January Egg Swap Addresses Sent

[bantiehen]

Quote:
I'm sorry that happened to you. I felt that way a couple times myself. Once I posted photos of some birds and I felt people were saying they weren't good enough so I gave them away, but now I've found out I should've kept them!!! They were gorgeous! I just don't post photos for people's opinions any more. Also I just don't really follow the threads that have people like that on them. I think it's worse with Ameraucana breeders especially. Some can sound very harsh.

thanks everyone

Hey I just might have to join I've got eggs and they have no where to go lol. My incubators are full at the moment

tell my one chicks are big enough to leave the other incubator and go into the brooder lol. I'll have a empty incubator lol.. Right made up my other mind I'm joining. Thanks everyone for the kind words means a lot to me

 

[dixiebeast]

Quote:
For the most part everyone on here is great but I agree the Ameraucana people can be harsh...I have some myself that I know are pure but wont post because of that...even had a BYCer at the asale I was at to get them tell me they were EEs and a waste of time but guess who I out bid! LOL...glad you stayed!!

 

[PeeperKeeper]

Hi. I have never joined into this swap...but have been watching for the past 2 months. Just had a bad experience with purchased hatching eggs. Not breeders fault. The eggs got stuck one extra day in the mail due to bad road conditions. Evidently they started to develop on the 5 day trip and that's as far as they made it. Just worried about cold and road conditions this time of year. Would like to join the March swap group. My Birthday is March 16 !

 

[shellyga]

Quote:
These swaps are alot of fun and sometimes I have a great hatch..other times not so great.. I figure if you can hatch out refrigerated eggs.. shipping in colder weather can't be much worse.. The friendships I have made on here warm the heart..

Shelly

 

[mrheinz77]

I could try to set you up with somebody close to you. We've all had the experience of eggs not doing well when shipped. Other times we have great hatches. A lot depends on the freshness of eggs and how well they were packed. Wouldn't it be fun to try just 1 swap? Postage isn't bad for 6-8 eggs. Just call me the enabler.

The next few months I am thinking will be:
Feb- Normal swap
March- set for Easter hatch (chickens set March 17)
April- Mother's Day Hatch
After that normal swaps.

Are there any objections?

 

[shellyga]

Quote:
No objections at all..
June - Welcome summer hatch OR yippee I am out of school for the summer hatch
July 4th hatch
August - darn I have to go back to work hatch
Sept - Sept 11th Memorial Hatch

sHELLY

 

[reesepoultry]

I would love to join in this month. But it just snowed and got real cold here. I am afraid that someone that got my eggs would have trouble because of the cold. I don't want noone getting frozen eggs so I am sitting this one out.

 

[9Catsz]

I'm an enabler too, mrheinz77.

Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
I wouldn't worry about the cold at all. Eggs apparently are very, very hardy at least when it comes to cold. I had a hen make a nest outside the fence. She laid 3 eggs in it before I found where she was getting out and plugged the hole. A few days later I found her nest and took the eggs. So at least one of the eggs was out there a full 5 days, another for 4 days and the last one for 3 days and at night temps were in the low 20s, during the day 35-40 and one of those nights it sleeted all night. Had I not read the threads about people hatching Trader Joe's refrigerated eggs from the grocery store I would have just pitched them, but I wanted to see it for myself so I popped my 'refrigerated' eggs into the incubator with a lot of other eggs. All 3 hatched on 12/23!

 

[bantiehen]

Enablers say it isn't so

I don't believe it for one second lol just kidding

Being an Enabler is totally fun

The other day I dropped some eggs off to the post office. My post master told me isn't it too cold to send the eggs. Don't you know how cold it gets in those planes. I shrugged it off and said yep that's the chance that we chicken people take

( mentioned it before)

 

[9Catsz]

Quote:
I wonder if it gets below 20 degrees?