Our English Orps

[Tuffoldhen]

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I hate it too, Renee. I just don't get that some people get really good hatches and others get crappy hatches. I think I am just going to quit selling eggs completely and sell only chicks. I just wish there were a better way to ship eggs than the USPS. I wish they would handle the egg boxes in the same way they handle the live birds.

Sorry that happened...pls think good egg shipping thoughts for me. Tuffoldhen is shipping me BBS orp eggs today. I know her wrapping is renowned!

FYI I've had breeders use my fedex number before and ship them overnight. All made it perfectly with good hatch rate!

They are on their happy way!!! Fingers crossed!!!

I find each year the post office damages more shipped hatching eggs than anything else.

 

[ChooksChick]

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Sorry that happened...pls think good egg shipping thoughts for me. Tuffoldhen is shipping me BBS orp eggs today. I know her wrapping is renowned!

FYI I've had breeders use my fedex number before and ship them overnight. All made it perfectly with good hatch rate!

They are on their happy way!!! Fingers crossed!!!

I find each year the post office damages more shipped hatching eggs than anything else.

Overall, I've had excellent luck with hatched eggs. I had a horrible hatch with my first batch of Lavenders a long time ago, and I had a box of 30 well-packed eggs early last year that arrived unscathed, but acted as though they weren't fertile, just like these. Most of the time I get decent hatches, and some EXCELLENT hatches...so it's really statistically about my time...which stinks.

I'm definitely doing more sales of chicks myself, these days, because I think a lot of folks have rotten luck with Lavender eggs, Marans eggs, and shipped eggs in general. I don't know if the USPS is handling them any differently, but with the popularity of Urban-Ag, I think the number of eggs being shipped is probably exponentially higher than it was previously, putting more losses out there.

I'm not giving up!!

 

[justuschickens59]

Overall, I've had excellent luck with hatched eggs. I had a horrible hatch with my first batch of Lavenders a long time ago, and I had a box of 30 well-packed eggs early last year that arrived unscathed, but acted as though they weren't fertile, just like these. Most of the time I get decent hatches, and some EXCELLENT hatches...so it's really statistically about my time...which stinks.

I just would like to say that I can guarantee with 100% certainty that my eggs are fertile. There may be the occasional egg now and then that isn't, but that is normal.

I have a question, though. I have read on the boards here before where people say that they could tell that shipped eggs weren't fertile to begin with? I'm really curious as to how a person can tell that? I mean, after shipping eggs 100s of miles, being bounced around and kicked around by the PO, then sitting in an incubator for 10 or so days, how on earth can a person tell that an egg was never fertile? Personally, I just dont' see how this is possible, but that is just my opinion. What do the rest of you think?​

 

[alicefelldown]

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Magnificent!! You have such lovely birds!

 

[Tuffoldhen]

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I just would like to say that I can guarantee with 100% certainty that my eggs are fertile. There may be the occasional egg now and then that isn't, but that is normal.

I have a question, though. I have read on the boards here before where people say that they could tell that shipped eggs weren't fertile to begin with? I'm really curious as to how a person can tell that? I mean, after shipping eggs 100s of miles, being bounced around and kicked around by the PO, then sitting in an incubator for 10 or so days, how on earth can a person tell that and egg was never fertile? Personally, I just dont' see how this is possible, but that is just my opinion. What do the rest of you think?

Joy I have hatched out 1000's of chicks from shipped and my own eggs. You can not in my opinion tell an egg was not fertile by opening it up after shipping and incubation has started. You can tell ruptured air cells and development that has stopped by candling but not if an egg was not fertile by cracking it open. It's a risk to hatch out shipped eggs and people need to realize this in the hatching egg world.

 

[hippichick]

I totally agree with you, Joy and Sandy. I can't see how one would tell whether an egg is fertile or not after everything it goes through during shipping. Having eggs shipped is definitely a chance you take. I've had ups and downs with shipped eggs this year, and none of the bad hatches have been due to packaging. You just never know what the eggs go through en route. But if I get a couple to hatch, I feel it's more than I had before. If none hatch, I try again-or sometimes not, depending on how badly I need those particular birds.

 

[justuschickens59]

Thanks AliceFellDown !! I have seen your screen name before and I laugh like an idiot everytime I see it. I love it !

Thanks Sandy and Paula - I just wondered how other people felt about this issue.

 

[justuschickens59]

DRUMROLL PLEASE .................. I HAVE ANOTHER CLEMENTINE EGG PIP

More hatching vibes people !!

 

[hippichick]

Woohoo! Good luck Joy! Fingers crossed for you...

 

[BamaChicken]

All excited about the new pip.
Paula I agree with you. If I have one to hatch that is more than I had if it is something I am really wanting. Have been in that position.
I was glad to end up with Charlie and Lizzy.