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Then there is another thing that comes to my mind. We live up in the mountains and temps are still below freezing at night and very often in the daytime as well when the birds come into our local store. They get usually transported several hours through the mountains and I bet many of them get chilled. Nobody flys in birds into our airport, because the planes are just to small. They usually arrive in Portland and get trucked from there, a distance that takes 5 hours per car. Much longer with trucks in the mountain passes. Can that cause symptoms of runny noses? Perhaps she is just mistaken, because she mentioned that they did not have that issue when they were getting the birds locally. I personally got hatching eggs a month after they were selling birds, and I waited that long because of the climate and the worry that the eggs freeze in transit. This year we still had freezing nights in May. Now I start to think that I may have solved the issue she was talking about. She may has no idea what was causing the problem. I will tell her next time what I think may have been the issue. She is a really nice person, and that makes her so trustworthy. A temperature issue during shipping is clearly out of the hands of the hatchery. Plus a large operation like Ideal is probably pretty much on top of keeping their equipment clean. If you guys never had an issue with Ideal then that speaks for itself. BTW it was never my intend to make that company look bad, but I thought that it should be posted if there may be the possibility of some truth to it. I was close to order from them this year, but I could not get what I wanted when the temps were right up here.
