Questions about Guineas. Coop is finished! Keets were moved out today.

[PeepsCA]

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Seriously, after what you already went thru, they told you "No"? You are being much more passive about it than I'd be, lol. I wouldn't be asking, I'd be demanding at this point

Thanks for giving us play by play details of the ordeal you are going thru with your order. I'll be sure to look elsewhere if I ever order keets

And I figured I'd mention the obsessive compulsive disinfecting idea to ya, because some people don't realize the damage one little germ can do, especially to shipping stressed keets...

 

[StevenW.]

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Seriously, after what you already went thru, they told you "No"? You are being much more passive about it than I'd be, lol. I wouldn't be asking, I'd be demanding at this point

Thanks for giving us play by play details of the ordeal you are going thru with your order. I'll be sure to look elsewhere if I ever order keets

And I figured I'd mention the obsessive compulsive disinfecting idea to ya, because some people don't realize the damage one little germ can do, especially to shipping stressed keets...

I wanted to do this -

BUT I was being nice.
I've have better luck with eggs than this.

I want to order from Ralph Winters but I don't want/need 30 Guinea Keets.

Oh and I was reading on this other forum where this lady wanted eggs from someone but they had to be NPIP and all they did was not put "Hatching Eggs" on the box and only put "Fragile" and they arrived better than boxes that had "Hatching Eggs" on it.

Weird because I've had that same luck without marking the box and only putting "Fragile.:

 

[perchie.girl]

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Seriously, after what you already went thru, they told you "No"? You are being much more passive about it than I'd be, lol. I wouldn't be asking, I'd be demanding at this point

Thanks for giving us play by play details of the ordeal you are going thru with your order. I'll be sure to look elsewhere if I ever order keets

And I figured I'd mention the obsessive compulsive disinfecting idea to ya, because some people don't realize the damage one little germ can do, especially to shipping stressed keets...

I wanted to do this -

BUT I was being nice.
I've have better luck with eggs than this.

I want to order from Ralph Winters but I don't want/need 30 Guinea Keets.

Oh and I was reading on this other forum where this lady wanted eggs from someone but they had to be NPIP and all they did was not put "Hatching Eggs" on the box and only put "Fragile" and they arrived better than boxes that had "Hatching Eggs" on it.

Weird because I've had that same luck without marking the box and only putting "Fragile.:

Of course that's under the assumption that someone actually READS what is put on the box.... Much of what the post office does is Automated. Especially once it reaches the central location where the mail is sorted. The best of handling initially may be ruined by a huge central sorting area. it would be very interesting to send a box marked how ever appropriately with a Camera and an impact sensor. I know how to do it too. Long boring story.

 

[StevenW.]

perchie.girl :

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I wanted to do this -

BUT I was being nice.
I've have better luck with eggs than this.

I want to order from Ralph Winters but I don't want/need 30 Guinea Keets.

Oh and I was reading on this other forum where this lady wanted eggs from someone but they had to be NPIP and all they did was not put "Hatching Eggs" on the box and only put "Fragile" and they arrived better than boxes that had "Hatching Eggs" on it.

Weird because I've had that same luck without marking the box and only putting "Fragile.:

Of course that's under the assumption that someone actually READS what is put on the box.... Much of what the post office does is Automated. Especially once it reaches the central location where the mail is sorted. The best of handling initially may be ruined by a huge central sorting area. it would be very interesting to send a box marked how ever appropriately with a Camera and an impact sensor. I know how to do it too. Long boring story.​

Good Point.

I wanna hear a story! I'm actually quite bored at the moment and have nothing else to do..

 

[PeepsCA]

72 hours, are you kidding me? Keets can't go 72 hours w/o food and water good gawd!!!!!

 

[StevenW.]

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Peeps! I'm telling you, you need to plan a vacation up here a bring me some of those colorful babys!

Or Eggs.........

I have a really bad hatching addiction........

Oh and I hear peeping from the bator and I think its the Coronation Sussex, only one I think that "might" hatch. I could use it as a trainer chick for the Keets so they learn what is food and what is not food?

 

[PeepsCA]

Wow... sending uncertified hatching eggs as a regular fragile package is fraud and illegal, possibly even spreading poultry disease to other states. I'll pass

 

[StevenW.]

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NPIP isn't to test for diseases it's for the health of people.

(Well its the way I understood it.)

 

[StevenW.]

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[perchie.girl]

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Of course that's under the assumption that someone actually READS what is put on the box.... Much of what the post office does is Automated. Especially once it reaches the central location where the mail is sorted. The best of handling initially may be ruined by a huge central sorting area. it would be very interesting to send a box marked how ever appropriately with a Camera and an impact sensor. I know how to do it too. Long boring story.

Good Point.

I wanna hear a story! I'm actually quite bored at the moment and have nothing else to do..

LOL.... the short version is I used to work in the telecommunication industry designing equipment for infrastructure.... The equipment that goes into the cell phone towers to name one. My end was strictly mechanical. Aluminum boxes and steel racks to contain electromagnetic generating devices. Lots of circuit boards. Many very sensitive to impact. At one point I had to design the actual shipping boxes that the components were packaged in. With the help of a Cardboard box manufacturer we made test boxes packed them a certain way and put impact sensors on them to test how well they did their job when dropped ten feet off a ladder. We even had one rack arrive off the truck in Washington state that had a bullet hole in it. So did the truck.... LOL. Only one component had been damaged. Luck of the draw.

And My dad automated the Post Office here in San Diego on its first go round with automatic sorting equipment. He was very gifted with high speed manufacturing equipment. Either tweaking it to make it better or designing it from scratch. That was back in the seventies....

Packing for shipping seems simple but sometimes its not. Youd think that packing somehting completely rigid so that it cannot move is the best thing.... Not really. but you have to figure in how much give the actual box needs to have to survive the trip and absorb the necessary impact to protect the contents. At one point I even considered becoming a packaging engineer. I have held several engineering hats over the years.... but I only had a highschool diploma... Thank goodness the Peter Principle caught up with me about the time I was ready to retire.

Now I am just looking for some simple drafting work here in San Diego.