questions about buying hatching eggs...

well, here's my take on it... fewer eggs = smaller package = gets tossed around a LOT more and you end up with more damage. at least in my experience.

i bought 18+ dorking eggs, got 21. 18 were fertile and developed, but 16 quit between 14 and 18 days so i hatched 2. during the same incubation, i also put in 15 EE eggs shipped to me. 10 were fertile, 5 hatched. I also incubated 5 marans eggs (7 shipped, 2 smashed) hatched 0 (opened them up, the yolks were scrambled), and 10 homegrown bantam eggs. hatched 10 bantams...

right now I have 14 of 24 shipped cochin eggs going as of day 14 (today), as well as a bunch of eggs from my young dorking trio. of the first 12 set, i have 3 that were fertile, the next 4, 3 are good, and the last 7 are all fertile too! set dates November 3, 10, 11, 12 as i kept finding hidden bunches).

I always try to incubate shipped and local eggs same time as a sort of 'control group' so i know it's the shipped eggs vs incubator problems.
 
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your experience is why i asked the question. thought maybe i was missing something.

it's really not a matter of getting what you pay for. you may not get anything.
 
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your experience is why i asked the question. thought maybe i was missing something.

it's really not a matter of getting what you pay for. you may not get anything.

no, it's not a matter of getting what you pay for... it's how much is the chance to get something worth to you?

like the cochins i'm incubating now... i REALLY liked her birds, and finding quality cochins locally isn't going to happen. so if i get 3 chicks from 24 eggs, i'm ahead of the game.
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your experience is why i asked the question. thought maybe i was missing something.

it's really not a matter of getting what you pay for. you may not get anything.

no, it's not a matter of getting what you pay for... it's how much is the chance to get something worth to you?

like the cochins i'm incubating now... i REALLY liked her birds, and finding quality cochins locally isn't going to happen. so if i get 3 chicks from 24 eggs, i'm ahead of the game.
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14/24 going right now...

good luck!
 
For me, and this is only my third hatch, all with shipped eggs. The closer the better. I will only buy eggs from neighboring states. Less transit time & handling. Good Luck
 
Recently I ordered 6 eggs - expecting I'd probably get 6 + 2. I received 16! I ordered 10 from another breeder - and they also sent 16! Getting the extra eggs was good except I didn't have room in my bator for all of them. I couldn't bear to let any of the eggs go to waste. So I ended up getting a friend to incubate some of them for me. :)

Then chicken math kicked in - since I already had a friend incubating eggs for me, I ended up ordering even more eggs.
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chicken math... hm... is that when you have 11 bantams, 3 dorkings, but 2 of the bantams were broody so really that's only 9. and since they're broody you can't count the eggs under them either. oh and those 24 shipped eggs are now 13, and the 12 original doring eggs are now 3, oh and i added... 5 more but only 3 of them were good, and the last 7 are still going but i had to add another 5 to make up for the first 9 that were infertile. oh and i've got 4 ee chicks, 7 mutt bantams, and 2 more dorking chicks. oh and 9 more babies from the eggs that were under one broody... that makes... hm. i count 12 in the yard.
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oh make that 13. one of the broodies stopped broody-ing. (fortunately all the eggs went under the other girl who's turned into a fantastic momma).
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They sell 4 plus 2 spares and you pay for 4 and get 2 for free. That way, if 1-2 eggs break in shipment, you've still got your 4 eggs you paid for and have no room to complain.

If you pay for 6 and get 6 and 2 are broken, they aren't guaranteed that the post office won't break them, but many people like to complain loudly about it, anyway.

That's why they are sold that way.
 

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