Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[babymakes6]

Morning all


They owe a refund on standard express mail. If you read all of the rules on live birds it doesnt cover shipping being late. Yes many local offices will give refunds because they dont know the rules of shipping live birds. Just like they dont know they are suppose to except live bird boxes if they temps are 35 or under in the sending and receiving location, they arent suppose to accept boxes if the temps are 85 or over in the sending and receiving locations. USPS use to be very good about shipping and refunds for everything. Then they stopped accepting lives at all, and thanks to Horizon boxes they ship them now for us.

There are some locations in the country you cant ship lives to at all. Most local PO offices dont know this, will let you pay the money and drp the box off. Then the box leaves, get rerouted back at the hub and you get a call to pick them back up.

Dry ice on a flight will bump birds as it kills them if they are on the flight.

The scan updates dont happen unless the location actually hangs the scanner gun back up. I know of many locations who dont scan, or who do and dont hang the scan guns back up for hours if not days.

fedex is the carrier by contract who hauls the live bird boxes most often.

Have to go let everyone out, but will pull and paste the rules from USPS today on live shipping. It doesnt mean the local offices wont give refunds or would ever tell you cant ship on any given day since most of them dont have a clue what the regs are concerning it.

------------side note------------------its cold outside here today after being in the 80's for 10 days---------morning chores are done----------

I cant ship live birds if the mail has to go through St Louis (all of MO is a PIA really) or Memphis. It gets rejected here at our hub and sent back. Both are major dry ice receivers and there arent any safe flights for birds. Sadly not one person at my local office knew this and it took three boxes being sent back before I found out why. there are other zip codes where there is no air service also so no live bird shipments. Now I have to call my hub for every single live bird box, give them the zip and go over the flight for approval before ever sending them. Chattanooga is another that gives me fits, but I have found ways around it and can re-route and then they are driven to a PO as close as possible for the buyers to then drive to and pick up from.

During the height of our spring we will be shipping out Mon, Tues, Wed and Thurs (for two day travel boxes) 2-5 boxes daily of birds plus boxes of eggs.

We had to sit down and write a plan of action last year with our local PO and hub after we filed 5 complaints against the hub. Returned boxes that should have shipped through (they claimed the box wasnt right) It took me printing the regs, the rules for the boxes and sitting on the phone for 3 days to get it worked out.

I believe my mail comes through Memphis, how will that work?

caj..........glad to hear they arrived this morning! nice your PO called you as well.


Someone awhile ago asked if I would write a shipping article. Here is the first draft https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/shipping-live-birds-the-basics-ins-and-outs

I plan to add photos of how we set boxes up to it for those who like to see as well as read. ( I am a visual learner myself) Let me know if it reads well, isnt clear, ect please.

Very informative! Thank you!

Is Mrs. Whatsit a legbar or sfh maybe. looks like she is going to be crested

Not a Legbar.

So I put 2 of my CCL eggs and 8 of Bantam Chocolate Wyandotte eggs into lockdown. Both CCL have hatched. Both girls!!!!

3 of the wyandottes have hatched and the other 5 have pipped!!!

Did I mention I was sent 8 wyandotte eggs??? The same 8 that are in lockdown and pipped and hatching!!! Awesome eggs!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay for a perfect hatch! (including two girls!)

been on the run all day. (or so it seems)

Started drawing up plans for the new breeder house for the LF chickens. I think we have a game plan finally.

We have chocolate bantam orps hatching right now. Sooooooooooooooooo cute!

will share pictures this weekend. I think I would like a fun trio or quad of cochins to house next to the bantam choc orps. So who has em, and whats a cool/fun color.



Our Guinea fowl flock are ALL being butchered this weekend. They went on a rampage and killed 2 ducklings, a gosling

and tried to get a rooster too. Naughty, nasty birds! I call them the farm mafia, and after today they are all doomed to OFF WITH THEIR HEADS.

You need MF cochins or gold laced cochins. They both are pretty!

Or Blue!

 

[Herducks]

I love my silkie chicks! I wonder what color the little grey one will be when he grows up!

 

[madamwlf]

Good morning all!!! Busy day ahead of me!!!!



If anyone needs 2 Paint Silkie Roosters PM me. All I ask is you pay shipping. You must take both. Better to ship them together!!!

 

[madamwlf]

I love my silkie chicks! I wonder what color the little grey one will be when he grows up!

Adorable. I would say it looks like a blue.

 

[babymakes6]

Beautiful blue baby!

 

[babymakes6]

Celtic-LOVE your idea for the round pens! I would love to do that here as well.

Also, thanks for the suggestion. I think we will have Biscuits and Sausage Gravy for breakfast!

 

[Herducks]

I would love a blue! I hatched one other grey chick and it ended up: I wish it had not been a roo.

 

[nakanich]

Pp received from nakanich

Can I be cleared pretty please?

 

[kraftyladies]

Can I be cleared pretty please?

cleared!

 

[NotAFarm]

I can't believe the silkies and Cayugas are still up on the swap! I wish spring would hurry up and get here........