Just an update: Lost all open cases (there was a total of three orders) against seller on Ebay. No refund or replacement eggs.
Hundreds of dollars spent on those eggs. My boyfriend and I are both in our late twenties, both attending college full-time and working full-time. This is something we planned and had been looking forward to for months. He invested more money into those eggs than I did, but I am still pretty disappointed. Neither one of us needed a "perfect" bird. Honestly, I still would have been okay with some light toes, or maybe a small splash here and there... but now we pretty much have Black Copper Maran-looking chicks...just not what we were expecting. We were attracted to the breed for having the black skin, black feathers, etc. Like a Gothic chicken, I would joking say. I just thought they were cool.
Be careful who you buy eggs from. Established breeders or trusted BYC members ONLY...
A huge thank you to Maranfarmer563 for selling me the most perfect Ayam Cemani egg. All the way from PA to WA State, no detached air cells that I could see...excellent packaging. Comparing them to past pictures, the differences are obvious. I don't see how a purebred Greenfire Ayam Cemani can lay a jumo brown egg... The ones I recently received are small, uniform shape, pale ivory in color. Beautiful.
The hatch is on me, so wish me luck... hopefully I'll have at least a few Ayam Cemanis running around in three weeks. My boyfriend has NO idea what these "secret eggs" are..... ^_^ It' a surprisel
