I have to laugh every time I am led onto this forum looking for something as it moves SOOOOO fast. I can't believe I used to be able to keep up. But, no way now. Anyways, yes she picked them up.
I am sure last time it was that the sat in West Sac in the back of a truck for 10-12 hours in the heat we had!! That week, I had literally 0 eggs out of probably 50-60 that shipped develop. And many of those I had set the same breeds and I had normal development on the ones that I set. When I looked into it with my postmaster she said west sac had been backed up all week so trucks were literally just dropping their trailers and the west sac folks got to unloading it when they had time. :-( In any case, they are laying again, so we can try again when the weather looks cooler or whenever you want. I think it was a fluke. most of the eggs that I've had shipped in Northern CA develop at about 65-75% of my normal development rates, and about 55-65% of my hatch rate. I've done a few tests recently where I set half of the exact same eggs I shipped. Out of 40, I had 37 develop and I hatched 33. The person I shipped to had around 26-28 develop of the 40 eggs and around 18 hatch. Numbers may not be exactly correct as I can't recall and obviously there could be incubation differences but it's a telling tale about dealing with hatching shipped eggs even just within a few hours drive of the shipper. Small chance I will be going to chico in the next few weeks so if I do we can meet up. OR, if anyone travels the redding to chico trip and wants to haul along some eggs let me know.
OH WAIT!!! I am pretty sure someone is coming tomorrow from Chico to get some chicks.... love it when the brain kicks in. Let me look up her messages and see if that's right. I'll send you a PM... sorry for those of you witnessing my thought process in text form!!!
