online Crazy Egg Chain Chat thread

[wolftracks]

OK Last month whe I shipped eggs I had two broken in two of the shipments. I was so upset. These were the first ever broken eggs for me. I want these eggs to hatch. If I want to have something I can make feed money with I need great shipping and hatching. I try very hard to have others hatch my chicks and be happy with them. They are my projects and I want to be able to offer the best I can.

I have had some have not so good hatches. Others do very well. I just got a pm a couple of days ago, telling me that all but 1 hatched. I always send extras and sometimes I send lots of them.

I have gotten smashed boxes, eggs wrapped in one layer of tp and losely packaged. Gotta say that eveen great packaging has been crushed. Not the fault of the sender. I've spent a lot of money I no longer have to get what I want and I've had so many zero hatches from shipped eggs. Still............how else do you get what you're looking for? I do transport birds and eggs through the Egg Train, but I can only do so much. It was going well and fizzles and then picks up and then fizzles again. I need better organization and help, but to scatter brained to do it. Plus, it's supposed to work when people are just traveling and making it easy.

I caught up in here and some of the shipping pics made me

I went to the PO this week and I saw those flat boxes and smiled when I thought those wouldn't work too well. I can't believe someone would even try it.

I've got trades in here and I hope that everything makes it safely and that every egg hatches. Still giddy over all but one hatching. Think I sent 14, but not sure.

If anyone gets a bad package from me I want them to let me know. If it was my fault please tell me why. I'm trying new ways. The old way always worked before, but it didn't last month. So, I'm trying to get something to work right. So please let me know when anyone gets their eggs from me. I really do want to know if I'm doing a good job or if I'm not.

I love the swaps here and I want to know that who ever gets eggs from me is happy with what I offer. I've gotten great eggs lately and I want to do the same.

 

[reesepoultry]

Shelleyd2008 I got 8 cortunix quail to hatch out of the eggs from you. They are all thriving well. They are a little over a week old and so teeny tiny. But so cute. They are really friendly too, I was shocked. Thanks a bunch.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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They are super friendly, I can pet most of mine like a dog

 

[tazcat70]

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Ok Wolf- I hate to tell you this, and on an open forum too, but I am so disgusted with the eggs I got from you. Of the 9 I set only 6 of them are developing. I demand that you ship some more of these wonderful...umm horrible eggs to me.

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

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Maybe we should make a label proclaiming it Catfish Bait!!

I mean, have you ever smelled that stuff?!?

 

[emvickrey]

I've gotten some pretty badly packaged eggs before. I've always gotten replacements when I did complain but they where packed the same way. I just don't get eggs from them anymore. I've tried different ways of packing. The way I do them now seems to work well. The post offices that the packages pass thru are pretty rough. I'm sure they just toss the boxes in the bins when sorting them. The post office I take mine to know whats in them when they see me walk in the door. My mail carrier carries my boxes to my door and if i'm not home she puts them in my car and leaves a note in the mail box that a package is in the car. She even asked me if I got a box that was missing. Of course I haven't. They where due to arrive on May 9th and still haven't been scanned anywhere except from when the shipper took the box to her post office. She has done everything she could to find the box with no luck.

I've had pretty good luck with getting most of the eggs intact if not all in certain boxes. I did get a couple of shipments that where alot like the one pictured a few pages back. She just put the eggs in cartons and put them in a box with no padding what so ever. When I got that box yolk was leaking out of it. My mail carrier apologized for it but I know it wasn't them. They know when I have a box it has eggs. This is a small town, not hard to know what people get.

I'm on my last hatch date as of tomorrow of some duck eggs. There are 5 in the bator and 4 are pipped. I'm hoping I wake up to ducklings in the morning.

The most I got to hatch where guineas this time around. I have bob white, silkies and jap bantams in the bator for the next round. I plan to hatch out my sizzles, some by broody's and some in the bator. Tomorrow I'll be handing out eggs to the silkies. Most of mine are broody so they may as well do something useful besides just sit in hopes another hen will get up so they can steal their eggs. lol The only silkie eggs I get right now are 2 a day, a black hen and a white one. So since I put a new roo with the sizzles I want to see what color they turn out to be. I have a tri colored silkie roo with 3 white sizzle hens that carry the black gene. I've never gotten a white sizzle from them. Should be interesting. There are some people that got some of the sizzle eggs in with their swap silkie eggs. So there are more out there besides what i'll be hatching.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

I am about ready to quit hatching anything but my quail & silkies.

This is the worst year ever for shipped eggs for me.

Either nothing is developing (severely shaken eggs), or it develops partly and not all the way I think due to no room because the airsac is dislodged - it looks to push down on the chick when I candle and the chick has no room to grow or move.
I try to hatch everything I get ...... but this is getting to be a pain.


My JBC Quail I hatched out last week are like little popcorn kernels when I put my hand in their bin. They love to jump up into my hand

Even my grown ones still do that when I put my hand in to get eggs from their pen.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I had a hawk attack my chickens today, it was awful. My young black orpington was dead and feathers everywhere. And the hawk flew away with my poor sweet polish , it was screaming. But there was nothing I could do except lock up the rest. Makes me wish I had a shotgun.:'(

 

[shelleyd2008]

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If the air cells are seriously misshapen you might want to run your humidity a little on the high side during incubation, at least 45%. I know I read you normally dry hatch (at least I think that was you), but 'wet' hatching some of the more messed up ones might help.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I couldn't imagine seeing that happen

I lost a mille fleur d'uccle hen last fall, something came in a snatched her right off her nest (she was broody). I ran out there but of course it was dark and I didn't grab my flashlight. I could hear her screaming but whatever took her went out in the woods and it's pretty much impossible to walk in there in daylight, much less in the dark of night. My son was pretty upset about that, she was 'his' hen...always followed him around waiting for goodies, letting him carry her around. We have one of her daughters, one of the eggs she was setting when she was taken. We'll probably keep that little hen forever. Too bad she's not as friendly as her mama

Sorry you lost some birds