2014 breeding season begins, post your results

[casportpony]

Sorry about your shipped eggs. Best of luck to you both, I hope you beat the odds and hatch lots of chicks!

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

Sorry about your shipped eggs. Best of luck to you both, I hope you beat the odds and hatch lots of chicks!

-Kathy

Sad thing with mine is they were packaged well, The box was banged up but the eggs were unbroken. The detached air cells just show how mistreated the package was and the PO should be ashamed of itself, no wonder they are always on the verge of bankruptcy, with service like this. We shall see, I will keep posting their progress or lack there of.

 

[casportpony]

Sorry about your shipped eggs. Best of luck to you both, I hope you beat the odds and hatch lots of chicks!


-Kathy

Sad thing with mine is they were packaged well, The box was banged up but the eggs were unbroken. The detached air cells just show how mistreated the package was and the PO should be ashamed of itself, no wonder they are always on the verge of bankruptcy, with service like this. We shall see, I will keep posting their progress or lack there of.

Someone in the Nor Cal thread has done a lot of research on shipped eggs, I'll see if I can find a link. Not saying he knows better than you, but maybe you'll find his data useful?

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

Someone in the Nor Cal thread has done a lot of research on shipped eggs, I'll see if I can find a link. Not saying he knows better than you, but maybe you'll find his data useful?

-Kathy

Please do. I am in no way an expert with shipped eggs. I've done some research and what you are seeing now is me experimenting and trying to practically apply the info and see if any of it works. I would love to hatch a bunch of shipped eggs, but I don't like throwing money away anymore than anyone else does. I have Peas here and I have their children and grandchildren as well. I have kept careful track of who is who, so I am not inbreeding, but I would prefer to mix in more new genes.

 

[KsKingBee]

While we are talking eggs, last night I got an egg from my pied pen, yay, but it has a lot of 'warts' on the outside of the shell. Is this a sign of too much calcium in her diet?

 

[zazouse]

Just a little calcium deposit , it does not mean they are getting to much calcium, sometime new layers will lay eggs like this it will even itself out in time, not to worry.

 

[DylansMom]

Just a little calcium deposit , it does not mean they are getting to much calcium, sometime new layers will lay eggs like this it will even itself out in time, not to worry.

Not just new layers either, I have a pied hen 8 or 9 years old now, and she lays bumpy eggs every year. Some are really rough feeling, makes me feel sorry for her, can't be comfortable to pass those.

 

[casportpony]

This thread is *really* long, but it probably has some good info it it.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/704328/diary-notes-air-cell-detatched-shipped-eggs

-Kathy

 

[mandyok]

Sorry about the eggs. I hope they make for you all. Fingers crossed. I hate the PO treated them so ruff. I see red after what I paid for shipping. That box was in perfect shape when it left. I may make a few phone calls as well.

 

[margaret8]

Sorry about the eggs. I hope they make for you all. Fingers crossed. I hate the PO treated them so ruff. I see red after what I paid for shipping. That box was in perfect shape when it left. I may make a few phone calls as well.

Have you gotten your eggs yet from the PO?