Resending shipped eggs, when P.O. broke them???

[debilorrah]

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My one to california tomorrow would have cost almost 2 times as much if I sent if UPS. I definitely LOOKED at this option!

Hmm interesting... Are there other alternatives with shipping? Seems like some eggs are so expensive a little more in shipping would be worth it if they could be insured or quaranteed or something?

Unfortunately, those of us in the world of hatching know that buying eggs to be shipped is a crap shoot. You may get 50% hatch rate if you are lucky. I have had several 0% hatches from shipped eggs. I now try to buy west of the Mississippi to cut down on travel time. It seems to help (I am in SoCal).

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I hope you find a method of wrapping/packing that will work for you. I received manymany boxes of what I considered to be half-assed wrapped eggs before I started thinking of shipping eggs. A typical email would be, "Got the eggs and only 5 in the box are broken", and they thought that was acceptable.
I know the people sending them *thought* they were protected, but they were not.
Think outside a 'carton'. Skip the carton and more bubblewrap.

Lisa

 

[KateBeauchemin]

SO CUTE!!!! Love her!!!!

I'm ready to hatch my own here soon! But my broodies are sitting my sis-in-law call duck eggs 2 days left! (fingers, eyes and toes, crossed)

 

[debilorrah]

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I ship eggs (for science projects, tests, etc.) in a tube. Holds about 9 eggs and using the gigantic bubble wrap, them babies aren't moving for nothing. The few times I have shipped the hatch rates were good. Of course, sending more eggs requires a different method than the priority tube......

 

[debilorrah]

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Thanks. I cannot figure out for the life of me where she came from. Obviously white leghorn mother. But my roos are/were RIR cross and a blue wheaten ameraucana.

 

[KateBeauchemin]

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Thanks so much for the information! Life is all about learning new and better things!

 

[debilorrah]

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How do you package them? I tend to package the ones I send for free in about a ton of bubble wrap. First tissue, then two layers of bubble wrap, cradled in tightly packed newspaper. If it is more than 9, otherwise I use the tube.

 

[KateBeauchemin]

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Thanks. I cannot figure out for the life of me where she came from. Obviously white leghorn mother. But my roos are/were RIR cross and a blue wheaten ameraucana.

Got the spangled gene in there somewhere!!! Prolly from blue wheaton side.

I hatched out 15 maran eggs from my mother in law, she has birchen, cuckoo, wels, barnes, white leghorns...
Only hitch was the breeder she got the eggs from to hatch the birchen and cuckoo, came from pens without these in it.

i got a solid white shanked from dark maran egg. Orginal pen had whites in it, Genes play a factor that's for sure!!!

 

[dmiravalle]

I got eggs from TN and all 15 arrived in great shape, they aren't due till next sunday,

But he did a good job wrapping them and had them in a sturdy box. But these are the first I have ever had ship soooooo I have very little experience with it. I would like to someday be able to ship eggs out. So just trying to absorb everything.

 

[debilorrah]

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Thanks. I cannot figure out for the life of me where she came from. Obviously white leghorn mother. But my roos are/were RIR cross and a blue wheaten ameraucana.

Got the spangled gene in there somewhere!!! Prolly from blue wheaton side.

I hatched out 15 maran eggs from my mother in law, she has birchen, cuckoo, wels, barnes, white leghorns...
Only hitch was the breeder she got the eggs from to hatch the birchen and cuckoo, came from pens without these in it.

i got a solid white shanked from dark maran egg. Orginal pen had whites in it, Genes play a factor that's for sure!!!

There is clearly a ressesive gene there somewhere. I am partial to her because my oldest bird, a SSM named Rice & Beans died this year. She was a pistol!!!