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What's called a "detached" air cell, is really membrane that ruptured where the air cell would be. The air pocket becomes a free-floating bubble. Those are pretty easy to spot when you candle, you'll clearly see a bubble moving around when you tip the egg. Weird shaped air cells, (caused by getting bounced around so much that the membrane pulls away from the shell around the air cell, but doesn't rupture) are a little harder to see. They often have an amoeba-like shape, or the air cell may be elongated down one side. I just recently finally figured out how to find the normal air cells when I candle. If you hold the egg sideways, with to light shining through the large end from one side, and slowly rotate the egg, you should be able to spot the air cell, usually. On green eggs, or darker eggs, and sometimes even lighter eggs with a good, strong shell, it can be really difficult to see the air cells. The damaged ones show up more easily. So if you can't find the air cell at all, it's probably normal.

What did Dipsy turn inside out? The box? And how? Open it up and re-tape it?

That's a bummer about the neg reviews. You never know what somebody might take it in the heads to get upset about. Especially if they don't know how any of this works in the first place. Seems like the more clueless somebody is, the more likely they are to complain about perfectly good eggs.
 
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Yeah, she reopened it and retaped it. I've been using the large PM boxes, but maybe smaller is better and the eggs move around too much in a big box? I hate to double box them, the shipping is already ridiculous on eggs, LOL Thats why I may try the smaller box to save a bit on the shipping so the shipping actually covers my cost. Duh.

Well, if he had asked before hand I would have said they were a variety of colors, even though it says so in the auction. Mine were not any greener than the ones I just got, so IDK what his problem was. Had he asked, I would have said I selected for things other than egg color, that egg laying ability, temperment and general hardiness should come before color, since what good is a chicken that lays a teeny egg occasionally and drops dead if ya look at it funny, but the egg color is great?
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Plus he had an issue with the way I packed them apparently, and I pack mine like everyone else does it seems! I really like when they cut down the cardboard and use it on the inside to protect the eggs, but that just adds sooo much weight to the box!
 
I have gotten eggs from a few sellers on BYC, and not had any problems except from one shipment. I won't say who it was, but I will say how they packed. Simply in clear plastic egg cartons, with nothing around the eggs themselves. They put bubble wrap around the cartons though. When the box arrived at my door, it had yolk leaking out of the box. Some were broke, and most of the rest had broken air cells. All I got from the seller was an oh well.

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I would take bubble wrap anyday over that way of packing.
 
I'm trying to remember to ask sellers for details of how they pack the eggs. If they don't pack in a way I feel will protect the eggs, I won't buy from them. I didn't ask on my first few orders, and regretted it a couple of times.
 
Ouch, Poor eggies!
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I also got the eggs in an egg carton bubble wrapped thing too. I do believe they were wrapped in paper towels. Someone explained better than I that even though they look secure, they can do a lot of shifting in the package and knock against one another. I think two of them shipped that way were broken, I did have one hatch, 5 or so that didn't, but that was not the sellers fault, I stink at incubating!

I asked at the post office, and it doesn't matter what we write on the box, it still goes down the conveyor belt, drops I forget how many feet with other heavier boxes. Its a wonder anything makes it here at all!

Dipsy did have hers labeled with labels and all kinds of instructions (Do not leave in sun, do not expose to cold, etc) Seemed to work, the post office lady made sure that box was carefully under the overhang under something! The other box I got this week? Hung on the mailbox in the sun.
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I used to pack and ship stuff for a living, so I probably overpack!

The guy emailed me back and basically said he was "teaching me a lesson"
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Nice, huh, destroy my reputation because you can't read an auction description?

My response was to refund his $$ and tell him to destroy the remaining eggs, since he was obviously not going to like them, even went so far as to say they were probably Barred Rock eggs! I figure he would hatch them, and not like the color of their legs, or muffs or some other nit picky thing and then do a claim with Paypal that send my bank account into overdraft and cost me more hassle.

I asked my son what color the eggs were, he of course tells me they ARE green! I said, no that ones blue, those are blue/green and that one is olive green...
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I've bought Welsummer Eggs three times, all three times the eggs have been different colors/sizes.
 
I have noticed that if you write fragile & do not insure then it is certain to be broken But in you insure it then they are delivered much nicer. I just shipped withe each egg wrapped in bubble wrap & packed in shredded paper but one was still broken when it got there. The person receiving it was not able to tell me the cause though. Only thing I can thing of is maybe the egg got to close to the box & when they through it maybe.

What do you think about misting some water in the package to keep the moisture yup? Has anyone tried this is it worth trying?
 
I have had several shipped to me this spring and have had mostly terrible results.

The first one was packed good in "foam bricks" with holes for the eggs and padded with foam all the way. One out of nine developed, none were broke or injured. Box was clearly marked fragile, live eggs, etc. Large priority box.

The next one was a dozen ( they sent extras ) packed in newspaper around cartons and lots of the packing peanuts. 4 of these hatched out fine, one was cracked, it was marked eggs on the box. Medium Priority Box.


Another was button quail eggs, came in an unmarked box, each egg wrapped in paper towel, then packed with wood shavings. Three were broken out of appx 40, 8 hatched fine. Small box the size of a brick.

Another was a "shoe box" size, a carton inside of tons of very, very finely shredded paper. Very heavy ( makes the drop worse... ) bought twelve, no extras sent, three were cracked on arrival, the rest no good when candled. Box was marked fragile, but not eggs.

Overall I've spent over $100 and gotten 5 live chicks... makes me wonder if it's even worth it to have eggs shipped.
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The chicks are 1 silver laced cochin bantam, and 4 columbian cochin bantams, not exactly what I'd call a $20 a bird run there.

I think this is a great thread because packing is a HUGE part of sending eggs.
 
Well I thought I was doing a good job wrapping the eggs I was sending...

I line the bottom of the box, with whatever I have on hand. Sometimes it is egg cartons turned to create a cushion. Then I wrap each egg in bubble wrap, and then put 8-10 eggs together and wrap all that in bubble wrap. Place securely in the box, then cover with packing material. I always send extras...good thing because the last 3 batches I have had about 1/3 of the eggs broken, and the boxes look fine.
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I was told that I should add more packing material...so I will try that next time.

I was using the priority labels to tape the bubble wrap until I figured out how horrible it was to remove, and made the bubble wrap unfit to reuse.

I am glad for this thread....I hate to hear that someone received broken eggs from me.
 
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I haven't read the whole thread yet, but from my experiences, this could be a part of the problem. I have shipped eggs from KY to:
WA, AZ, NY barely 2 days
IN and OH 2 long days (I was starting to think they wouldn't make it when they were finally delivered)
TX 24.5 HOURS
AR 5 days... sorry ma'am, that is a truck destination from here, we don't know why they weren't there by Tuesday or where they are, since no one has scanned their conf. number, give us another day and hopefully we'll find them....

It seems at least where I am shipping from, the ones that go by plane make it fast, and the truck ones might as well walk on their own. I've gotten eggs from CA faster than from IN, too.
 
Interesting. I've had two rounds shipped to me in TN.
Round one came from Georgia. Shipper said it left on Monday. I got it on Friday.
Round two came from Washington State. It too was shipped on a Monday. I got it on Wednesday.

Both packages were in Priority boxes. All of the eggs in both packages were bubble wrapped.

Round one sent 8 eggs. Two hatched.
Round two sent 16 eggs. Five hatched alive. Another two died from a heat surge on day 21 in the incubator. They were fully developed, but died in the shell. The other 9 eggs didn't develop.

I had hesitated about having eggs shipped all the way across the country thinking that it would be harder on the eggs. Interesting that it might be the other way around.
 

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