Is Eggbid.com a rip off? :mad:

[Starwalker Fallen Angel]

Hi, Buying hatching eggs that need to be shipped is a gamble. They are one of the most if not the most fragile thing known to man.

My views on it.

I buy a LOT of eggs with the thoughts that I won't get a single chick.

That way when I do... I can do a happy dance.

I ALWAYS spend money I can afford to throw to the wind. You know, the bills are paid etc and I have a little extra cash I can eek out.

All a seller can do is gather eggs and know there's a rooster or roosters with the hens and pack them the best they can. Thats about all they can do.

I've only sold a few times. Most were good hatches. I had 1 person complain that he had no hatch from my eggs then post on one of the forums how great a hatch he had on Mille Fleur D'Uccle's. Gee.

Could it be the same eggs I sent him and him trying to get freebee eggs? It wasn't worth the effort selling. So, I have 50ish breeds and over 400 chickens. What I don't hatch or eat get pitched down the back hill.

 

[ChooksinIowa]

Just over the last 2 days I have had great hatches on Blue hen of Delaware and Buttercup Bantams that I got on eggbid. I am very pleased. Most of the eggs I've gotten from eggbid have hatched well - the bigger problem is with the shipping.

Claire

 

[Marlinchaser]

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boil them and feed them back to the chickens, mine love a good hard boiled egg.

 

[Starwalker Fallen Angel]

I do that too but sometimes they get sick of so many eggs. I have to limit them because of protein counts. I have over 400 chickens.

Thats a LOT of eggs.