ALABAMA!!

[Wisher1000]

We cut 3-4 inch strips of small bubble wrap. Wrap up the newspapered eggs in it.

Fill up the regional box A halfway with poly-fill pillow stuffing (big clear bag at walmart craft dept).
Nestle the eggs in (up to 15 wrapped eggs will fit). Air cells up of course
Pack poly fill on top of the eggs filling the box tight. Tape shut.

Get a medium flat rate box. Cut out a square of big bubble wrap to lay flat in the bottom of it. Place your packed and taped regional box A in the medium flat rate box.
Add big bubble wrap along the sides between the 2 boxes to make a tight fit.
Add a square of big bubble wrap on top.
Tape shut and label with names and addresses ONLY. Do not write anything else on the box. No live embryos. No fragile. No nothing.
We have had 1 damaged aircell in the past 150 eggs we shipped this way

Is this the white cottony stuff that is used in stuffed animals and cheap bed pillows?

This is how I have had the best luck, as well. The less attention brought to the box, the better.

Would you please add this information to my thread "The Great Egg Shipping Experiment" so others can take advantage of your experience? I have some eggs to ship next week and will try your method and report my results there.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/738943/the-great-egg-shipping-experiment

 

[1kluckychik]

[COLOR=0000CD]Is this the white cottony stuff that is used in stuffed animals and cheap bed pillows?[/COLOR]

[COLOR=008000]This is how I have had the best luck, as well.  The less attention brought to the box, the better.[/COLOR]

Would you please add this information to my thread "The Great Egg Shipping Experiment" so others can take advantage of your experience?  I have some eggs to ship next week and will try your method and report my results there.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/738943/the-great-egg-shipping-experiment

Yes. In the craft section at WalMart. Big clear bag with a teddy bear pattern on the back.

Is there a way you could move it over to your thread? I had to type it all out on this stupid phone. If not I will add it later this evening

 

[Wisher1000]

I will, just didn't want to without your knowledge or permission! Thanks.

 

[Alaskan]

I was wondering if anyone along their travel route would have:


Any Spitzhauben??? Any color.


Any bantam that lays brown eggs


Any Leghorns that lay large eggs


And yes, I am happy to pay resonable rates through PayPal.

There is a person who lives a couple of miles from me who raises Spitzhauben. I messaged her and will put you guys in contact if she has eggs I can bring next Sat. I only have the DBL and the isabelles. The isabelle eggs I have are not directly related to Bama and Klucky chic's isabelles. Their eggs aren't huge, just normal size.

That would ROCK!!!!

I at this point have an asortment of Leghorns, and some of the "fancy" colors have small eggs... Like large bantam size. It drives me crazy.

I need to figure out which ones keep laying these small eggs... They should be ashamed!

Anyway, med to med-large are great, I am just frustrated with the little things I have been getting.

 

[Stumpy]

I am searching for Cream Legbar or Sussex pullets in the Tuscaloosa area. Anyone?

 

[Wisher1000]

Hey, Stumpy, do you still have the Black Copper Marans that you got from me?

 

[1kluckychik]

I am searching for Cream Legbar or Sussex pullets in the Tuscaloosa area.  Anyone?

Would you want cream legbar chicks?

 

[1kluckychik]

How was the Newnan show Wisher?

 

[Wisher1000]

I had a stroke of luck this past weekend. I went to Newnan, GA for a poultry show. Last night I was having trouble sleeping, so I left my hotel room and went to the lobby where I was on the hotel computer. A man stopped to talk and through the course of the conversation he mentioned that his BCM hen won her class. I asked if she was for sale and he said she wasn't but he had one of her sisters that he would sell me for $30. I said, "I'll take her. "

So this morning at the show, he comes to me and says that he knows I'm going to be mad, but his daughter had sold the hen yesterday and hadn't told him. To make a long story short, I got $80 worth of mahogany colored hatching eggs for $30!!! The flash really washed them out.... they are nice!

The pink ones are RIR that are in for a fertility test. Okay, they don't look pink in the photo, but they do IRL.

 

[1kluckychik]

Awesome.