looking for black copper maran eggs

[klf73]

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I agree, too much can happen during shipping. You may get an awesome hatch and the eggs I may get from the same breeder may show up scrambled, or vice versa.
I didn't get into marans to make money, I have even offered a few people some eggs next year for what some would sell some nice orp eggs for. I have got some araucana that I traded egg for egg and will be sending bc marans for my part. I have a chart and can rate my own eggs(or send pics of eggs with chart if someone was interested).
Good luck!

 

[sara]

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I'll trade Araucana eggs for marans eggs. lol

 

[BuckeyeDave]

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How about I pay them for the eggs and then they pay me for the time it takes to take pics, judge and design their page, document the hatch rate, take pics of the chicks at different stages through maturity. It is actually to their advantage, I charge a might bit more than the value of 6 eggs for an hour of web design. Ask someone with a professionally designed website how much they pay for the design and a year of server space.
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If you send 6 eggs to one guy and 6 more to another odds are they will incubate and judge them differently, if you send them to the same guy once there are in the incubator they go through the same incubation process, the same scrutiny, to be compared side by side to other breeding eggs and stock, the advantage would be to the breeder to show the future buyers the quality of their flock. I could see where a breeder with a substandard flock wouldn't be interested, I mean imaging having their eggs actually looked at a compared to others..... egad.
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Neither did I but to be able to pay for the hobby? I would love to break even on something I enjoy as much as my chickens.
And sheeeeoot, if your trading for off Marans breeds I have some award winning lines of buckeye eggs I'd love to swap with you.
Peace,
Dave

 

[ninjapoodles]

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How about your BBS Ameraucana eggs? DEAL!

I got beautiful eggs from you earlier this year, and botched the hatch (nothing was wrong with the eggs). Been wanting to try again for a while!

 

[4kidZ]

But it is still a gamble wiith shipping, and you are only raising the price of the eggs this way.
Maybe better w/ eggs that are in your area that can be picked up or dropped off as this way, you don't have existential elements in that can interfere with what you say you are trying to do.

~4kidZ

 

[4kidZ]

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OMG...that pic of the ninjapoodles is hilarious! I have a mini white that I saved from going to the pound. And I could picture her in that pic!!

~4kidZ

 

[ninjapoodles]

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You mean on the blog banner? (The blog I haven't updated in over a month, now?

) My friend Sheryl whipped that up using a couple of my Flickr pictures! I LOVE it! Most bloggers I know regularly change their banner images, but I've kept that one up for over three years now, because I just get such a kick out of it.

 

[BuckeyeDave]

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Life is full of risks, but most risks can be mitigated with slight effort, preparation and planning. The only external element is the USPS, and if the box is packed well and securely that risk can be cut to a minimum, my local PO has 5 employees, they call me when a package arrives because they don't want to come out here, it saves a couple of hours in the local drivers truck.
Peace,
Dave

 

[4kidZ]

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Life is full of risks, but most risks can be mitigated with slight effort, preparation and planning. The only external element is the USPS, and if the box is packed well and securely that risk can be cut to a minimum, my local PO has 5 employees, they call me when a package arrives because they don't want to come out here, it saves a couple of hours in the local drivers truck.
Peace,
Dave

Yes...but with the lack of marans eggs out there (Good/great eggs) why would you take that gamble? You are very lucky with your post. I used to be a rural carrier and I can tell you from experience that regardless of how eggs are packaged, they CAN and WILL be x-rayed, scrambled, cracked, etc. Some carriers are so uncaring, they will x-ray if says "PLEASE DON'T x-ray", the will pile heavy boxes on top of a box that says "FRAGILE"., etc.

It doesn't happen everywhere, but it does happen. My experience with Express pkgs are better through Fed-Ex than USPS (some DHL experiences have been most excellent, too.) But when you start using express shipping, etc., than you've just added more cost to the eggs.

I just received thEEE most phenomenally packed eggs from peachick. 6 of them. The best packing I have seen thus far, double boxed, etc. It had the nice little red stamp (the 3rd pkg in a WEEK that had that stamp) marked "damaged in shipment". Box didn't look like it was damaged...
1 egg inside was cracked, and I ended up with only 1 hatch. I get 100% hatch rate with eggs I have at home. It is a proven fact that the risk of damaged eggs in shipping is high.

Then, there are the animal rights activists. If you mark live embryos or "live hatching eggs", there are places where animal rights activists will illegally confiscate eggs.

So, again, there are a lot of elements that go on in shipping a package, that I personally wouldn't take a chance. But who's to say that someone else doesn't care as much about the chance, and have unlimited funds to do so....

~4kidZ

 

[4kidZ]

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You mean on the blog banner? (The blog I haven't updated in over a month, now?

) My friend Sheryl whipped that up using a couple of my Flickr pictures! I LOVE it! Most bloggers I know regularly change their banner images, but I've kept that one up for over three years now, because I just get such a kick out of it.

YES!!! Hilarious! Makes me smile, just thinking about it