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NatureChica said:
I'd be very embarrassed of those eggs if I were her...and honestly isn't it safer for her to hide from you? She's probably worried she's going to get attacked and maybe just maybe she's done this to more people than just you and it hasn't gone well for her.

I had a bum hatch with dirty eggs first week of September. I feel ya. I never tried to get with her about it because I'd prefer to find a cleaner source for eggs in the future...I cut my losses due to wanting to avoid confrontation.

I've got my fingers crossed for you. Its painful to hope in cases like this. We dread opening the bator because more are bound to be dead...

I promise it will get better. We can call this your Halloween Hatch from Hell... It might be too soon to laugh for you yet but I had to try.
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Better to laugh than cry I guess, lol. She's seriously p***in me off though. I really want to go to her house and make her talk to me, face to face. And I've been thinking of doing like you said though, just cutting my loses and working with what I get from this hatch, if anything. I don't want anymore dirty, nasty eggs to stress over and this time they would be shipped on top of being filthy so I'm sure they wouldn't do good at all. And I'm pretty sure I'm not the first person she's done this to. The bad thing is she runs a website for selling Icelandics and eggs. I wish I had seen some feedback or comments on her so called "services" but of course there wasn't anything like that on her site.
ETA: Did you wash your's also?
 
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WalnutHill said:
It's okay to cry over spoiled eggs, but when those are done set some local cheap eggs and work on technique.  Document everything you do and everything you see, and over time you will see what works and what doesn't.
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I think I might wait til Spring. BUT... I already have some cheap local eggs lined up for when Spring gets here! Some EE's and some CCLB's :) And I can't wait!! Also the guy I bought my bator from told me he'd GIVE me 2 dozen eggs to hatch this Fall so I may take him up on that too. I might email him this week and see what he says. I need to get my hatching morale up. I think he has a mixed flock but I saw a real pretty Orpington roo that he has. I really don't care what they are as long as I can actually get something to hatch :/
 
The only eggs I ever washed before setting were 18 bantam and 24 Black Australorp from a woman about 40 miles away. They were disgustingly filthy, I should have never picked them up, but the price was good. I HAD to wash and sanitize them as she had them in cartons and her 50+ cats piss on everything, including egg cartons. I washed them in hot water and sanitized with mild bleach solution.

Air cells were 14 day stage on some of them. I tossed all two dozen of the Australorp eggs by the end of week one as they started stinking up the place. Surprisingly, 8 of the bantams did hatch despite all the points against them.
 
WalnutHill said:
The only eggs I ever washed before setting were 18 bantam and 24 Black Australorp from a woman about 40 miles away.  They were disgustingly filthy, I should have never picked them up, but the price was good.  I HAD to wash and sanitize them as she had them in cartons and her 50+ cats piss on everything, including egg cartons.  I washed them in hot water and sanitized with mild bleach solution.

Air cells were 14 day stage on some of them.  I tossed all two dozen of the Australorp eggs by the end of week one as they started stinking up the place.  Surprisingly, 8 of the bantams did hatch despite all the points against them.
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That gives me some hope atleast.
 
rossfam06 said:
I wish I was out far...but we love the coast. Not much extra land near the coast.
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Plenty of extra land on this coast
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Not that we have any money right now to get any, but it's still there.

So, to be clear--yep, Frieda's broody, and Ravyn will be sending me eggs tomorrow. I could've actually had her send them earlier, but I'm waiting on my hygrometer to arrive, and it's supposed to be here tomorrow. I figure I'll have the couple days of transit time to get everything calibrated, and then transit and resting time to make sure everything's ready. I could've had her send them sooner, but I had used the order-$35-worth-of-stuff-and-get-free-shipping option (my older daughter got a $20 Amazon gift card from the library's summer reading program, and I took advantage of the need to spend $35 to get a hygrometer
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) so it's taking foreverrrrrr... Of course, 12 hours after I placed the order is when Frieda decided she was going to go full-on broody, instead of just toying with the idea.
 
Well, I think I'm going to hit the hay, I have to get up earlier than normal tomorrow and go see my counselor at the clinic and then I have to come home and see how many more eggs have quit on me. Tomorrow is lockdown so I have to candle again. Normally that would excite me but this time it worries me more than anything else, I'm not looking forward to tossing anymore eggs :/ See y'all tomorrow afternoon :frow
 
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