Age of eggs and hatchability?

[9farmgirl9]

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Where are you getting your eggs and chicks from? I definately don't want to get them there.

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

I have to stick up for the seller real fast...

Those packaging crates are EXPENSIVE as heck. Like, $4 or more for each. The fact that they paid for those to ship them to you says something about them. If USPS smashes the box, it can't be the sellers fault for not spending enough energy on packaging, especially if they buy the Cadillac of egg shippers. Just some food for thought, that it's not ALWAYS the sellers fault.

(Believe me, as an egg seller, I see people who jump to conclusions all the time about my shipping, when really the truth is far from what they think.)

Again, just my 0.02!

 

[Fowler Hencock]

The weakness with those foam egg shippers is in a hit from the side. Eggs are reasonably protected from top to bottom, but eggs as large as peafowl eggs will hit each other hard enough to break, if the box is dropped on it's side.



I won't use them unless I'm shipping eight or less eggs, and can stagger them every other hole. Putting large eggs next to each other in those is just asking for trouble.

 

[ranit]

I don't like the foam shippers either. I ordered several different types of quail eggs from several different sellers a few years back and the ones shipped in the foam always arrived in the worst shape. On top of there being more broken, the good ones would be stuck to the foam due to the mess of the broken ones. Quail eggs being so fragile I had a heck of a time getting them unstuck without breaking them.

 

[deerman]

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Yes those foam shipping pads DON'T PROTECT THE EGGS ..seller may have tried. Eggs on the outside rolls, lot get broken , myself like posted before i can ship eggs for 4 years without any broken(not one) tells me the packing is the trick.

I have use bubble wrap, foam cups, double box is the biggest help, had one buyer received my eggs with a hole in the side of the box ,he said you could put 3 fingers in, still no broken egg.

The dead air space between the two boxes protect the inter box.

People shipping eggs need to think what happens . When the side of a box gets push in, box may return back, but those eggs are still broken. Boxes packed together on a skid or going down a conveyor will get side push in, so save your self trouble double box, boxes are free from the USPS,

I'M so sure of this packing I ALWAY GUARANTEED BUYER WILL GET THE EGGS ....UNBROKEN.....Have not shipped many this year , but this would be 5 years shipping eggs without even ONE BROKEN...

 

[amberkay]

Its not the Post Offices fault if the eggs weren't properly packaged. The package should have been marked "fragile chicken eggs". I'm sorry the dumb arse tossed them My suggestion is always send them express overnite.