She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[meganhundley]

Did they leave that end up??? Because my po did not. They left it sitting on its side even though it was clearly marked!!! Stupid idiots.

I hate the PO with a passion

 

[ronott1]

I thought so too. It was express and did arrive earlier than planned. I've only bought from two others and they were 10.95 and 17. My PO knew I was expecting eggs but since it wasn't marked in anyway, they just thought it was a regular package and stuffed it in our mailbox on it's side. My chances aren't great with just 6 to start and now probably hopeless

Did you candle the eggs to see what condition they are in?

You really cannot tell what the eggs are going to do by looking at the box.

Marking fragile and this side up will not change much given the way eggs are shipped--It is mostly mechanical and the machines do not know which end is up and cannot read fragile so do not handle the box differently.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

We won! Blue Lightning was undefeated this season!

Now for unpacking pics...


One corner got banged a bit, but you'd never know it from the inside. The egg from that corner had a wobbly aircell, but that's the extent of the damage. The other couple of loose aircells may have been near it--I only took note of the one exactly in the corner.


Nice and tightly packed, big end up and marked with date and breed (though if I can't tell Marans and Sulmtaler eggs apart...

)


2 strips of bubble wrap at 90 degrees from each other. I untaped the first one, then realized that I could carefully slide the eggs out, which was much easier, with less chance of the egg taking a fast half foot trip...


Layer of shavings and bubble wrap on the bottom as well as the top.


Reinforced single box.


Eggs for the incubator and for Frieda! I'll divide them tomorrow after the post-rest candle. Maybe I'll even be able to see the aircells in the ones Ravyn gathered last

 

[Ren2014]

Did you candle the eggs to see what condition they are in?

You really cannot tell what the eggs are going to do by looking at the box.

Marking fragile and this side up will not change much given the way eggs are shipped--It is mostly mechanical and the machines do not know which end is up and cannot read fragile so do not handle the box differently.

I started to but I couldn't tell so I gave up. I'm not blind or anything but I just never see anything like the pictures and videos I see. Ex. I never see the big beautiful veins, can't really see the air sac until much later and even in hatching I never saw one pip or zip... just BOOM and they were climbing out of their shells.

I never really thought of all of that and so true.

 

[meganhundley]

LOL, 50 here but definitely don't act it... look it???  Feeling it Blessed to have made it this far

I've never acted my age, lol, and I used to not look my age either but now my age has caught up to me... And past me, lol.

 

[Ren2014]

We won! Blue Lightning was undefeated this season!

Now for unpacking pics...


One corner got banged a bit, but you'd never know it from the inside. The egg from that corner had a wobbly aircell, but that's the extent of the damage. The other couple of loose aircells may have been near it--I only took note of the one exactly in the corner.


Nice and tightly packed, big end up and marked with date and breed (though if I can't tell Marans and Sulmtaler eggs apart...

)


2 strips of bubble wrap at 90 degrees from each other. I untaped the first one, then realized that I could carefully slide the eggs out, which was much easier, with less chance of the egg taking a fast half foot trip...


Layer of shavings and bubble wrap on the bottom as well as the top.


Reinforced single box.


Eggs for the incubator and for Frieda! I'll divide them tomorrow after the post-rest candle. Maybe I'll even be able to see the aircells in the ones Ravyn gathered last

CONGRATULATIONS on the winning record! That's awesome.

I had one shipper wrap the eggs individually in a paper towel and then use bubble wrap. I'm not sure what the paper towel was for but it was on tight and difficult to get off.

 

[Ren2014]

I've never acted my age, lol, and I used to not look my age either but now my age has caught up to me... And past me, lol.

Hang in there!

I have no idea what the bunny emoji is but I say dance and celebrate we are still here today

 

[meganhundley]

O wow, purple and hot pink are my favorite colors.  I've seen some really beautiful pastel colors but my family and friends would freak if I dyed it that way  

All my family and friends are used to it, I could dye mine rainbow tomorrow and everybody wouldn't think anything about it, lol. I LOVE purple though, I wish I had taken a pic that I could post but I never did

 

[meganhundley]

Update on mine, the air cells look MUCH better now so I'm going to add water in the AM, some still need to grow a tad bit more, but all the embryos are still growing and look really good. It looks like some of the cells are starting to draw down also. Can't wait to see what I get from this bunch. I have 11 left so I'm hoping all 11 will make it but I'm not counting on it cause I don't want to be disappointed if they dont. But on this 1.

 

[kwhites634]

Update on mine, the air cells look MUCH better now so I'm going to add water in the AM, some still need to grow a tad bit more, but all the embryos are still growing and look really good. It looks like some of the cells are starting to draw down also. Can't wait to see what I get from this bunch. I have 11 left so I'm hoping all 11 will make it but I'm not counting on it cause I don't want to be disappointed if they dont. But

on this 1.

Update on mine, the air cells look MUCH better now so I'm going to add water in the AM, some still need to grow a tad bit more, but all the embryos are still growing and look really good. It looks like some of the cells are starting to draw down also. Can't wait to see what I get from this bunch. I have 11 left so I'm hoping all 11 will make it but I'm not counting on it cause I don't want to be disappointed if they dont. But

on this 1.

Double quote...nervous mouse finger

Looks like you've turned the corner on this one...hope it's clear sailing ahead

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