American serama thread!

Try shaking an egg and then candling it to see how much shaking an egg can take before the air cell becomes detached. If you are like me, you'll be even more put out with the postal system!
 
That's good news for me here in Illinois.

Other good news. I have a dozen serama eggs that will be ready for pick up tomorrow. Thanks TJ for shipping them out so quickly!
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I am in complete agreement with your assessment. As an aside-my sun conures (tropical parrots) are outside in the unheated coop with the serama showing signs of nesting. Temperatures have gone down in the teens. They are thriving for the same reason your serama are. Mine too.
I raise parrots as well. I find that if they are acclimated they do well in the cold weather. I have a few Seramas that I am bringing in at night right now because they are not used to the weather here yet. By next winter they should be fine. I also am more careful with the silkied Seramas. As long as they have plenty of snuggle buddies they seem to be doing okay also. With the parrots, I feel their feet and watch how they're acting and if they are cold I bring them in. All my parrot birds can stay out now. I'm not in a cold climate, but it does go into the twenties and gets very windy.

Try shaking an egg and then candling it to see how much shaking an egg can take before the air cell becomes detached. If you are like me, you'll be even more put out with the postal system!
We had to spin an egg in a sock before we could get the air cell to rupture. I think the constant jiggling on trucks does more damage to them than being dropped or bounced or squashed under heavy boxes. Probably a lot of vibrating on those conveyor belts too.
 
Just got a dozen eggs shipped from CA to WV. 5 had totally detached air cells (would totally float all the way around the egg, and a couple even separated into multiple air cells). 2 of those started, but quit on day 8. The others never started. The ones that the air cells stayed in place, although wobbly, are looking great thru day 9.
 

I wasn't very clear. It was the sudden stop from spinning the egg in a sock and then pulling the sock tight. It's a method for making scrambled eggs in the shell :)
I ship thousands of eggs a year. It's all about shock prevention. I do know the more time spent on the ground in a truck, the worse they are. I more often have undamaged eggs shipped across the country than if I ship just a few hours away. The big mail trucks are rough.
One thing that can help with the hard knocks is to pay an extra $12. For special handling. With that, the package is handled by hand instead of machine. Still goes on trucks but helps prevent some of the other hard bumps and dumps. I usually recommend having the box held at the P.O. for pick up also. Not that they'll always do it, but is worth it for that last ride to be a smooth one.
 

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