Chat Thread for the New Crazy 24 hour Auction

[brucifer]

My wife just bought a GQF Sportsman 1502 yesterday, so we're anxious just to put some hatching eggs in it and let it do its thing. She's a hatchaholic, but I love to watch chicks and ducks grow to adulthood. I guess we make a pretty good team. Anyway, I'll bid is just about anything right now. lol

I don't know if they ever much come up for auction, but I would love to bid on some Cayuga ducks. The blacker the eggs, the better.

 

[Bluechick2u]

Now that broodies have stopped stealing all the others eggs, i wanted to do some lav orp eggs too, but this rain is ridiculous! so i feel your pain.

Any updates on the lav orp eggs? I've been lurking...

 

[Robin Koski]

Candled my eggs for the second time last night. Looks like I definately have 5 Ayam Cemani and possibly 6. Air pockets look good or at least I think they do???? Please let me know what you think!

 

[WVduckchick]

Any updates on the lav orp eggs? I've been lurking...

Yep, they look pretty good. I'll list a dozen+ on the auction thread within the next few hours.

 

[Bluechick2u]

I will let you know tomorrow if I can run an auction... unfortunately, we got a ton of rain really fast and todays eggs ended up mucky thanks to mud and broodys...

Unless a muddy egg auction would be ok?

Noooooooo!!!
I missed the end of the auction, my husband fell and twisted his ankle and chaos ensued, I am SO bummed!!!

 

[Bluechick2u]

Yep, they look pretty good. I'll list a dozen+ on the auction thread within the next few hours.

I have gotten about a dozen different egg shipments, all either very scrambled or crushed, I think it's an additional 10.00 to add special handling to the eggs? If so, I'd like to try that, I am so tired of hoping for the best and getting... another crushed box. I have an extremely rough hub near me, tried to narrow down which one but I've had to give up on that. It's totally unfair to egg sellers to have to file claims at the postal service, they are not compensating the sellers for their time wrapping all those eggs.

 

[brucifer]

@Bluechick2u : Sorry to hear about your husband's twisted ankle. Hope he's doing better today.

Even with perfect packaging, you can end up with broken air cells and scrambled eggs if postal service employees handle your package like gorillas or allow the automated equipment to rough-up your package. The good thing though is that this is a good time of year to ship because package volume is relatively light (although maybe not so much temperaturewise if it's a long, cross-country trip).

The worst time of year to ship hatching eggs is between Thanksgiving and the new year. Fortunately, not a lot of hatching eggs are shipped that time of year. Many years ago I worked at UPS as a boxline sorter, and during the holiday period package volume would get so high that we didn't have enough available employees to keep up with it. The result would be that packages would get crushed on the coveyor belts and slides. When that happened we used to call it the "meat grinder." It was sad to see. We had people working whose only job was to process damages and to re-tape and repackage packages that had broken open. Anyway, one of the worst damages that I had to deal with was when a 5-gallon container of bull semen broke open on the conveyor and rolled down the slide. That stuff got everywhere, on everything, and on just about everyone. You can just imagine! Talk about gumming up the operation! Yuck! Although I never had to deal with broken-open, shipped eggs; I'm sure that wouldn't have been fun either.

Good luck on your bidding.

 

[brucifer]

@WVduckchick : Very beautiful Lavender Orps! I remember you told me that they are American, but they are so full that they look almost English. One of the local breeders in Georgia has some nice English Lavs, so I'll probably get mine there, but I'm very impressed with yours! Good luck with your auction!

 

[WVduckchick]

@WVduckchick : Very beautiful Lavender Orps! I remember you told me that they are American, but they are so full that they look almost English. One of the local breeders in Georgia has some nice English Lavs, so I'll probably get mine there, but I'm very impressed with yours! Good luck with your auction!

Thank you! I very much appreciate the compliment!

 

[Bluechick2u]

@Bluechick2u : Sorry to hear about your husband's twisted ankle. Hope he's doing better today.

Even with perfect packaging, you can end up with broken air cells and scrambled eggs if postal service employees handle your package like gorillas or allow the automated equipment to rough-up your package. The good thing though is that this is a good time of year to ship because package volume is relatively light (although maybe not so much temperaturewise if it's a long, cross-country trip).

The worst time of year to ship hatching eggs is between Thanksgiving and the new year. Fortunately, not a lot of hatching eggs are shipped that time of year. Many years ago I worked at UPS as a boxline sorter, and during the holiday period package volume would get so high that we didn't have enough available employees to keep up with it. The result would be that packages would get crushed on the coveyor belts and slides. When that happened we used to call it the "meat grinder." It was sad to see. We had people working whose only job was to process damages and to re-tape and repackage packages that had broken open. Anyway, one of the worst damages that I had to deal with was when a 5-gallon container of bull semen broke open on the conveyor and rolled down the slide. That stuff got everywhere, on everything, and on just about everyone. You can just imagine! Talk about gumming up the operation! Yuck! Although I never had to deal with broken-open, shipped eggs; I'm sure that wouldn't have been fun either.

Good luck on your bidding.

Thank you! Do you think UPS would be better at shipping than USPS? I have to assume that my local USPS shipping hub just DOESN'T have any staff for sorting, all fragile labels have been completely ignored, even the "caution liquid syrup" trick, am positive that it is entirely automated, or I'd have to assume at this point that it's being done on purpose.
Bull semen... bet you can't look at a bull without at least a mental flinch now! OMG, I am still flinching for you!!! Good thing you've not had a broken egg shipment, got one recently and the rotten egg smell just about knocked me over! With all the heat, it didn't stand a chance!
My husband sympathizes with you on the bull semen too, and he says thank you for the well-wishing.