April Online Egg Swap Closed Double check your entries

May swap now open.

Ok Wolfie.... Got the eggs...intact.


Now I need help decoding.
Lav Am...got that one.
Lav. egg project....got that one too.
SPPR ??
Big Bird ???

SPPR = Silver Penciled Plymouth Rock

MrsMoonCat said:

My last box went out today to Shellyga - so glad you're feeling better now Shelly!
The one for Scaredofshadows went out last week. So my two are done.

Hope everyone gets their eggs

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Got mine in Monday thank you again hun!

mrheinz77 said:

May swap now open.

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can you send the link.. saves this feeble mind time when she is sneaking on to BYC at work!!
Shelly

BHep said:

Ok Wolfie.... Got the eggs...intact.

Now I need help decoding.

Lav Am...got that one.
Lav. egg project....got that one too.
SPPR ??
Big Bird ???

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OK you have SPPR.

Big bird has produced Lav Layers from 1st gen eggs. She was the reason I started this and most times her eggs are an even pinker pink. What I would do is breed her chicks back to the lav project egg. I was hoping to get a real lav egg, but as you see, sometimes they are almost gray with tiny smears of blue or brown or both.

If I would have known Wolftracks was sending SPPR I would have taken her eggs.

Link for May Swap May Swap

Do you mark your eggs with the breed? How are you doing that? How many eggs are you suppose to send with the swap? and what does x2, x3, etc. mean?? Is that so you can send to more than one person??

thanks!
*sorry, I'm new at this

RusticDreamer said:

Do you mark your eggs with the breed? How are you doing that? How many eggs are you suppose to send with the swap? and what does x2, x3, etc. mean?? Is that so you can send to more than one person??

thanks!
*sorry, I'm new at this

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i mark all eggs with at least breed/variety (in pencil) and sometimes set date for my own eggs so i don't forget when to put them in the hatcher...
you need to send 6+, but many i think are way more generous than that. i got 11 guinea eggs, sent out 12 (i think?) dorkings
x2, x3 etc is how many swaps you want to do. (get as many as you send out)

i think it's all in the rules on page 1...

RusticDreamer said:

Do you mark your eggs with the breed? How are you doing that? How many eggs are you suppose to send with the swap? and what does x2, x3, etc. mean?? Is that so you can send to more than one person??

thanks!
*sorry, I'm new at this

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Usually the breed or breed code is marked on the egg in pencil (although I use Sharpie quite a bit with no adverse affect). Unless you send goose, turkey, or peafowl, you send at least 6. The others at least 4. You are more than welcome to send more than that. I received a box from BHep with 32 eggs. I sent a box to a Facebook swap with 32 eggs in it (26 quail, 3 duck, and 3 chicken) to a friend. I knew she had room for them. As long as you put in 6 (4 for the others) you may include anything else and as many as you want. People have also purchased eggs to be shipped for the swap. (An idea could be to buy 12+, have some sent to you and pay extra for shipping and have the others sent to your partner. I'm not saying you should do this as I know the breeds you have and anybody will be happy to get them. It is an option for those that may not have many eggs but still want to participate. Somebody bought eggs from me and had me ship them and I have received eggs where this has been done.)

the 2x, 3x, 4x means how many times you entered. Each time you enter will get you an additional swap partner that you send eggs too and receive eggs from. So, Shellyga was 4x so she sent to 4 different people and got eggs from 4 different people.

Don't worry about the questions. Some of us need reminding and we were all new at some point (I was new last June )

Jim