Hi
Not wanting to be a party pooper but it is not OK to just ship eggs for hatching even within the EU. So even if your in the UK, you need to jump though a lot of hoops to export eggs legally from the UK. This includes a vet coming to your premises, sending applications to Animal health for export licenses, and potentially testing for salmonella (unless geese or pigeons)
which can involve I quote-blood samples must be collected at random from a sufficient number of birds to give a 95% probability of detecting infection at a prevalence of 5%.- this will involve testing all your birds if you have less than 20.
This is for each batch of eggs sent , and this is Animal health been kind for lots under 20 eggs, if you want to send more than 20 eggs you have to join the poultry health scheme- which will cost a small fortune for the small producer and limit your activities from then on.......thats if you could get in it.....
Then there is the import countries rules that you will need to satisfy and they are different even within the EU, it will depend on them as to what trouble you get in. If you go ahead the UK customs will not really care, they are going out and not really their problem anymore its the other countries customs that's the problem, if your lucky they will just destroy the eggs, but it is a dangerous game, worse case scenerio, if a disease outbreak implicated your eggs as a potential source........its a criminal offence that you've done and in which case massive fines and possible jail time....... after all they can be tracked back to you ie if bought though
ebay etc
Basically unless you can afford the cost and time of doing the paperwork, the risks are too great for a couple of dollers worth of eggs. Just remember if you do the paperwork and its all Vet signed etc then its not your arse on the line and its not jail time and your not responsible for a multi-mllion doller cost of a disease outbreak.....
People get away with it because customs officers can't be up to date on everything and the eggs get lost in the volume of mail going though.
So if anyone wants to risk it ..... honestly on the whole the risks are pretty small but so are the rewards and if it goes wrong ....Arghhh
If someone wants eggs that bad moved in the EU they'll have to come over on holiday. You sell in the UK to a UK customer, its not you on the line anymore, you've broken no laws. And then they can try and get them back over..... (Ps I'm not advising anyone to come to the UK and remove eggs in this way, its illegal
just don't do it, I'm just saying don't be bullied into it, if someone wants to break the law make sure they not putting you on the line by breaking it- its their risks leave them to it )
