it's hard to deal with! Especially since the Marans were the breed my 10yo daughter chose to hatch for homeschool. She researched and looked at a ton of different breeds and kept going back to them. I found a breeder and ordered knowing the hatch rate would be lower, they did an awesome job packaging and put in a heat pack but it was just too long of a trip and too rough. She has a couple tears every time I remove an egg. 11 more days though and I can see chicks moving in a few eggs so I'm trying to stay positive that she'll have 1 or 2 hatch!