Ebay Eggs

[SilkieChickenLover336]

Im pretty sure this goes under this topic.

Do you guys buy your hatching eggs from Ebay? I usually do because i don't have a rooster! What are your thoughts on this? From my opinion I think its so so. I have had some really bad eggs. For example: I bought $60 Serama eggs. I was really excited because it was my first hatching Seramas! Usually if the seller gives me some extras ill crack one open and see if ill have luck (If i have a fertile spot then I have luck. If I don't then I don't have luck) Well this egg didn't have a fertile spot. Ok so incubate the eggs for 10 days. Then I candle them. All but 1 were duds. I kept the one egg in there. It was a dud too when I candled it on day 15. But on the other side i have had 100% hatches. What is your experience with Ebay? (I couldnt find a thread on ebay eggs so i decided to make one!) Any tips you have to share with fellow bycers?​

SCL336​

 

[minpinmama]

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

 

[SilkieChickenLover336]

how many eggs did you receive?

 

[sbucciarel]

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

 

[Moonkit]

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!

 

[teckkev]

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

 

[LilMissChz]

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.

 

[SilkieChickenLover336]

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.

definitely the Postal service plays a big part! They seen so much boxes I don't think they even read them anymore. I have had one box come to me with 85% of the eggs exploded! It was also the sellers fault because he just put eggs in a box with packing peanuts. I paid $25 for 12 lavender silkie eggs. I got a refund and more eggs. This time they were wrapped in paper towels and foam and around them were packing peanuts. He claimed his wife made the box. YEEAAAA okkkk

 

[jamesbwood]

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

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

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.