smoothmule,
Please don't fuss at me, I know shipping is a gamble, I know the tufts and rumplessness are a gamble. I've gotten enough to know. I was just stating the fact the only 4 our of 16 formed in the shells at the second shipment, and four formed but didn't hatch on the first. I'm merely venting that the seller didn't respond even if it was I'm sorry but...., and that for $80, the most I have and will have ever spent on eggs, I ended up with 2 chicks. I don't blame the seller, I'm just upset with the outcome.
Also, I was merely asking if anybody would be selling chicks that would ship. I don't care wether tufted, rumpless or not, I'd be looking at buying the entire hatch to add some distant genes to decrease inbreeding and increase my gene pool. I'm a "new breeder" and I am just looking at what I can bring in to better my flock, what i'll end up to cross with whom and how I can use it to help what i'm working towards. I'm not picky on the chicks- if it's tufted I'm happy, if it's tailed... oh well, I'll just use it as a layer for now, if it's rumpless and cleanfaced... it'll work for me. I do this for the hobby, any money made goes directly back towards the hobby- please don't offend me or turn me away because I was venting or I asked a question that everyone asks at one point, My question was the complete opposite- I just would prefer to not deal with trying to hatch out shipped eggs anymore and to not bring in older birds, I'd like to raise them from chicks.
~I hope you don't take this as offensive or rude, I certainly don't mean to come across rude or offensive~
Tyler