My frustration with shipped eggs!!

[cat123]

My biggest issue with shipped eggs has been --

1. the eggs were not fertile
2. they have not been the breed that i brought.

 

[insiderart]

It's so hit and miss. Some lots I get from certain sellers develop great! But then other lots, nothing...

I've had some great lots that I killed. If they develop at all (except early blood rings) I consider that on me if I lose them. But these didn't develop at all... not even a speck. I need to learn how to tell if they are fertile I guess. And start checking for that when they arrive?

And these were not lots that the PO kept in transit forever, they were packed well, none broken, aircells all good, GAAAAAAAAA!

 

[IggiMom]

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I have baby Welsummers also! Where did you get yours? I had mine shipped from Estes!

I am not sure it is being shipped that is the problem. We'll see. Those eggs mostly (not all, but many) seemed to develop and when I candled them there were little swimming embryos. I was so excited. And then they didn't hatch.

So perhaps the problem is not the shipping but the incubation, and we will see, because, as I said, Big Momma is sitting on some nice little Serama eggs. They were shipped.

Catherine

 

[Lextextrapper]

I'm with you on the shipped eggs. I had 50 bobwhite quail eggs that shipped to me from only 180 miles away and I hatched 22 chicks. That's a pitiful 44% hatch.

 

[IggiMom]

Haha, I don't know, at my present rate of success, I think I would be ecstatic with your 44% hatch!

Catherine

 

[JewellFarm]

I guess I feel pretty fortunate. Over the last 5 days I have gotten 5 french black copper marans from a shipment of 8 and a seperate shipment of 7. 10 NH and Delaware maran x out of 15 shipped eggs, 5 Lavender Orpingtons only 1 of which was lavender out of 16 shipped eggs, but I am thrilled to get one. And last but not least one peacock out of two shipped eggs. These are the breeds that I really wanted to focus on and no way could I ever find these around here where I live. My stress level over the last few days sky rocketed. I am so glad all the hatching is done and I can enjoy all of my new babies now, LOL.

 

[Call_me _crazy]

This thread doesn't look so promising!! I just bought silkie eggs being shipped from the breeder today. And a dozen mixed batam eggs. Thought I would try my hand at it. I am very nerve now. I want my silkies so bad. It will just break my heart if I don't get them.

 

[bigmike&nan]

I don't think you can put all the blame on the USPS. We got four eggs from RBAMTERRY and we had four hatch... Shipped Priority Mail.

I think you have to take into account that some of the eggs may never have been fertile when they were shipped - it's not all USPS's "fault" - or ours. I say this as a guy currently in lockdown on his very first hatch (assorted bantam cochin frizzles). I figure my eggs were 8 days old by the time my incubator got here and I got them in - add to that the normal novice hatcher little screwups we magnify a million times and I will be estatic if I get 6 out of 16... Estatic

I hope all of you reading this have great hatches.

 

[IggiMom]

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Ok, you know what?

I am wondering if it isn't the shipped eggs, maybe it is ME!

I jumped into hatching (and please, I am not saying this is true for the rest of you), and I did try to do my best, but I was and am a Newbie, and maybe I need a better thermometer and a better hygrometer and not try to do staggered hatches!

Just one bunch at a time and GET EVERYTHING RIGHT!

So try not to be too discouraged, because a lot more comes into play than the shipping!

I am going to try again. But I am going to try better to have all my ducks, um, eggs, in a row.

Catherine

 

[waibel zoo]

I am so there. I bought 2 dozen eggs from people here. The eggs from one seller arrived perfect, but half were 10 days old or older. The second batch arrived fresh, but 2 were broken, 2 cracked. I paid a young lady I know to hatch them in her sportsman. I have never hatched and thought well she has and she has a nice incubator. The second dozen she dropped half of on the floor and broke them. She called me crying and I just wanted my money back. SHe agreed. On the first batch, by the end I had 3 survivors. By 3 days late I went over and we opened them. 2 had quit on day17 ish and the other was fully developed, yolk absorbed, air sac pipped, and feces in the shell. I was devasted. Then I looked at her incubator. She keep her humidity constant at 80%. So I am thinking they drowned.

So I barrowed an incubator from the extesion office. The seller of the first batch was nice enough to replace them at shipping cost. I ordered Jen's silkies and got my 3 remaining eggs that were supposed to hatch from this girl. I put them all together. MISTAKE! The reamining 3 never pipped. At 3 days late I started to open them. 1 was dead, 2 alive. SO I put the alive ones back in and left them. They died too. I wish now i had helped them out. So far I am out $57 and no chicks.

I have however just ordered 3 dozen more and barrowed another incubator and will try again. If it does not go well, I give up too. I am just hoping for a 25% hatch.