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I use the 7 x 7 x 6 USPS Priority boxes. They can fit up to 9 eggs (I only sell mine in lots of 6+)
I use bubble wrap on the bottom of the box.
Then I wrap each egg in 1/2 a sheet of paper towel and put them into an egg carton, fat end up. The egg carton has been cut in half.
Then...
ok you egg shipping wizards, I need help.
I have ordered plenty of eggs online and recieved them both scrambled and not. I used what I thought were the best of my non scrambled examples to ship some this week. I thought I had learned enough to try shipping a few eggs.
FAIL!
Of the two...
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I tried emailing you a little while ago about your Tolbunts, did you not get it? My Polish are now laying btw.
ooh ooh I can't wait to see what you get for babies. mine aren't laying yet but it must be soon.
cross your fingers for luck for me. I posted my first egg auctions. two two day auctions, one for BLRW and one for lav and lav split ameraucanas. so far they are doing ok.
I have like three million pounds of bubble wrap for them. I hope they do well.
egg pics are up. Thanks for asking. As far as socialization goes, these guys are like other chickens and motivated by food. If I hold out food they come investigate and sit at my feet. I'm sure I could make them lap chickens if I spent time on it. They are not curious about me as my...
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ahhh but you really need one of these!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15626_buff_barred_rooster.jpg
and I'm not gonna tell who has em till after i get my eggs
eta more photos on net...
the hens are laying quite strongly and I'm getting 6 eggs a day. I have been alerted (sorry I didn't know this) that they should be three days or less so I'm going to reduce the auction to 18+ to keep to the three days or less rule. I am PMing those who have bid to alert them and allow them to...
Incubator is overflowing. time to share.
These robust birds have done well for us whether laying, breeding, or showing. They are hardy. Each hen is laying 3-4 eggs per week. The roos have won at our local shows at the Puyallup (Western Washington) Fair and the Evergreen State Fair last...
This is from my flock of lavenders. Roo is a large split black male from Pips n Peeps.
Hens are 1 black split from Pips n Peeps and 5 lavender hens from Backyard Farms.
Egg color ranges from blue to greenish. The hens have good type but two of them are small. Use of this roo should...
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OK... so those great summer pics helped me to be distracted from to snow enough to remember something.
If anyone wants some perennials from my yard just let me know and I can bring them to Monroe. I have orange geums, snow in summer which is white and hardy geraniums that have...
thanks to all of you for your help
to encapsualate
blacks only with lavs
wheatens bred with anything but blue wheatens or wheatens are EEs
white must be bred with white.
and I'll go look at that white hen posted right now.
thanks again!
Ameraucanas newbie color question if you have a moment to answer.
I understand that I can put black blue and splash into a cage and the offspring are black blue or splash depending on luck and what colors I started with.
And I think I can put wheaten in with blue to get blue wheatens
And I...
if anyone has a gold laced polish roo, I'm looking for one.
Both the roos I had for my frizzle tolbunt hen did not pan out, the tolbunt due to a genetic defect and the gold laced polish I bought as a chick is not fertile.
Jean, those lavender ameraucana crosses you sold me are enormous. I'm...
just wanted to say hi to everyone after this oh so busy winter, and to celebrate the first hatches of spring. We have a bunch of cute BLRW and marans on the ground. Next are spitzhaubens (finally fertile after i borrowed a lovely rooster) and bbs and lavender ameraucanas.
I love hatching babies.