I have bought eggs from ebay 4 times (twice from the same seller so from 3 sellers).
The first was a HORRIBLE experience and I was never going to try again but I really want splash Cochins and I can't find them around me.... The first one I got 12........ 4 were broken, 4 started to grow, 4 did nothing. out of the 4 that grew 1 quit early. 3 made it to hatch day. 2 hatched, 1 DIS. the 2 that hatched were NOT Cochins never mind BBS....... I did message the seller with no luck getting a resolution from them about not getting what I had paid for.. went to ebay and got my $ back.
2nd seller I ordered 18 got 20. Packaged great. All arrive din great shape..... ZERO developed at all......... Messaged her and didn't hear back...... so moved on...
Found the 3rd seller and right in her listing (hers didn't show up in my first or 2nd search for BBS Cochin eggs) she says she has gotten "screwed" buying eggs before and had 1 hatch and she doesn't want to do that to anyone else. So if you have a poor hatch (think she said under 38% so not huge but with shipping you can't expect much) then she will send you out more eggs for just shipping so figured it was worth a shot. she has splash Cochins I wanted and also project chickens (Cochin/EE mix so looks like Cochins, could have beards/muffs but lay green eggs. ) I shoudl have gotten 5 project eggs and 7 splash. the order was messed up and I got 9 project and 3 splash. I messaged her and she explained what happened and offered to send me out a box of splash Cochin eggs as well as some Lavender Brahma and Partridge/Blue Brahma eggs to make up for it. I had already set the other eggs so they would have been 10 days ahead so I asked if we could wait till those hatched. She said Sure. I am only on day 5 of those 12 eggs and 10 for sure are developing, 1 is ? and 1 isn't doing anything. So I am THRILLED with this seller right now! Oh and she has stickers she puts on the boxes saying "Live Chick Embryo" and "Hatching eggs" "handle with care" "no xray" etc. so think that helped with shipping them
right after I won the eggs from the 3rd seller the 2nd one got back to me saying she thought she responded and just noticed she never did. She offered 50% off more eggs... I went back and forth but decided to try again but asked if she could make note on the packaging that there were Hatching eggs in there to see if it helped. She said she doesn't because her PO is worse with the boxes if they are marked...... Got the eggs the same day as seller 3's so set at the same time. Day 4 I checked and there is 1 ? egg, and the rest I didn't see anything AGAIN! I think these ones just get shaken too much in shipping even though they are packaged really well.
The first was a HORRIBLE experience and I was never going to try again but I really want splash Cochins and I can't find them around me.... The first one I got 12........ 4 were broken, 4 started to grow, 4 did nothing. out of the 4 that grew 1 quit early. 3 made it to hatch day. 2 hatched, 1 DIS. the 2 that hatched were NOT Cochins never mind BBS....... I did message the seller with no luck getting a resolution from them about not getting what I had paid for.. went to ebay and got my $ back.
2nd seller I ordered 18 got 20. Packaged great. All arrive din great shape..... ZERO developed at all......... Messaged her and didn't hear back...... so moved on...
Found the 3rd seller and right in her listing (hers didn't show up in my first or 2nd search for BBS Cochin eggs) she says she has gotten "screwed" buying eggs before and had 1 hatch and she doesn't want to do that to anyone else. So if you have a poor hatch (think she said under 38% so not huge but with shipping you can't expect much) then she will send you out more eggs for just shipping so figured it was worth a shot. she has splash Cochins I wanted and also project chickens (Cochin/EE mix so looks like Cochins, could have beards/muffs but lay green eggs. ) I shoudl have gotten 5 project eggs and 7 splash. the order was messed up and I got 9 project and 3 splash. I messaged her and she explained what happened and offered to send me out a box of splash Cochin eggs as well as some Lavender Brahma and Partridge/Blue Brahma eggs to make up for it. I had already set the other eggs so they would have been 10 days ahead so I asked if we could wait till those hatched. She said Sure. I am only on day 5 of those 12 eggs and 10 for sure are developing, 1 is ? and 1 isn't doing anything. So I am THRILLED with this seller right now! Oh and she has stickers she puts on the boxes saying "Live Chick Embryo" and "Hatching eggs" "handle with care" "no xray" etc. so think that helped with shipping them
right after I won the eggs from the 3rd seller the 2nd one got back to me saying she thought she responded and just noticed she never did. She offered 50% off more eggs... I went back and forth but decided to try again but asked if she could make note on the packaging that there were Hatching eggs in there to see if it helped. She said she doesn't because her PO is worse with the boxes if they are marked...... Got the eggs the same day as seller 3's so set at the same time. Day 4 I checked and there is 1 ? egg, and the rest I didn't see anything AGAIN! I think these ones just get shaken too much in shipping even though they are packaged really well.