Poly-foam egg shipping question

[sega]

I am thinking about purchasing some Poly-foam chicken egg shipping blocks to start shiping my Araucana eggs in. I currently ship them in doubled wrappings of 3/8 bubble wrap around each egg. This is very time consumming to wrap each egg.

I am wondering if anyone on here has ever used Poly-foam or had eggs shipped to them using Poly-foam block? What is the opinions of these type of egg shippers? Which have you had the best hatch rates with Bubble wrap or Ploy-foam?

 

[sega]

I guess nobody has ever had eggs shipped to them in this type of packaging? Going to try it and see how good it works.

 

[SpiritedFarm]

i have never had shipped eggs.

Why dont you ship some to yourself and then you will really be able to see the before and after!

 

[madamwlf]

I use them for my Legbar eggs and I love them. It's the only way I will ship eggs. And customers have had great hatch rates with my eggs being shipped in these.

 

[wingstone]

I have gotten quail eggs shipped this way, although they made the trip in good shape I found them hard to get out of the foam (broke 2 getting them out). hatch rate still unknown but as far as I can tell all are developing on schedule .

 

[sega]

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[sega]

i have never had shipped eggs.

Why dont you ship some to yourself and then you will really be able to see the before and after!

Great Idea. But, I think I would rather just find out what others think about them and then decide if I want to start using them.
But, thanks for your input!!

 

[math ace]

I just had some buff leghorn eggs shipped to me in them....

The good.... The eggs arrived undamaged and chilled. That is right, the foam must of acted like an insulator because the eggs were chilled. I received 2 batches of eggs at the same time. The ones in foam were cool and the ones packed in bubble wrap were room temperature.

The bad.... The eggs are mighty hard to REMOVE from the foam. I had one egg FLY out of the foam and land on another egg still in the foam. Trust me... I was NOT happy! Both eggs were cracked.

My hatch.... I hatched almost every egg shipped and not damaged during the SQUEEZING out of the foam process.

I was wary about the foam. I had heard that the yolks were scrambled during shipping, BUT I had a FANTASTIC hatch with the foam.

 

[Eggcessive]

I had some very expensive eggs shipped recently by a popular BYCer in these polyfoam things, and out of 15 eggs shipped 5 came out, were rolling around, and 3 of the 5 were caved in and cracked. Many of the rest were difficult to get out. I feel that if the seller would have just added another layer or 2 of padding at the top, they wouldn't have come out since there was a bit of room inside the lid. Two chicks did manage to hatch though.

 

[cashdl]

Hi Greg,

I have used those in the past and felt they weren't really worth the money. With Araucana eggs they are a little small for the holes and can move around a bit. I went back to the double wrapping with bubble wrap. I am kicking around usuing pipe insulation foam though. You cut it slightly longer than the egg. Slit it on one side, wrap it around the egg and tape shut. Wad up a paper towel and stuff in both ends then tape the ends so the paper towel cannot get out. Then set the eggs in the box with the pointy end down and voila. Same as the shipping foam only better and cheaper. Right now I am using cotton batting along with the bubble wrap and am getting good results but like you say, time consuming.

Lanae