I don't believe I'll go for anymore shipped eggs but can't say for sure: I don't know how honest the gentleman I got the eggs from was, but I always hope people treat each other the way they want to be treated. I don't know if someone local would be more honest. I was inexperienced when I bought them. I was unexperienced hatching them. I guess the main question is wanting a special color and the availability. Then can you even have that choice from most places; Are they honest after the hatch do you have the bird you thought you were getting? If I have my own eggs will I have success or failure. I've chose to look for the colors I want and drive to pick up the grown birds, but it isn't 100 miles it's 250 - 500 + miles. Can everyone do that though? People work or if you have livestock and birds is their someone to stay at home to take care of them. It's hard to understand that these big eggs and peachicks could be so fragile. My daughter order some fancy chicken eggs and not one of them hatched either and we hatch our own chickens with excellent hatch rates, all the time. I guess being on here for a while tells me: As a buyer I think they are quite expensive. I guess though if I had the shoe on the other foot I'd think that wasn't enough for a special color peachick when they are so hard to hatch and only so few eggs a year. People make choices of what they wish for. Some people have outright told me they think buying these birds is the most hair brain idea I've ever had. It isn't just the birds it's the pen the care, etc. Fellow who gave me a hard time about the peas chooses to have a muscle car, goes everywhere with it, it dies too. I chose to buy peacocks, and I want certain colors all in all I think I'm wasting less money than he is. I'm diffinately not rich, but I feel a person works hard life is short and sometimes you just need a reward. You're happy with your silver pied chicks. Someone possibly will be happy to pay $75 for the Cameo Pied chick although it wouldn't be me.
