Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[madamwlf]

I asked again this morning for a hatch date and shipping date. My concern is the temperatures. We are already mid-80's here. I can get on paypal later today here at work, but can't do anything with leaving feedback on RBA until I get home this evening.

Here is his response:

I am working on orders as timely as possible. As the ad states ""These Chicks should be shipping around late April to early May. They will be around-2 weeks old at shipment. Please be patient. I ship in the order that the auctions end.""

These are ESTIMATED shipping dates as stated in my disclaimer on my site and as any seller will tell you they may vary. I ordered from a couple of these larger sites and my chicks didn't come for 2 months after the "estimated date".. As far as your order, I estimate they will ship around May 20th. As far as shipping temperatures, You cannot ship chicks on days that are over 90 degrees and the temperature isn't even remotely close to that yet for any lenghth of time. When I ship here, The Postal truck picks them up here at around 4:30 in the evening and I dont take them to the post office until around 4 right before closing so they are there no longer than an hour before the truck gets them. The lady in the post office keeps them by her desk until the truck comes. They will be traveling at night for the most part. Ive rarely had an order that didn't get to its destination by the a.m hours the following morning, when in your area. Meaning they will usually be in the mail less than 18 hours and mostly at night if you pick them up at the post office as soon as they arrive. Also, I don't ship when its going to be much under 50 degrees at night either . I ordered chicks myself this year from one of the "Larger" sellers and I got 9 chick popsickles. I do not ship when I know that there's any risk of putting the chicks in jeopardy.

As far as hatching, I had chicks hatch this weekend, I have chicks hatching in the next few days, and again this weekend and next weekend. My incubators took a hit during the storm and this is my first hatch since then but as or right now, hatching seems to be going ok.. Right now, I am estimating I will ship your chicks around Monday May 20th as long its not to hot or to cold. I am not going to jeopardize the chicks just to get them out a week or so earlier. I will end up just having to ship them again un-necessarily. . Most people appreciate that fact because they don't want to get dead chicks. My opinon when ordering has always been , the older the better. The better chance they have of surviving the trip whether that delays the shipment a week or so is of less consequence to me as long as the chicks are alive when they get to me. Its the nature of the poultry business. As with all sellers, we try to estimate the shipping date as close as possible but as we all know, weather, hatch rates etc can affect shipping dates and thats why all sellers have a disclaimer that says these are estimated dates.. Right now, I dont think Im off by much and I hope to get your chicks to you by that date. Again, thank you for your order and patience and we will do our absolute best to get them to you in good health as timely as possible. If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask.. I'm not trying to delay your order / or put it off, I'm simply shipping in the order received and trying to do it in as timely a way as possible as hatching and weather permits. Sincerely

If the auction said estimated late April early May then I'm not sure there is much you can do. You can ask for a refund if you are worried about the temps but in May the temperatures should still be fairly decent.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

USPS temperature cut off is 85* at the sending and receiving location. We get cut off in May often because of temps. I can sometimes get around it if I drive them to the hub in the evening.

as mentioned above if the auction says april/may you will have to wait it out


No one can predict storms causing outages and the losses that come from it. Also those of us with large operations run Multiple cabinet bators at the same time and a power loss is a huge hit. I have people waiting for goslings from last fall, and they know when they are hatched and sorted they will ship.

 

[RoyalT]

How could you sell my cow?

I understand, I would love a bunch of them someday! Do Scotties come in any other colors besides buff/red? There were 4 at my livestock auction last week-three were black and one was a light cream, almost white. They looked like Scotties except the color, and they only sold for $200-$250 a head. A couple of them had sick-looking eyes, though.

Yes, well- she just ate SO MUCH, dude! 3 yaks' worth of hay per day. Not cool, especially with her not breeding with my bull (dangit!). But that was more his fault than hers. Scotties come in all colors. Barbie is a silver (just dirty lol) which is white with a blue nose. Whites are white with a pink nose, then there are blacks, reds, yellows, duns, grays, brindles, etc. All kinds of fun colors You should get yourself a pair Not the sick ones, though!

 

[RoyalT]

Quote: Reese- sorry about your eggs that's a real downer.

Madam- Yup, that's what I've come to also after so many horrible eBay egg shipments. Oh well!

 

[RoyalT]

Quote: Yeah... I've done that a few times, too! People just don't understand when they aren't educated about livestock in school and/or don't know how to research BEFORE purchasing new animals... Good on ya!

Quote: Holy Moly that's a heap of eggs!! Do you raise other animals? Or is it all birds all the time for you guys? I will say, of all my animals, the chickens are the quickest to pay their own bills and the easiest to manage!

 

[filumene]

Holy Moly that's a heap of eggs!! Do you raise other animals? Or is it all birds all the time for you guys? I will say, of all my animals, the chickens are the quickest to pay their own bills and the easiest to manage!

I agree with you here. I think chickens are awesome for paying for themselves. The rabbits are a close second with how much meat they put on the table in little time. They just are not as fun.

 

[flocksalot]

Yeah... I've done that a few times, too! People just don't understand when they aren't educated about livestock in school and/or don't know how to research BEFORE purchasing new animals... Good on ya!
Holy Moly that's a heap of eggs!! Do you raise other animals? Or is it all birds all the time for you guys? I will say, of all my animals, the chickens are the quickest to pay their own bills and the easiest to manage!

We raise chickens, ducks, geese, of course TURKEYS, and have three horses. I have huge gardens that the ducks and geese are penned into sections at a time in and when I can find a good one I will raise a pig to eat weeds, scraps and then get eaten by us. I freeze a d can most of what we eat. We also sell lots of produce, but what doesn't get sold or used gets consumed by the animals. I plan to add a couple of milk goats and possibly a meat cow in the future.

The chickens pay for feed for all the animals. We raise our own hay though so that cuts costs big time.

 

[flocksalot]

I came in to get a little house cleaning done, but the vacuum just died. Does that mean I'm not supposed to clean today?

It's a dyson too!

Must be saying take a break lady.

 

[chickenbelle]

If the auction said estimated late April early May then I'm not sure there is much you can do. You can ask for a refund if you are worried about the temps but in May the temperatures should still be fairly decent.

USPS temperature cut off is 85* at the sending and receiving location. We get cut off in May often because of temps. I can sometimes get around it if I drive them to the hub in the evening.

as mentioned above if the auction says april/may you will have to wait it out


No one can predict storms causing outages and the losses that come from it. Also those of us with large operations run Multiple cabinet bators at the same time and a power loss is a huge hit. I have people waiting for goslings from last fall, and they know when they are hatched and sorted they will ship.

I agree on giving time to get things going due to the power outage, but May 20th isn't early May. Temps here are already running around 85. Paypal says I cannot request a refund for that type of transaction. The seller is now saying he can ship chicks next week at a week old...but Wednesday is scheduled to be 84* as it is.

I'm not in a good position either way. We drove four hours this weekend to get birds from Mzstre--I put 4 juvie birds in the large shipping box and kept them in the air conditioned cab of our truck. Two hours later on the way back, one of the birds had been pushed to the bottom of the box and overheated from the other three. I rode the rest of the way home with a pullet in my daughter's lap and two cockerels in mine. If I can lose a bird in an air conditioned cab in a shipping box--I'm afraid of what will happen in the back of a mail truck on a two hour ride.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Who is shellie simon ? got unexpected eggs at the post office