How was your ebay egg hatching process?

[2txmedics]

DO NOT ORDER CUCKOO MARANS, AS HE CALLS THEM RARE EGGS FROM EBAY USER: bixbyguys
OR BY THE REAL NAME OF: BRADLEY LIVENGOOD, ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA...rec'd eggs 12 with all but 4 broken.
Shipped only wrapped in 1/2 of a paper towel and taped.

no padding under the eggs, all eggs laying on each other in the center of the box, and 2sheets of newspaper around the eggs to form a circle.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=215907&p=1 my posting of pics, and here his comment on when I complained:
Dear 2txmedics,

I don't appreciate your 'threats'. As I kindly
told your wife, I have NO CONTROL over the USPS
system. Seeing as how you are 50 years old, you
should be more than old enough to know that it's
ALWAYS a risk when having eggs shipped. The eggs
were in perfect condition when they left my hands.
You will not be getting ANY refund now. Why would
I pay for your shipping out of my pocket??? So
'spread the word', I could care less about a low-
life such as yourself!


- bixbyguys

 

[JessaLynn]

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What a shame

Hard to believe there is people like that.It's always a risk to buy eggs online but doing research about the seller never hurts!

 

[milleryardchx]

soo sorry that sucks. thats not po fault if wrapped like that! i would give not so positive feedback and see if paypal would return funds

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[Chotii]

If I were ordering Maran eggs, I wouldn't have ordered from Bixby what's his name anyway. His eggs were very inconsistent for color, not very dark, one was actually white, and they were really really dirty.

If you buy sight unseen, that's the risk you take. But the pictures he provided would have made me hit the back button even if he wrapped in 14 layers of bubble wrap per egg.

 

[spotsplus]

Out of 70 eggs ordered on ebay (8 different sellers) I ended up with a total of 15 chicks. I had a 75% hatch rate from rare_and_exotic_hatching_eggs-4-u on rare color bantam D'Uccles and got some wonderful babies and colors. I also had a 60% hatch rate on OEG porcelain and barred bantams from renagaderidgefarm. The rest were very poor rate- by second candle at 14 days I was down to 41 eggs. I found about 10 of various problems of dead chicks of different stages that I think were due to too high temp in incubator even though it read within normal limits. One whole batch of columbian Brahma bantams 10+ all were no developments. Only 2 made it past first candle at 7 days on Dutch and no development after. So in the end I got 15 chicks live and healthy. And that was after doing extensive research on each seller so it's a coin toss I think...

 

[IggiMom]

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What is a PIP form?

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

One thing to remember about eggs this time of year is the heat. Fertility goes down in the summer because the birds are stressed from the heat and alot of time the birds have been laying since spring, then you add to that your box of eggs being in the back of a truck, in the sun. Probably way over 100 degrees. Our wallet would love to have some eggs pay the feed bill this time of year but we don't ship in the heat. We stop shipping late June and don't start again until Sept. - ish. Depending on when it cools down some.

Steve in NC