You're right, you never know how well someone is packing those eggs until you see them after you've already bought them. I think some people really know how to pack eggs well for shipping, and they probably would do well regardless of how far they had to be shipped. Trisha at tls_Ranch on this site does a really great job packing eggs for shipping because she packs them in bubble wrap with the large end/air cell up of the egg up and she puts everything in peanuts too, but the shipments I received (from a different source) all came with the eggs laid on their sides. They all had detached air cells and the poor things had been shaken so much barely any grew. They only had the bubble wrap with no extra peanuts too and a couple got broken in shipping.Yes, shipped eggs are a crap shoot. I once got some from Calif. I live in NC. Three hatched of 12. That, I thought was actually good considering all they went through. This Spring I got some from 400 miles away and they had frozen, go figure. It was not even freezing there. You never know with shipped eggs. The eggs I have now from Hinkjc look good and they were shipped. I have not gotten rid of but three of the 16, I received from her and today is lockdown. They are all developing. Yeh! Lav. and white orps. I love their little fuzzy butts. Orps are the sweetest ladies. I got some from Bargain and they all hatched good too. That was last yr. It is according to how the po. feels that day and who they are handled by on the way. If they decide to shake and be mean to them they will not hatch. Believe me some people will do just that. There's one in every crowd. I love it when I can go pick up the eggs myself. Then i know how they are handled. Even then you do not know how the Roo was performing.Yep had some bombs there too. Its a rainy Sun. here. Thats' better than drought though. Have a great Sunday everyone.
It's so hard to wait! I tried to candle a few day 4 and one that I thought was not developing was clearly developing by day 7
