frustrated

[ma2babygurl13]

So I went and ordered eggs... so far out of the first dozen I have 8 developing and another I am questioning, 2 were bloodrings and one never developed they are due on the 20th, so not too bad.... then I had 6 Silkie eggs (These I was SUPER excited about) these are due on the 22nd out of these 6 I have 2 developing

3 were Blood rings and one never developed... then I have 12 Guinea eggs...out of them 6 never developed and I lost another 2 to bloodrings.... so now I am down to 4 of them... Im so frustrated and disappointed that out of 30 eggs I'm now down to less than half! What would have caused SO many blood rings out of them? Shipping? Handling? Bacteria? Bad Luck?

 

[mamanaturale]

shipping is so so so so hard on eggs. i think it just depends on each post office they go thru. my last batch, i ordered from three breeders, one set i hatched 60% and the other two i got none. this batch of eggs, i had 4 different breeders. we aren't quite hatching yet, but one breeder i only got one to develop at all and then it quit on me. another breeder i have 2 developing out of 8. one breeder i have 12 out of 15 developing well and the other breeder is developing 100%. so i would say its definitely not you and might be the way the eggs were packed, but most likely its how the postal service treated them.

 

[Paganbird]

I'd say shipping.
I ordered 6 peafowl eggs (not cheap) and 5 were scrambled in shipping. They came well-packed, none broken, but obviously had experienced some rough handling. The last on started to develop, but I lost it in the 3rd week.
So... of my 6 expensive peafowl eggs... I got a 0% hatch rate.
That's just how it goes sometimes.
Oh, BTW, of the 32 chicken eggs I had set with the pea eggs, 31 hatched - so I know it wasn't the 'bator.