Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[chiqita]

Happy Birthday!e

I DID get a refund from the lady who shipped me the horribly packed eggs.  I tried not to sound ugly, but I did tell her that it was a packing problem and her response to me was that she receives eggs from Duane Urch all the time packed the same way!  Ughhhhh!  So, she messaged me and said she had refunded my money.  I tried to message back to say thank you and I hoped she had better luck packing in the future, but she had blocked me.  Ah well.  Good riddance.

Now I have gold Neck D'uccle birds in the mail lost somewhere between Georgia and Louisiana.  Apparently the USPS hasn't seen them since Tuesday when they were scanned in.  I can't intervene and drive to Shreveport like I normally would since even Shreveport has no idea where they are.  They better be here by morning and ALIVE!!   She added some treats so maybe they'll make it.

I received some SQ Porcelain D'uccles in yesterday.  Two pair.  Hubby is in love.  Mr. Macho Redneck sat in the run with them in his lap for half the evening talking to them.  LOL 

We joke on the nor cal thread that the older famous breeders all have crappy shipping and that is why shipped eggs have such a bad rap. I bet she does get eggs wrapped in paper towels from other breeders, lol.

Happy Birthday to the birthday folks! SAH....My youngest child will be 28 later this year. I could be your mom!

I've only been a part of this group since last November. We have been complaining about lost packages of eggs, chicks and older birds since then. For those of you who have been shipping a while...is this new? or is this normal? I'd like to be able to ship eggs and chicks and live birds when I get my flock back up, but I'm not sure exactly how much I want to deal with as far as USPS screw-ups and customer anger.

Someone on here mentioned how they hated the specially cut foam packing for eggs. They said that it holds the eggs too tightly, so that the only "give" is inside the egg. The eggs arrive looking good on the outside but scrambled on the inside. This makes sense to me. On the other hand, on a different thread with show birds, they are recommending that packing material. It's confusing.

What I'm doing is photographing all my boxes as I unpack, and keeping records of how the eggs turned out. Then I'll know for sure what I want to copy, as far as packing goes. I think. I've had eggs come in scrambled, come in with rolling air cells, and also come in looking like I just picked them up behind the hen! We'll see how it goes, I guess. I'll probably ask someone to be my guinea pig and send two or even three packages at the same time, all packed differently, and see how they arrive.

It'll be months before I can ship, and look at me, being worried now! Silly.

From being in retail in the past, I will say shipping is shipping. It hasn't gotten worse IMO. If you want safer service use fed ex or ups express next day. They are the services designed for fragile things. 3x more however.

They don't work well for button quail either. Had some shipped with a foam flat, they put them in the box and put another of the same size box in, so it kept it in place... eggs still fell out of the bottom and were rolling around completely unprotected. I still feel that bubble wrap is the best option. I lay mine down even, and still get decent hatch rates. I don't use cartons either.

Button quail eggs are just hard to ship IMO, as well. But MW did a great job of explaining the foam shipping thingie and when its good or bad so I'm wasting my typing here.

Happy birthday to the birthday peeps!

My first ever hatching eggs go into lockdown on Monday. I am not too hopeful on them hatching. I had a temp spike of just under 104. The thermometer didn't read a time for it, so it was brief, that is the only thing that has me still holding out hope for them. It was less than a minute there or it would have charted ( the only thermometer that I had on hand is a high tech one that my DH sells....it's a 400.00 thermometer). The temp has averaged 95 the whole time, so I hope that reading was just a weird fluke. I will know on Wednesday next week.

Did you mean 99 or 95? If it averaged 95 I'd bet you will hatch late.

Autocorrect is not my friend.

 

[Bettacreek]

Buttons actually do well with shipping. I usually get great hatches from shipped buttons.

 

[SusanRenee]

Right! Actually, I meant to post this ages ago -- this was the label on a box from sutillmann, who did a lovely job packing



Not only is it apparently effective, it's cute

That is awesome! I'm soooo going to steal that idea!!!

 

[Snapnzap]

Ugh so I might have figured out why my hatches have been late and funky

I bought a second thermometer and it is saying the temp in my incubator is 95.9 at egg level when the digital on the incubator itself is reading 100. I stuck a human thermometer in the vent at the top and it says 102.7. I tested my new thermometer in the brooder and in my mini incubator and it seems accurate. What do I do? Is it the fan? It is new brinsea 20 advanced.

 

[tazcat70]

This is how AyeUpChuck counts a dozen...
As in, I claimed 2 swaps of 6 eggs each and this is what I recieved today e thank up very much! Those green OEs Are gorgeous. Green is my favorite color, I'm not sure why I haven't breed or bought OEs yet!!

Now tell me, how do I fit literally 100 eggs on a 42 egg turner

Her eggs are awesome too!

 

[Snapnzap]

Right! Actually, I meant to post this ages ago -- this was the label on a box from sutillmann, who did a lovely job packing



Not only is it apparently effective, it's cute

I think unless you get a meany the live thing is effective. I notice when the boxes just say fragile the corners are always dented ( at the least). But when the box says live my PO hands it over the counter very gently like something might leap out at them

 

[cluckitall]

Sah, somehow I missed your earlier post, but the answer to your question is easy -- BUILD ANOTHER INCUBATOR!!!!!

 

[mzstre]

Ugh so I might have figured out why my hatches have been late and funky   I bought a second thermometer and it is saying the temp in my incubator is 95.9 at egg level when the digital on the incubator itself is reading 100.  I stuck a human thermometer in the vent at the top and it says 102.7.  I tested my new thermometer in the brooder and in my mini incubator and it seems accurate.  What do I do?  Is it the fan?  It is new brinsea 20 advanced.  

The human thermometer stuck in the airflow hole of the Brinsea is not accurate. The tip that reads the temp cannot go far enough into the bator and reads the temp of the heat directly at the source. Put a water wiggler in the base and put a thermometer in it. It will take a while to heat all the way through, but it should give you a pretty good reading.

 

[SewChaos]

The last eggs I received, the one marked fragile was in perfect condition, but the one marked embryos was dented and all of the eggs have wonky/loose/detached aircells.

 

[Snapnzap]

The human thermometer stuck in the airflow hole of the Brinsea is not accurate. The tip that reads the temp cannot go far enough into the bator and reads the temp of the heat directly at the source. Put a water wiggler in the base and put a thermometer in it. It will take a while to heat all the way through, but it should give you a pretty good reading.

What is a water wiggler? One of those toys?
And what kind of thermometer?
The one I got the 95.7 reading from was a digital thermometer hydrometer combo and I laid it in the tray and waited an hour