Icelandic Chickens

[Mahonri]

Got my 3rd Icelandic egg today.

I can't eat them, they've got to be incubated but maybe I should open and scramble one just to see if Vindur is getting the job done.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Funny you say that. I have yet to eat an Icelandic egg.

However, I am now collecting them for the refrigerator!

 

[NotAFarm]

Hi Everyone! I'm passing on some info I got from my postmaster......not trying to tell anyone how to do things.........just passing along information......my disclaimer is that I worked for the USPS for almost 15 years as a city carrier and my husband is a 36 year city carrier so I'm just getting that out there...I know how hard some employees work to give the best service possible, I also know there are dredges in every workplace...........this may not be the thread for this but it's one of the only ones I post on and I care about Icelandic eggs getting places safely.

I received three different shipments of eggs the week of May 16. I called my postmaster (town of 2400) and told her I would be expecting three boxes of eggs to arrive, from where and to call me when they arrived, left my work number (I work one block from the Post Office on M, T and W and go to the PO each of those days) and cell number. The first two to arrive were unmarked boxes and when the second one got there, the postmaster asked why they weren't marked fragile if they contained hatching eggs. I told her that many people are afraid they may receive harsher treatment from some employees and choose not to mark them. She told me that unmarked packages for our town are put in large bags and loaded/unloaded that way until reaching the local offices. Packages marked as Fragile get to travel on racks with shelves that keep them from being tossed about. They could still be sent on conveyor belts in large facilities but the jumbling that they would receive would always be less if the box was marked. I said thanks for the information and brought them home. The third package was marked "Fragile! Do Not Stack" on all four sides with large font printered paper. When I went to pick it up, my postmaster remarked that it had a nice ride on a shelf and not in a bag. I thanked her, left and brought the eggs home to set. The last eggs to arrive had only a very short rest before going into the bator because the others were ready to go in. I got more eggs developing from the box marked fragile. This is a VERY unscientific study and what happens in the mailstream to my town may be completely different in others.... I'm just letting you know what my postmaster told me. This is the first and only time I've received shipped eggs. I'd like to hear if anyone else has had experiences like mine.

Seinna, The Other Mary

 

[Happy Chooks]

Interesting Other Mary. I've always marked my egg boxes Fragile.

 

[AK Michelle]

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I've had boxes very carefully labeled FRAGile that have shown up squashed and mangled with the eggs scrambled inside. I have had unmarked boxes show up perfectly intact. For me, it appears, I am at the mercy of the postal workers.

ETA: One box showed up perfectly intact but every single egg was scrambled inside the shell

All our mail goes to Seattle and is loaded on planes, who knows how it gets handled going through all of that.

 

[phasianidae]

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Why? Doesnt Kathy hatch enough for everyone?

 

[Jake Levi]

Mary your pics on the auction thread are beautiful, and Isi is awesome, his and Lukkas' little boy is doing fine, he now gets up in the rafters with the other two, then comes on down lower to be with the six, Blau and the Contessa are looking great, more regal looking every day. The little guys are the best show in town, something new on some every time that I look at them. Got a day off tomorrow from chicken run building because of S&R exercises, and a meeting, back to it wed, should have it all done by the weekend.

Life is good, and better if you have Icelandics in it.

 

[The Sheriff]

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Thanks for the updates Jake! I am re-homing 8 roos tomorrow morning which will hopefully restore some order in the roosting at night. It sounds like Ultimate Cage Fighting in there right now. I will have 3 roos and 26 hens. They should be able to get the job done.

 

[The Sheriff]

I am one of the guilty parties who shipped eggs in unmarked boxes. I stopped marking the boxes "fragile" after I observed that most of the boxes I received marked "fragile" looked as if a baseball bat had been taken to them and the unmarked ones didn't. Then someone who works for the post office posted on BYC saying that there are employees who deliberately rough up "fragile" boxes. I believe most postal employees are stand up people who want to provide the very best service they can but I do not doubt that there are bad apples in the bunch. As a supervisor I sure saw them in my line of work. With this information I will start marking the boxes again and see what happens.

Sorry Mary!

 

[The Sheriff]

Update on Shawn's hatch. 3 out and lots more pipped. Every few hours I change the Brinsea tops from one incubator to the other so that they both get the advantage of the humidity pump. I took the opportunity to remove these three cuties at the switch! They are relaxing in Kelly's incubator until time to go to Idaho. Thanks Kelly! Was that conversation we had on the phone today my warning to clean it before returning it? Cause I wasn't going to!