Egg Shipping Methods

[roche477]

Anyone have a surefire method for shipping hatching eggs? I read the eggbid way and it sounds and looks good, which is using about 12" of bubble wrap that extends a couple inches past each end of egg for each egg. They then say to roll the egg up in the bubble wrap and tape securely. I personally would put tape across the ends to keep the eggs from rolling out of the wrap. They then say to place them a certain way in a certain priority mail box and then secure for shipping. Anyone have any ideas on this?

 

[giasmom]

My eggs I recieved from a very sweet BYC'er wew individually wrapped in bubble wrap then taped, Then they were put in a styrofoam egg carton then taped. Then they were put in a priority mailing box surrounded by packing peanuts. All arrived in GREAT shape. No cracks, no Breaks ! Hope this helps !

 

[FlashPointFarm]

Check out Dipsey Doodle Doo's BYC page. Her method is great. I ship that way and have not heard of any eggs breaking, even the air sacs are still in tact in some cases!

 

[pamperedpoultry]

There are many many many ways to package eggs. I've shipped them a bunch of different ways.

If I'm sending a 6+ batch, I normaly wrap each egg individually in bubble wrap, sometimes i tape the ends sometimes I dont. surround them in newspaper in a #4 box and send them on their way.

If I'm sending a 12+ batch I will either wrap them individually and put them in a #7 box surrounded by newspaper, Or this way which I've found to work real well. wrap the eggs in bubble wrap, newspaper, or faom, and put them into an egg carton, wrap the egg carton in bubble wrap, slip it down into the priority mail shoe box, surround by newspaper and your done.

Hope this helps

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

We package ours like this

2 full sheets( 12 inches square) of large bubble wrap on the bottom of the box
layer of packing peanuts
Each egg wrapped in a full sheet of small bubble wrap - placed in box small end down
packing peanuts packed tightly between the eggs and the box all around
layer of packing peanuts
2 full sheets of large bubble wrap on top

The box is packed just full enough that you have to hold down the top to tape it shut, also it's tight enough so the eggs can't shift in the box

It's very rare we get any reports of broken or cracked eggs

Steve in NC

 

[IggiMom]

Well, when you get your eggs, I recommend an egg sniffing dog.

I unwrapped a number of eggs from Kngmt yesterday and left the box with all the shredded paper on the floor.

When Huckleberry, one of my little Greyhounds came wandering in, (I am pretty good at understanding Dog) he said, "Mom, there's another egg in there."

I said, no no, I took them all out. He insisted.

So I looked, and sure enough, I had missed one! Boy do I feel dumb. Those eggs were wrapped really well.

This is a fairly cool room, so I just put it in the incubator with the others, and hope it hatches anyway.

Catherine

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

I wrap them like this.