Ebay Hatching Egg Questions

[ChloeSilkie08]

I don't know if she does silkies though.

Thank you!

 

[Vitore]

I’m new to incubating eggs and this will be my second incubation. I bought eggs off eBay as in London can’t drive to a farm to pick them up during lockdown. Last time I got 1 silkie (2 other eggs were not fertile) and 5 cornish cross out of 6 (1not fertile)
This time I bought 6 more silkie eggs as I wanted friends for my silkie and hopefully I’ll get enough to give a few to my mum.
Along with the silkies I bought 6 bresse eggs on eBay, but look at the picture of what I actually received! What are the two brown eggs? Are they really Bresse? + they are half the size of the bresse eggs

please help.

 

[Mellowmalt]

Hey Vitore,
don't know much about Bresse eggs but google says they do not lay brown eggs.

I did receive a mislabelled egg but the sellers eggs were not very strong anyway so I have changed my criteria for buying on Ebay and this is just my personal observation but it has ended up costing me more than £100 by now so I have decided to avoid male chicken keepers.

That's right, I'm a guy and I believe I look after my chickens well but every time I have used Ebay I have had a different experience, either packaged badly, infertile eggs sent, small eggs from too young birds, too old eggs that were well over a week old and eggs that would hatch with deficiencies + dirty eggs.

Eggs bought from women so far have been fertile, well packed, clean and healthy.

I hate coming to this conclusion and I would not say it is the norm as like I said I wouldn't be doing what I have seen other Ebayers try to get away with on Ebay but it has only been men that have ended up costing me money to the point where if I can I will avoid buying from guys in future now although it can be hard to tell on Ebay sometimes!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Ouch, okay. What I'm hearing is sound like a woman when I sell eggs

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I can think of two possibilities that are better than it just being a scam with random eggs sent. The first, you accidentally got the wrong order. Happens more than you'd think apparently. The other, they didn't have great laying this time and hoped that 2 wrong eggs were better than no eggs or short 2 eggs if they couldn't get a hold of you (might have been typing the wrong contacr info in)