Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[chickenbelle]

I received two boxes of eggs today. One was from DMRippy, the other from Dick Horstman. I really should have taken pictures so you could share in the humor, but the eggs from Horstman Poultry were in a standard egg carton and wrapped in newspaper. Some broken.

Donna's eggs--were packed like Fort Knox--bubble wrapped, taped together in rows in the correct position, padded between rows with styrofoam, packed with newspaper and styrofoam!

I just stood staring at the differences in packing...laughing my head off.

It is obvious who puts forth effort to make sure their eggs arrive intact.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Thanks guys!

Brandy i just sent you a PM

It looks good, so glad you liked her work as much as we do.


This is our full version logo (I have a bunch of versions lol)

if they are SQ call duck eggs I will warn you that they are extremely hard to hatch, often need help. Their bills are too short to reach the shell for proper pipping and leaves them wanting to hatch but incapable of getting it done. Just be ready to watch them closely, and help slowly once in lockdown
I may be PMing you. I think they are SQ

of course the first ducks I try to hatch are the HARDEST

I had multiple SQ successful hatches (lots of heart ache too though) so if I can be of help I will try.

 

[Ridge Farm]

Just got SFH eggs from Peggy-Sue and they look great. Fabulous packing!

 

[madamwlf]

I just got my second egg!!!

And this one wasn't frozen!! Me thinks it will be going into the incubator and I need to make this lady a nest box!

 

[madamwlf]

I received two boxes of eggs today. One was from DMRippy, the other from Dick Horstman. I really should have taken pictures so you could share in the humor, but the eggs from Horstman Poultry were in a standard egg carton and wrapped in newspaper. Some broken.

Donna's eggs--were packed like Fort Knox--bubble wrapped, taped together in rows in the correct position, padded between rows with styrofoam, packed with newspaper and styrofoam!

I just stood staring at the differences in packing...laughing my head off.

It is obvious who puts forth effort to make sure their eggs arrive intact.

I would say that's surprising since so many people talk highly of Dick Horstman.

 

[aceschix]

My first hatch of the year started yesterday. Look at the cheak-ums on those Ams!

 

[madamwlf]

My first hatch of the year started yesterday.
Look at the cheak-ums on those Ams!

Oh goodness, adorable!

 

[corancher]

I received two boxes of eggs today. One was from DMRippy, the other from Dick Horstman. I really should have taken pictures so you could share in the humor, but the eggs from Horstman Poultry were in a standard egg carton and wrapped in newspaper. Some broken.

Donna's eggs--were packed like Fort Knox--bubble wrapped, taped together in rows in the correct position, padded between rows with styrofoam, packed with newspaper and styrofoam!

I just stood staring at the differences in packing...laughing my head off.

It is obvious who puts forth effort to make sure their eggs arrive intact.

I remember mine from Dick last year was packed the same. I hatched one chick from those eggs.

 

[Lilwanis]

Seeing the pics of Zeke has sent me on a trip down memory lane. I worked in a pet store when I was in high school. The owners raised mullacan (sp?) cockatoos. They were such sweet, needy birds. I never bought one because the other thing I saw a lot of was people getting sick of whatever animal and selling them back to the pet store. These poor birds mate for life and it is so devastating to them to loose their mate. We had a five year old blue and gold macaw there. I worked a lot with him to rehabilitate him. The previous owners brought I. A sick, skinny, mean bird. After a few months, he would let me, and no one else hold him. With a little more time, the other sales reps could hold him if I got him out of his cage. The people who bought him, bought a bird that was cuddly (as cuddly as a macaw can be), sweet, and healthy. I had wanted to buy him so bad! But seeing how heartbroken he was and how hard it was for him to recover, I knew as a teenager that I did not have the ability to commit to him for 40-50 years. I also fell in love with a Goffins cockatoo that I named GoGo because he liked to dance. I didn't buy him either for the same reason. I really got angry at people at that job...overbred dogs, snakes that were too big, reptiles that lost limbs because the owners didn't bother to take care of them. There were a lot of good people and owners there too, I just remember the bad ones more vividly.

As for city people moving to the country...I will be one some day. Currently I live within walking distance of downtown Salt Lake City. Until a school was built in the front yard and we ended up with a parking lot for a driveway, I think we might have been the only house in the city that was on a dirt road. I am sure that there is an interesting history about how this house managed to stay here for so long, but the history is lost.

 

[Lilwanis]

I have a question...what do you do when your birds get muddy? Mine are a muddy mess now that the snow is melting. There run is bad and I am not sure what to do to get it cleaned and less muddy...