Ebay Eggs

I've gotten duds and also some nice hatches out of ebay eggs.
Have Swedish Flower Hen chicks hatching now, so far have 6.

 

So glad to hear it's not all bad on Ebay. Just ordered some eggs and they're on the way.

 

I had 4/8 hatch under a broody hen out of e-bay eggs. The ones I currently have under broody's were all locally bought. Still hoping for the hatching gods to smile again though!

 

I bought eggs 1 time on ebay and it was local.. $2.50 for 24 Leghorn eggs I was the only bid. Sad part is, I never seen the seller on Ebay again Eggs were fertile.

Kevin

 

I got my eggs off of a New Hampshire Farmer on eBay and had 50% success. Since I didn't want a lot of chickens, the 6 chicks I hatched were just fine with me. Only 1 arrived scrambled in it's shell. 2 later quit and upon hatching 3 failed to hatch. I did NOT open them to see what went wrong because I couldn't handle the heartache of seeing dead chicks unnecessarily. But it was probably my error. Had I not been a novice hatcher, I may have had a nearly 75% success rate.

One of my opinions of eBay buying is, the delivery of eggs, ie: postal service, UPS, etc. plays a big part in your hatch. That is given the fact that you are receiving fertile eggs. If I had it to do over again, I'd buy my eggs from the same person again. I only paid $2 for 10 eggs, got 2 extras and 6 hatched. I'm happy with my results.

 

I've noticed that at least some of the people that sell here are they same people that sell on eBay and other places as well. Sometimes eBay has lower prices.

I think a lot of the success or failure has to do with what happens in transit, and not the platform the sale is made on.

James

 

I bought ebay eggs once. The first batch had a 0 hatch that was incubator issues. But the seller contacted me on day 21 to ask how the hatch went, when I said nothing hatched and told why I was offered a dozen new eggs for price of shipping. I of course took the offer and then had 6 successfully hatch out of that. all of them were fertile, they all were active on day 18 in their eggs. They hatched day 22, 7 pipped but only 6 fully hatched.
with those two experiences I decided to give up on that. Now I'm thinking about trying the store bought free range eggs. I've read somewhere that people have successfully hatched them. And I figure I can get those for $2 a dozen. So if i buy 2 dozen and after a week there is nothing going on inside I can feed them to the dogs. I think it's worth a try for the price.