Buy it Now~12+ Delaware Eggs

[kmollyhughes]

Hi! Can you ship with heat packs? It's SUPER cold here....

 

[cpartist]

I can include a heat pack for 5.00 more. Or maybe you just want to wait until conditions are more favorable in your area?

 

[rancher hicks]

Would you like to send me an e-mail for when you think it's safe to ship to NY?

 

[Lroach711]

Do you have any eggs available now?

 

[cpartist]

I do. It might not be the best time to ship, with NY day on Wed, but I could send some out Fri of next week, or the following Monday. Send me a PM if interested.

 

[rancher hicks]

You never responded to my earlier e-mail.

 

[cpartist]

I'm sorry, I don't think I got an email or PM from you?

 

[rancher hicks]

Sorry I meant for you to send me one when you think it's safe to ship to NY. You can also send me a pm. I am interested just don't know when you think it's safe. Some think it's safe any time. The last batch of BR's I got from Florida were a bust.

I don't think they were good eggs or packed very well. I hatch some of my own as a control group and my chicks were okay. The shipped eggs out of 12 I got 2. One, not a BR and both scrawny.

I'm good with a 25% on shipped eggs but usually do better.

 

[cpartist]

Rancher, to be very safe as far as temps go, I would say that when your extended forecast shows the low temps above 30 around delivery time would be best. I have shipped eggs when temps were much colder than that and they have done quite well, but that assumes they are not left sitting on a loading dock half a day, or delivered to sit on your front porch all day even if they are marked to be held at the PO. Anything can happen, but generally I think cold is better than extreme heat. I use pine shavings in the outer box and that gives them some degree of insulation. Generally mail keeps moving and they would have to sit in subfreezing temps for a long time before the eggs themselves would freeze, but I understand your wanting to wait until conditions are more favorable. Just watch your weather and shoot me a PM about a week before you are wanting to set : )

 

[rancher hicks]

I just finished with some eggs wrapped in paper towels and placed in the carton and packed in shavings. Chicks that did hatch had not absorbed the yolk fully and I expect only one to survive out of the two that did hatch.
I'm not inexperienced so I figure it was the eggs. Other eggs just did not hatch. I have hatched shipped eggs before and done better.

I might not be upset except the one that will survived is not the BR that I'd ordered. I don't know what breed it is. Such is life.