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[FridayYet]

Well I cant figure out how to multi post. I am think that some of the eggs are possibly over a week old. If I were shipping eggs I would send them how I expect to receive them. I have incubated mildy poopy eggs before but not this bad. I don't think that I have had a porous egg hatch yet, even though this will only be my 4th hatch. Any that were incubated failed. I can understand muddy feet and a bit of poop. I have had chickens before and I always collected the eggs pretty much just laid and always keep the nesting boxes clean. I don't wash them either. I have sent her an email to allow her to make me a happy customer. She has time before I write the review. I am letting these sit for a full 24 hrs at room temperature. I will start turning them on day 5, to give them the best possible chance. I read an article for shipped eggs and will go by that to the letter. These were shipped by ground not air and still had detached air cells. That was the post offices fault. But she hadn't even marked the box with live eggs for hatching either. So they were probably just thrown willy nilly.

Sorry about the rant. Thanks for your support.

As you catch up on this thread, click the "multi" button in the corner for each post you want to reply to. When you get to the last post you want to quote, also hit the "quote" button and they all should appear in the reply box.

Rant away, that's what we are here for.

I ordered from two separate people last hatch. The box marked "fragile - hatching eggs" had the worst damage - one whole corner caved in.

 

[chicapee]

As you catch up on this thread, click the "multi" button in the corner for each post you want to reply to. When you get to the last post you want to quote, also hit the "quote" button and they all should appear in the reply box.

Rant away, that's what we are here for.

I ordered from two separate people last hatch. The box marked "fragile - hatching eggs" had the worst damage - one whole corner caved in.

The packing was good with no signs of damage.

 

[scflock]

Well I cant figure out how to multi post. I am think that some of the eggs are possibly over a week old. If I were shipping eggs I would send them how I expect to receive them. I have incubated mildy poopy eggs before but not this bad. I don't think that I have had a porous egg hatch yet, even though this will only be my 4th hatch. Any that were incubated failed. I can understand muddy feet and a bit of poop. I have had chickens before and I always collected the eggs pretty much just laid and always keep the nesting boxes clean. I don't wash them either. I have sent her an email to allow her to make me a happy customer. She has time before I write the review. I am letting these sit for a full 24 hrs at room temperature. I will start turning them on day 5, to give them the best possible chance. I read an article for shipped eggs and will go by that to the letter. These were shipped by ground not air and still had detached air cells. That was the post offices fault. But she hadn't even marked the box with live eggs for hatching either. So they were probably just thrown willy nilly.

Sorry about the rant. Thanks for your support.

Not that this will help you at all, but by far the most porous eggs I ever set were 24 Easter Eggers. 23 hatched

 

[BYC910]

Well I cant figure out how to multi post. I am think that some of the eggs are possibly over a week old. If I were shipping eggs I would send them how I expect to receive them. I have incubated mildy poopy eggs before but not this bad. I don't think that I have had a porous egg hatch yet, even though this will only be my 4th hatch. Any that were incubated failed. I can understand muddy feet and a bit of poop. I have had chickens before and I always collected the eggs pretty much just laid and always keep the nesting boxes clean. I don't wash them either. I have sent her an email to allow her to make me a happy customer. She has time before I write the review. I am letting these sit for a full 24 hrs at room temperature. I will start turning them on day 5, to give them the best possible chance. I read an article for shipped eggs and will go by that to the letter. These were shipped by ground not air and still had detached air cells. That was the post offices fault. But she hadn't even marked the box with live eggs for hatching either. So they were probably just thrown willy nilly.

Sorry about the rant. Thanks for your support.

rant away I understand not only leave a negative leave a nasty note

 

[AmyLynn2374]

EBay has some way you can get rid of negative feedback. I've read it over and over about how people leave bad feedback, especially for hatching eggs, and then that feedback disappears.

You can report negative feedback and ask that it be reviewed and removed.

As you catch up on this thread, click the "multi" button in the corner for each post you want to reply to. When you get to the last post you want to quote, also hit the "quote" button and they all should appear in the reply box.

Rant away, that's what we are here for.

I ordered from two separate people last hatch. The box marked "fragile - hatching eggs" had the worst damage - one whole corner caved in.

I heard that if they are marked they are treated worse intentionally and if that is true it's sad.

rant away I understand not only leave a negative leave a nasty note

I honestly think ebay is getting worse.

 

[sideWing]

As you catch up on this thread, click the "multi" button in the corner for each post you want to reply to.  When you get to the last post you want to quote, also hit the "quote" button and they all should appear in the reply box.

Rant away, that's what we are here for.

I ordered from two separate people last hatch.  The box marked "fragile - hatching eggs" had the worst damage - one whole corner caved in.

I asked for no stickers last time and I had the best hatch I have ever had. Just paid a lot for nice eggs and asked for no stickers again.

 

[silkiecuddles]

While y'all are talking about shipped eggs, thought I would throw this in. I read that if you ask for them to be marked, like 'fragile', then the post office X-Rays them. The X-ray kills the embryos, thus resulting in a bad hatch.

 

[FridayYet]

SideWing - your new chicks are cute. Maybe the person you got the chicks from got the parents from Urch?

The show Wyandotte you posted was very pretty, but I really want some of these walking around the yard:



This is Jacqui Moore's from the UK. I'm on a waiting list to get some chicks from recent UK imports in the fall/spring.

 

[RubyNala97]

Any egg shipper worth his salt would put the date collected on the egg.

Great advice BYC thanks!

I agree but I've never gotten this on any of my shipped eggs. I did have one shipped egg that had the word "new" written on it...I thought "ok, as opposed to the others...?...are they old?" That one turned out infertile anyway.

I will use mildly dirty eggs, but not soiled. I don't want them washed, but unless it is raining it is easy to keep fairly clean eggs. Most of my eggs look washed in the summer

You should have seen the pea eggs!! Filthy! The guy does not collect eggs. He goes around the pen and picks up laid eggs and puts them in a make shift nest he made, thats on the ground, in the center of the pen. He gave them to me in a plastic container with a lid. I almost fell over when I opened the container! They stunk and were covered in crap. I washed them with a wet paper towel. Then polished them with a dry paper towel. Honest to God, I had no hope in any of them hatching! (As I sit here with 3 chicks, lol).

 

[chicapee]

Not that this will help you at all, but by far the most porous eggs I ever set were 24 Easter Eggers. 23 hatched

it does give me a glimmer of hope thanks.