flock's page, a hen's **Breeding** tab and under **Create** (+) on your phone.

New here? Add your birds first. A whole flock can be one [count group](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/track-animals-without-individual-profiles-nbado5/), tracked as a single headcount.

![Genetics page with Collect eggs next to Add material](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/111/161/720/d1d41.png?width=1562)

## Log a collection

1. Select **Collect eggs**. Starting from a flock or hen fills it in for you.
2. If you collect for an organization you manage, pick it in **Keep these eggs for**.
3. In **Whose eggs?**, choose your flock, a hen, or **Unknown source**.
4. Check **Species**. It fills in from a flock or hen, so you only pick it for an unknown source.
5. **Collected on** starts at today. It is the day you gathered the eggs, not the day they were laid.
6. Enter **Eggs kept**: the eggs you plan to set or sell.

![Collect eggs form for Glen Lyon Silkie flock with 6 eggs kept](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/907/4a6/3c8/d48f2.png?width=780)

## Add rejected eggs and dates (optional)

Open **Quality, rejected eggs and dates** for more detail:

- **Keeper quality** (**Suitable for setting**, **Uncertain** or **Not held**) is your own judgment, not a grade. Use **Not held** only with 0 in **Eggs kept**, counting those eggs as **Rejected eggs**.
- **Rejected eggs** counts the ones you threw out. Tick any **Observed defects**, such as **Dirty**.
- If one entry covers several days, fill in **Collection range ends**. Add lay dates only if you know them.

![Keeper quality set to Suitable for setting, 1 rejected egg marked Dirty](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/8fa/57b/740/1e50e.png?width=780)

## Check where the eggs go, then save

**Where these eggs go** shows which egg lot gets your kept eggs. Eggs from the same flock or hen join the same open lot, so a week of collecting stays together. A different **Keeper quality** starts its own lot.

- **Start a new lot** appears when an open lot already exists for that source. Turn it on to begin a fresh batch. The old lot takes no more eggs but keeps its eggs and any listing.
- If the lot is listed for sale, new eggs do not change how many it offers. To sell them too, choose **Add eggs to this offer** on the egg lot.

Select **Save collection** once the preview shows.

![Where these eggs go: 6 kept eggs into the Silkie flock lot, with Start a new lot and Save collection](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/108/2aa/8cb/79ceb.png?width=780)

## What happens next

**Collection saved** shows how many eggs went into the lot and how many are ready to set or sell. Choose **Open egg lot** to see its history. If you kept eggs, you can also choose:

- **Set eggs** to [start a clutch](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/set-a-clutch-of-eggs-and-follow-incubation-13xozef/), a group of eggs you incubate together.
- **Create egg offer** to [sell them by the pack](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/sell-hatching-eggs-by-the-pack-mfya66/).

Genetics also shows **Your collections this week**, a seven-day total of eggs kept and rejected.

## If something looks wrong

- **Wrong count or date?** Open the egg lot in **Genetics** and choose **Correct collection** for that day. Give a reason. Eggs already set or listed for sale cannot be removed this way.
- **Eggs broke or got used later?** Choose **Record loss or use** on the egg lot. The original collection record stays.
- **Save not confirmed?** Choose **Retry saved collection**. It never adds the eggs twice.

### Related information

- [Set a clutch of eggs and follow incubation](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/set-a-clutch-of-eggs-and-follow-incubation-13xozef/)
- [Sell hatching eggs by the pack](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/sell-hatching-eggs-by-the-pack-mfya66/)
- [Managing your Genetic Inventory](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/managing-your-genetic-inventory-1d7rs30/)
- [Your Today page: what's due and how to check it off](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/your-today-page-whats-due-and-how-to-check-it-off-cff1ap/)