Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[tdhenson86]

We have a turkey!!!
Royal Palm x Golden Narragansett

YAY!!!! Congrats!

 

[mzstre]

So. I am a wee bit paranoid and have a bit of OCD about bio security. Maybe this is no big deal, but it makes me nervous. Someone fairly local just posted on a FB group that she is having rare breed hatching eggs mailed to her from other countries "without the red tape", and the cost she's stating is way below the cost for even the import paperwork. :/

Yay for her, I guess, but without proper precaution....what could she be bringing into the country that could affect MY birds? Am I ridiculous for being nervous about it?

 

[tdhenson86]

So. I am a wee bit paranoid and have a bit of OCD about bio security. Maybe this is no big deal, but it makes me nervous. Someone fairly local just posted on a FB group that she is having rare breed hatching eggs mailed to her from other countries "without the red tape", and the cost she's stating is way below the cost for even the import paperwork.

Yay for her, I guess, but without proper precaution....what could she be bringing into the country that could affect MY birds? Am I ridiculous for being nervous about it?

OH MY!!! I sure hope the USDA doesn't use Facebook. She will be in some MAJOR trouble. Fines. Penalties. Possibly jail time. They're serious and don't mess around with stuff like that. NOT a good idea to do that!

 

[tdhenson86]

There is a really nice lady from Michigan on here that I met a few months back. She has pure White Chantecler. She's looking for Ameraucana (spelling?) eggs (not EE). Does anyone have any they'd be willing to trade with her?

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I talked to someone in the UK a few years ago about chocolate orpingtons. They offered to send me eggs and said that they had already shipped to a few people in the US without the proper paperwork. He said they had fairly good hatches too. I didn't get any, but it's sad that people don't care that they could be importing diseases into this country.

 

[Bettacreek]

The USDA doesn't take that stuff lightly. There are some aquarium snails that are illegal to transport over state lines... I know of someone close to here who had two snails shipped across state lines. They confiscated all of her tanks and everything.

 

[ProfTi]

We have a turkey!!!
Royal Palm x Golden Narragansett

Pic made my day....if one of those shows up in the incubator, it will make my week.

 

[GableBabble]

I thought I would just put this here since there were a few who wanted eggs. I had my hubbie pick up my chicks today on his way home. I can't get eggs, and I won't be getting anymore chicks. Long story short, he does not like BYC. Or the people on it. Hubbie said he thought he was going to take the chicks back at one point. He said loud and clear he won't be selling us anymore Leghorns.

 

[ChicwannaB]

Howdy all, got this link tonight from fellow BYCer tdhenson,, is it a place to offer swaps/trades etc??
If so I'd like to offer pure white Canadian Chantecler eggs for Ameraucana or Aruacana eggs, must be the pure blue, no EE's.
My Chantecler came from Greg Oakes Canadian strain in Ontario via Crossroads in Indiana back in 2010 I think, they were originally purchased by Jim A Hall of Hall Family Poultry Farm and then I purchased eggs from Jim. They are a rare breed here and highly suited to COLD winters, which I can attest to as the only chickens that come out on 0 degree days have been the Chante's, while all my others hide in the coop only coming our for a drink from the bucket

They have very tiny cushion combs and wattles so frostbite is NILL. They are beautiful pure white and mine lay white eggs, I say that because someone just told me they'd read Chantecler lay a brown egg. I can't answer why, but mine do lay white.
Anyone in Michigan or elsewhere who'd like to trade??

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

I thought I would just put this here since there were a few who wanted eggs. I had my hubbie pick up my chicks today on his way home. I can't get eggs, and I won't be getting anymore chicks. Long story short, he does not like BYC. Or the people on it. Hubbie said he thought he was going to take the chicks back at one point. He said loud and clear he won't be selling us anymore Leghorns.

Well that is just downright rude! Its the people on BYC that are making chickens a craze in the USA. Hmmmm.... I wonder.....