Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[CelticOaksFarm]

Okay, I have eggs that need to be sent today, and I have not heard from several people I PMed.
If Rachael or I owe you eggs, I have these I can send NOW, but I need to know in the next 1/2 hour-otherwise, I will miss the Post office.

13 Cream Legbar
13 Hedemora

30 Tolbunt

You could always just pull their addresses of the spreadsheet and get them shipped out and PM DC# after the fact too if they arent responding to PMs this morning

 

[tdhenson86]

Well, I have some bad news. I've had some major issues with my chickens lately. I've thought long and hard about this. As soon as the chickens I have now have lived full lives, I will not be getting anymore. On my last hatches from shipped eggs, I got one chick out of over three dozen eggs and this one was SUPPOSED to be a Rhodebar, but it is yellow with two black spots. I had a great hatch out of my own pilgrim goose eggs, so I know it's not that. It just has something to do with shipped eggs that don't do well for me. Then, a few nights ago, a raccoon literally ate a hole through our fencing and killed every single Rhodebar I bought from madamwlf and then last night something ate through the brooder at the other end of our property and killed some of my chicks from CPL. I'm just done. We've killed at least 40-50 raccoons and possums in the last two years and they still kill everything. Nature wins this one. Thanks to all of you for being so supportive! Once my spring claims come in and the hatches are done, I will not be getting anymore chickens. I'll fulfill the orders I have out, but then I'm done.

 

[cjwaldon]

Well, I have some bad news. I've had some major issues with my chickens lately. I've thought long and hard about this. As soon as the chickens I have now have lived full lives, I will not be getting anymore. On my last hatches from shipped eggs, I got one chick out of over three dozen eggs and this one was SUPPOSED to be a Rhodebar, but it is yellow with two black spots. I had a great hatch out of my own pilgrim goose eggs, so I know it's not that. It just has something to do with shipped eggs that don't do well for me. Then, a few nights ago, a raccoon literally ate a hole through our fencing and killed every single Rhodebar I bought from madamwlf and then last night something ate through the brooder at the other end of our property and killed some of my chicks from CPL. I'm just done. We've killed at least 40-50 raccoons and possums in the last two years and they still kill everything. Nature wins this one. Thanks to all of you for being so supportive! Once my spring claims come in and the hatches are done, I will not be getting anymore chickens. I'll fulfill the orders I have out, but then I'm done.

Noooo!!!!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

TD so sorry to hear of the predator issues, never easy dealing with them.



Egg laying updates:

SFH girls have graced us with eggs again (still pullet sized) but at least they are laying finally.
The Bantam Columbian Cochin started laying this week! Fertility testing now and then will fill eggs swaps.

Looks like we are about 4-6 weeks out on the other Cochins and B. Choc Orps.

The Rhodebars and Bresse are about the same age,

summer eggs

Thanks to Madam we have new CCL roos growing out for our two pullets

The LLO's are laying, but we will not be swapping these (atleast until fall, but likely 2014) due to the loss of a hen thanks to the USPS before they ever got here.


All duck breeds are laying

 

[ProfTi]

I am still looking for Cayugas if anyone has them and wants to swap for either swap page or PP, please let me know. I am packing up 10 treat boxes today!!!!! Let me know any last requests!!!!!

 

[GableBabble]

Well, I have some bad news. I've had some major issues with my chickens lately. I've thought long and hard about this. As soon as the chickens I have now have lived full lives, I will not be getting anymore. On my last hatches from shipped eggs, I got one chick out of over three dozen eggs and this one was SUPPOSED to be a Rhodebar, but it is yellow with two black spots. I had a great hatch out of my own pilgrim goose eggs, so I know it's not that. It just has something to do with shipped eggs that don't do well for me. Then, a few nights ago, a raccoon literally ate a hole through our fencing and killed every single Rhodebar I bought from madamwlf and then last night something ate through the brooder at the other end of our property and killed some of my chicks from CPL. I'm just done. We've killed at least 40-50 raccoons and possums in the last two years and they still kill everything. Nature wins this one. Thanks to all of you for being so supportive! Once my spring claims come in and the hatches are done, I will not be getting anymore chickens. I'll fulfill the orders I have out, but then I'm done.

