E-Bay Peacock egg sellers

[Birdrain92]

Absolutely only problem is sometimes what you want is 400 miles away. I bought 15 eggs once hatched 10 all females and still had to drive from MS to FL. As far as shipping eggs be prepared to be called every name in the book. I ship eggs never older than 24 hrs old most experienced hatchers get 70% so I ship a couple extra. But every year there is some Newby that I tried to talk out of hatching that will insult me saying none of the eggs from 5 different 4yr old pens was fertile. If they asked for help I would help them with their incubator and even ship them chicks but instead they just call you names.

I've heard people complain about unable to hatch eggs and it was the person's fault. One person I met at fair asked how did I get peafowl eggs to hatch and they couldn't. The person kept the incubator at 80 degrees! I told him you need 100 degrees and he said I didn't know anything about hatching eggs and this was the display case I had at the fair. It has a picture of the 4 peachicks I hatched and the 4 peachicks my hen hatched out.

 

[NateinFL]

How do you package them? I would prefer to just have the peachicks though they would be more expensive depending on the variety than hatching eggs.

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Agreed! There's an ad on Ebay right now (and I'm aware they could be a member on here, who knows), but they wrote under the description, "Those believing they should get a hatch need to buy peachicks locally." Seriously??? I'd rather donate the money to charity rather than throw it to the wind.

 

[EyeKeyYou]

Agreed! There's an ad on Ebay right now (and I'm aware they could be a member on here, who knows), but they wrote under the description, "Those believing they should get a hatch need to buy peachicks locally." Seriously??? I'd rather donate the money to charity rather than throw it to the wind.

With this heat you are absolutely right. Viability of an egg drops to 3days as soon as you approach 80 deg. If you must buy on ebay I have a simple equation. Buy on May to first two weeks of June. Eggs on sale should be less than half the number of laying hens. 3yr old or older breeders. Do not buy from same state twice unless you have had good hatch rates from there. (Average I hatch 70% from KY,FL and 5% from OH something in transit between that and MS). Have eggs shipped to PO box (less handling and air conditioned). Doing this I get 40% to hatch over multiple purchases. (Usually it's either 80% or 20% on 5 egg shipments). Shop. If I buy eggs with shipping for $11 this ends up costing me $28 per chick and if it is not available locally I think it is good. Same rules as casinos expect to lose everything.