Disappointed in eggs

[walkswithdog]

Or a shaken, punted or dropped box. With shipping it's always a crapshoot. And it's rarely fertility if you're dealing with people you know. It's just that shipping an egg is a totally weird and alien thing to do and sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.

 

[Prettiest Frog]

I had a box of 24 mixed purebreds sent a while back, and I swear the post office held and inpromptu game of kickball with the box. Not a single air sac left intact. I incubated them and gave the dark ones the full time period, just in case, but not a single hatch. Honestly I think the boxes marked fragile get abused more then the ones left unmarked. I'm lucky in that there are a couple clerks in the post office that want to get colorful eggs from me now and then, and they'll often hand-deliver during their breaks rather than let the packages go out with the idiot carrier.

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

Sorry about your eggs. I got eggs and got an 100% hatch so I bought more and none of them hatched. Alot depends on how they are handled in route.

 

[TK Poultry]

thats just a gamble when you buy eggs i bought four local eggs and they were all duds! its just a gamble but in my expierence the best eggs are ones you get from your own coop. those are the best eggs IMO ive had the best luck with my eggs!

better luck next time.....hope your three do well and maybe some of the others will change in the next time you candle

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Yeah, I have two chickens that are worth almost $40 each, thanks to shipping two batches of eggs!

 

[greathorse]

About a year ago I shipped 48 eggs 240.00 plus shipping great packaging not a single broken egg and the boxes looked like they had not been touched. A very reputable breeder as well.

I hatched 5 chicks three roosters. I might add that I get somewhere around 90% hatches on my own stuff. My theory continues to be that the pressure changes in the aircraft blows the cells. I am not sure that I can prove that but it seems to be the case. I will be getting a few shipped eggs this year and then hope to be finished with that as it is just so unpredictable.

If your supplier is sending you more eggs I would for sure do more than help with the shipping I would pay for it and feel blessed that the breeder is so thoughtful.

My breeder was not in a position to do that as they had more orders at the time than they could fill.

 

[walkswithdog]

I've hatched shipped eggs about a dozen times now and most of them have been 60% or better hatches. One totally dud hatch in twelve. Two hatches were fewer than 30% went and finished. Luck of the draw. No cabin pressure is an unlikely problem since eggs travel in the exact same compartment as live cargo, like puppies and baby birds. And if it killed eggs it would kill puppies and baby birds in transit as well. It's the responsibility of the airline to live cargo and they rarely if ever blow it because they're liable for some very animal heavy shipments - it would represent a huge liability issue and monetary loss for them. So no, it happens rarely if at all and you'd see it mentioned if any airline routinely killed plane loads of cargo.

Tossing, leaving in the cold, leaving in the sun, playing kickball - the usual postal gorilla stuff is far more likely. An hour in the sun or in the icy wind on the tarmac and you'd never SEE it in the eggs, btw freezing to a significant degree will rupture aircells. And so will a few hours over 120... which you also can't see when they get there.