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[Ashdoes]

That's what I thought too, but I didn't find any traces of egg or egg shell when I cleaned out the coop. Of course, they could have eaten the evidence. I'm not sure.

If an egg broke, for any reason, they would absolutely eat every bit of it, and possibly fight over it. But, with chickens, who the heck knows what's going on, unless you see it.

 

[alebuela]

I don't know, she might be good in show

Never thought of that. It would be a whole other world that I'm not prepared to get in to at this point in my life. I'd prefer to re-home her, although there was a really interesting thread just today about breaking a mean hen of the habit. So if no one wants my Speckli, I will try to get her to change her ways.

 

[Ashdoes]

My shipped eggs have arrived. They're in perfect condition, only saw one with a possible detached air cell. And, they're super fresh, which is a concern when you're buying from eBay. With all the extras she sent, they're $2 per egg, which is an awesome deal.
It's kind of funny, you'd think the postal workers would be used to these type shipments by now. The seller wrote, 'LIVE EMBRYOS' and 'DO NOT XRAY' on the box...and my husband said the lady in the PO gave him this weird look while she handed him the box and said, are there really embryos in there? She was so confused. He had to explain what was in the box, and that they're fertile hatching eggs, so yes they're embryos and we don't want them xrayed.
We have the eggs resting, and will set them tomorrow. We're collecting mostly Cream Legbar eggs right now, because I want more of the olive eggers. In a couple months I'll have way too many eggs.

 

[maggiemo]

When I picked up my eggs from the post office they were in a box marked "Fragile" and "Live Embryos" and the lady flipped the box in the air around and around to find the label...I screamed! The whole place just stared at me and I said, 'see where it says, fragile and live embryos'? And she just handed me the box.
I have to say, all 10 eggs have developed and

are meant to hatch Saturday-ish....

 

[maggiemo]

Ash, I got some domineggers from Wendell. Hoping for olive eggers. They are beautiful birds. I kept two and one lays a beautiful olive colored egg the other lays a light brown egg. I also ordered three olive eggers from Meyer hatchery last year, same thing, one lays a beautiful olive egg and the other lays a nice brown egg, one got killed in my one and only predator attack.
They are all really beautiful birds whatever color egg they lay.
Hope you get some nice birds and eggs from your hatch.

 

[KLBCOS]

Never thought of that. It would be a whole other world that I'm not prepared to get in to at this point in my life. I'd prefer to re-home her, although there was a really interesting thread just today about breaking a mean hen of the habit. So if no one wants my Speckli, I will try to get her to change her ways.

Could you share a ink to that thread? TIA

 

[COChix]

Ash, I got some domineggers from Wendell. Hoping for olive eggers. They are beautiful birds. I kept two and one lays a beautiful olive colored egg the other lays a light brown egg. I also ordered three olive eggers from Meyer hatchery last year, same thing, one lays a beautiful olive egg and the other lays a nice brown egg, one got killed in my one and only predator attack.
They are all really beautiful birds whatever color egg they lay.
Hope you get some nice birds and eggs from your hatch.  

Never heard of domineggers and who is Wendell. Do you have pics of the domineggers?

 

[Ashdoes]

Ash, I got some domineggers from Wendell. Hoping for olive eggers. They are beautiful birds. I kept two and one lays a beautiful olive colored egg the other lays a light brown egg. I also ordered three olive eggers from Meyer hatchery last year, same thing, one lays a beautiful olive egg and the other lays a nice brown egg, one got killed in my one and only predator attack.
They are all really beautiful birds whatever color egg they lay.
Hope you get some nice birds and eggs from your hatch.  

I have two mixes from the Cream Legbars already...they were Cream roo over a Wyandotte and over a Cochin. Both girls lay the prettiest green eggs. We really enjoy the Wyandotte mixes personality, which is funny, because we never liked our full Wyandottes. I'm hoping Cochin roo over Cream hen gives us some pretty mixes as well. The Cochin Cream mix girl is like a smaller version of a cochin, with light barring on her fuzzy thighs. I would love a couple of the cream mixes to have a crest, that would be pretty. We'll see.
I haven't seen Wendell on in a long time. I hope he's doing well.

 

[oshun55555]

My shipped eggs have arrived. They're in perfect condition, only saw one with a possible detached air cell. And, they're super fresh, which is a concern when you're buying from eBay. With all the extras she sent, they're $2 per egg, which is an awesome deal.
It's kind of funny, you'd think the postal workers would be used to these type shipments by now. The seller wrote, 'LIVE EMBRYOS' and 'DO NOT XRAY' on the box...and my husband said the lady in the PO gave him this weird look while she handed him the box and said, are there really embryos in there? She was so confused. He had to explain what was in the box, and that they're fertile hatching eggs, so yes they're embryos and we don't want them xrayed.
We have the eggs resting, and will set them tomorrow. We're collecting mostly Cream Legbar eggs right now, because I want more of the olive eggers. In a couple months I'll have way too many eggs.

my postman out here told me that if the sender puts live embryos and do not xray on the box, you can be guaranteed some a-hole employee with throw the box and around and go out of their way to xray it, he told me to tell the sender to put nothing on the box, he giveS me the real dirt on it, i give him free eggs and in the summer vegetables from the garden so he is pretty good about telling me the real deal.

 

[uzisuzuki]

my postman out here told me that if the sender puts live embryos and do not xray on the box, you can be guaranteed some a-hole employee with throw the box and around and go out of their way to xray it, he told me to tell the sender to put nothing on the box, he giveS me the real dirt on it, i give him free eggs and in the summer vegetables from the garden so he is pretty good about telling me the real deal.

I was also told to do this! Like, how petty do you have to be to behave like that with a package labeled as such?