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Poll Results: Would you participate in the January Egg Swap if the hatch is Feb 14

 
  • 70% (35)
    Yes, I love this idea.
  • 12% (6)
    It doesn't matter to me.
  • 6% (3)
    No, this would not work for me.
  • 0% (0)
    It doesn't matter to me.
  • 12% (6)
    I don't normally participate anyways.
50 Total Votes  
post #21 of 392
12/24/11 at 4:51pm
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Originally Posted by TinyBirds 
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Originally Posted by bantiehen 

good grief lol sorry guys can't this time sad  I wanted to but I better not got enough eggs as it is lol coming.. sigh don't everyone have too much fun wink

Think I'm gonna leave BYC for awhile, nothing you guys have done. Shelly I'll check after Christmas to get that delivery confirmation number from ya. Just kinda bummed on how some people are thinking about my Ameraucana chicken. yeah I asked for their opinions and what not but still though some can be pretty harsh and its like this is depressing sad  I know a lot had good intentions and I'm glad that they did. Anyway Ill still keep in touch everyone. Thanks for being kind to me and being my friends. Have a good January swap smilesmile  love ya guys..


I'm sorry that happened to you.  I felt that way a couple times myself.  Once I posted photos of some birds and I felt people were saying they weren't good enough so I gave them away, but now I've found out I should've kept them!!!  They were gorgeous!  I just don't post photos for people's opinions any more.  Also I just don't really follow the threads that have people like that on them.  I think it's worse with Ameraucana breeders especially.  Some can sound very harsh.  hugs


thanks everyone hugs
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Hey I just might have to join I've got eggs and they have no where to go lol. My incubators are full at the moment smile tell my one chicks are big enough to leave the other incubator and go into the brooder lol. I'll have a empty incubator lol.. Right made up my other mind I'm joining. Thanks everyone for the kind words means a lot to me smilesmile


Edited by bantiehen - 12/24/11 at 7:42pm
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post #22 of 392
12/27/11 at 2:21pm
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Originally Posted by bantiehen 

good grief lol sorry guys can't this time sad  I wanted to but I better not got enough eggs as it is lol coming.. sigh don't everyone have too much fun wink

Think I'm gonna leave BYC for awhile, nothing you guys have done. Shelly I'll check after Christmas to get that delivery confirmation number from ya. Just kinda bummed on how some people are thinking about my Ameraucana chicken. yeah I asked for their opinions and what not but still though some can be pretty harsh and its like this is depressing sad  I know a lot had good intentions and I'm glad that they did. Anyway Ill still keep in touch everyone. Thanks for being kind to me and being my friends. Have a good January swap smilesmile  love ya guys..


For the most part everyone on here is great but I agree the Ameraucana people can be harsh...I have some myself that I know are pure but wont post because of that...even had a BYCer at the asale I was at to get them tell me they were EEs and a waste of time but guess who I out bid! LOL...glad you stayed!!

Currently raising D'uccles, Cochin's, OEGB's, Ameraucanas, BLRWs, and B/B Orpingtons, with an assorted LF layer flock plus the horse, goats, rabbits, dogs, cats, pigeons, peafowl and pigs all on my tiny farmstead in the backwoods!!

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post #23 of 392
12/28/11 at 8:09am

Hi.  I have never joined into this swap...but have been watching for the past 2 months.  Just had a bad experience with purchased hatching eggs.  Not breeders fault.  The eggs got stuck one extra day in the mail due to bad road conditions.  Evidently they started to develop on the 5 day trip and that's as far as they made it.  Just worried about cold and road conditions this time of year.  Would like to join the March swap group.  My Birthday is March 16 !  big_smile

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"I know its OK to talk to my chicks, but lately they've been answering back!"
One GREAT Husband, 4 Wonderful children all grown and missed very much, 2 Grand Kids, 2 Fabulous Dogs, 2 Silly Cats, 2 milk cows, Honey Bees (mean ones), and 56 Comical Chickens!
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post #24 of 392
12/28/11 at 8:20am
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Originally Posted by PeeperKeeper 

Hi.  I have never joined into this swap...but have been watching for the past 2 months.  Just had a bad experience with purchased hatching eggs.  Not breeders fault.  The eggs got stuck one extra day in the mail due to bad road conditions.  Evidently they started to develop on the 5 day trip and that's as far as they made it.  Just worried about cold and road conditions this time of year.  Would like to join the March swap group.  My Birthday is March 16 !  big_smile


These swaps are alot of fun and sometimes I have a great hatch..other times not so great.. I figure if you can hatch out refrigerated eggs.. shipping in colder weather can't be much worse.. The friendships I have made on here warm the heart..