I'm sorry :O(

Gabble so sorry, It makes me mad when I have things like that happen.

Yep. Loss of lives b/c of something so stupid kills me.

Of course I seem to be having a bad day, so I'll beat myself up for a while over it.

TD so sorry to hear of the predator issues, never easy dealing with them.



Egg laying updates:

SFH girls have graced us with eggs again (still pullet sized) but at least they are laying finally.
The Bantam Columbian Cochin started laying this week! Fertility testing now and then will fill eggs swaps.

Looks like we are about 4-6 weeks out on the other Cochins and B. Choc Orps.

The Rhodebars and Bresse are about the same age,

summer eggs

Thanks to Madam we have new CCL roos growing out for our two pullets

The LLO's are laying, but we will not be swapping these (atleast until fall, but likely 2014) due to the loss of a hen thanks to the USPS before they ever got here.


All duck breeds are laying

CCB's

 

[caj1985]

Well, I have some bad news. I've had some major issues with my chickens lately. I've thought long and hard about this. As soon as the chickens I have now have lived full lives, I will not be getting anymore. On my last hatches from shipped eggs, I got one chick out of over three dozen eggs and this one was SUPPOSED to be a Rhodebar, but it is yellow with two black spots. I had a great hatch out of my own pilgrim goose eggs, so I know it's not that. It just has something to do with shipped eggs that don't do well for me. Then, a few nights ago, a raccoon literally ate a hole through our fencing and killed every single Rhodebar I bought from madamwlf and then last night something ate through the brooder at the other end of our property and killed some of my chicks from CPL. I'm just done. We've killed at least 40-50 raccoons and possums in the last two years and they still kill everything. Nature wins this one. Thanks to all of you for being so supportive! Once my spring claims come in and the hatches are done, I will not be getting anymore chickens. I'll fulfill the orders I have out, but then I'm done.

I'm so sorry that you have had so many predator issues. Have you thought about getting a livestock guardian dog? I just hate to see someone give up something they love even though you have definitely had enough cause to call it quits. I completely understand about the shipped eggs issues. I think since January (before that they were hatching fine) I have only actually had 10 shipped eggs hatch. Most of mine have been either completely clear or develop and then not manage to make it out.

 

[ProfTi]

I guess I have been lucky with shipped eggs..... I have been getting about 40-50% hatch rates on most things. I know my incubating is probably the same everyone else's, mine probably not even as good as most of yours, so I wonder what accounts for the differences? Maybe if we could figure it out, we could figure out how to improve the odds for everyone.

1. I am in MN, which is further from most of you than you are from each other. So, it cannot be distance traveled.
2. It could be the MN sorting, but why? Don't they go through sorting on both ends? Then, that eliminates sorting. Hatch are equally good on my shipped eggs as my received.
3. It could be that our trucks and facilities in MN are heated.
4. It could be that the eggs are colder, because the temperature outside is colder.

Any thoughts? I don't believe our postal workers are significantly superior to any other place and I use all the same shippers as everyone else, so I would think it has to be a temperature thing or something in how they are shipped. I am curious what the hatch rates will be in Alaska. Maybe that will give us some insight on temperature. What about you all from WI, what are you hatch rates?

 

[Bettacreek]

This time of year is awful for hatching. I've been considering myself lucky to get 1 chick per shipment. Of course, before January, I was getting pretty good rates, including 100% hatch from a shipped serama batch.

 

[Sahwithchicks]

Tim, I am so sorry to hear that. I really feel for you. I lost almost an entire flock of bantie Cochins last fall to coons, and still loose one every once in a whole. I had something take a splash silkied am out of a rabbit type coop. Like, it's a raised 5 stall coop with 1/2 inch hardware cloth all over it.
I am sorry you lost some expensive birds. CPL owes me 6 CCL chicks, I can have her send them to you. It won't replace all you lost, but its a start!