Shelly

Loving the Southern climate with my Misc. chickens 2 Rotties, 1 rescued mutt, 8 Netherland/Mini Lop rabbits, 3 grown children, two grandsons, and a DH that loves animals as much as I do. I have BCM, RIR, Coronation sussex, BLRW, SLW, Buff, Blue, Black Splash Opringtons, and a huge mixed flock that resembles the U.N. swap page: http://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=70350-swap-page

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Loving the Southern climate with my Misc. chickens 2 Rotties, 1 rescued mutt, 8 Netherland/Mini Lop rabbits, 3 grown children, two grandsons, and a DH that loves animals as much as I do. I have BCM, RIR, Coronation sussex, BLRW, SLW, Buff, Blue, Black Splash Opringtons, and a huge mixed flock that resembles the U.N. swap page: http://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=70350-swap-page

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post #25 of 392
12/28/11 at 8:21am
Thread Starter 

I could try to set you up with somebody close to you. We've all had the experience of eggs not doing well when shipped. Other times we have great hatches. A lot depends on the freshness of eggs and how well they were packed. Wouldn't it be fun to try just 1 swap?  Postage isn't bad for 6-8 eggs. Just call me the enabler. gig

The next few months I am thinking will be:
Feb- Normal swap
March- set for Easter hatch (chickens set March 17)
April- Mother's Day Hatch
After that normal swaps.

Are there any objections?

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post #26 of 392
12/28/11 at 8:24am
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Originally Posted by mrheinz77 

I could try to set you up with somebody close to you. We've all had the experience of eggs not doing well when shipped. Other times we have great hatches. A lot depends on the freshness of eggs and how well they were packed. Wouldn't it be fun to try just 1 swap?  Postage isn't bad for 6-8 eggs. Just call me the enabler. gig

The next few months I am thinking will be:
Feb- Normal swap
March- set for Easter hatch (chickens set March 17)
April- Mother's Day Hatch
After that normal swaps.

Are there any objections?


No objections at all..
June - Welcome summer hatch OR yippee I am out of school for the summer hatch
July 4th hatch
August - darn I have to go back to work hatch
Sept - Sept 11th Memorial Hatch

sHELLY

Loving the Southern climate with my Misc. chickens 2 Rotties, 1 rescued mutt, 8 Netherland/Mini Lop rabbits, 3 grown children, two grandsons, and a DH that loves animals as much as I do. I have BCM, RIR, Coronation sussex, BLRW, SLW, Buff, Blue, Black Splash Opringtons, and a huge mixed flock that resembles the U.N. swap page: http://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=70350-swap-page

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Loving the Southern climate with my Misc. chickens 2 Rotties, 1 rescued mutt, 8 Netherland/Mini Lop rabbits, 3 grown children, two grandsons, and a DH that loves animals as much as I do. I have BCM, RIR, Coronation sussex, BLRW, SLW, Buff, Blue, Black Splash Opringtons, and a huge mixed flock that resembles the U.N. swap page: http://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=70350-swap-page

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post #27 of 392
12/28/11 at 8:28am

I would love to join in this month. But it just snowed and got real cold here. I am afraid that someone that got my eggs would have trouble because of the cold.  I don't want noone getting frozen eggs so I am sitting this one out.  hmm

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Growing Out: SFH, Cochin, Hedemora, Fluffies, Silky Calls, Wyandottes, Dwarfs, Leghorns & Orps
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post #28 of 392
12/28/11 at 9:41am

I'm an enabler too, mrheinz77.

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Originally Posted by peeperkeeper 

Just worried about cold and road conditions this time of year.


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Originally Posted by shellyga 

I figure if you can hatch out refrigerated eggs.. shipping in colder weather can't be much worse.


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Originally Posted by reesepoultry 

I would love to join in this month. But it just snowed and got real cold here. I am afraid that someone that got my eggs would have trouble because of the cold.  I don't want noone getting frozen eggs so I am sitting this one out.


I wouldn't worry about the cold at all.  Eggs apparently are very, very hardy at least when it comes to cold.  I had a hen make a nest outside the fence.  She laid 3 eggs in it before I found where she was getting out and plugged the hole.  A few days later I found her nest and took the eggs.  So at least one of the eggs was out there a full 5 days, another for 4 days and the last one for 3 days and at night temps were in the low 20s, during the day 35-40 and one of those nights it sleeted all night.  Had I not read the threads about people hatching Trader Joe's refrigerated eggs from the grocery store I would have just pitched them, but I wanted to see it for myself so I popped my 'refrigerated' eggs into the incubator with a lot of other eggs.  All 3 hatched on 12/23!


Edited by 9Catsz - 12/28/11 at 9:44am

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post #29 of 392
12/28/11 at 9:50am

Enablers say it isn't so epyuckyuck
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I don't believe it for one second lol just kidding wink Being an Enabler is totally fun smilesmile
The other day I dropped some eggs off to the post office. My post master told me isn't it too cold to send the eggs. Don't you know how cold it gets in those planes. I shrugged it off and said yep that's the chance that we chicken people take smile ( mentioned it before) smilesmile

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post #30 of 392
12/28/11 at 10:00am
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Originally Posted by bantiehen 

The other day I dropped some eggs off to the post office. My post master told me isn't it too cold to send the eggs. Don't you know how cold it gets in those planes. I shrugged it off and said yep that's the chance that we chicken people take smile ( mentioned it before) smilesmile


I wonder if it gets below 20 degrees?

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