Shipped eggs arrived, ALL with detached air cells

[jossanne]

Hi Chotii, I got my shipped silkie eggs yesterday. Like yours, they were very well packaged, but they must have had a rough trip. They only took two days from Pennsylvania to New Mexico, but at least 5, maybe 6, have detached air cells. I set them under my broody this morning, with my fingers crossed.

The last eggs that I had shipped were a dozen silkie eggs from Utah to NM, taking 3 days in the system. I was out of town when they arrived, so I had a friend get them from the post office and set them under the broody while I was gone. So I didn't candle them before I set them, and they came from the P.O. straight to the nest box. I don't know if any had detached air cells or not, but I'm sure some did. I candled once or twice during incubation to check for growth, and ended up with 8 out of 12 hatching. Out of the 4 that didn't hatch, 3 showed no development and 1 was a fully developed chick that didn't hatch. I thought that was pretty good to have 75% development and 67% hatch with shipped eggs.

Anyway... I'm just crossing my fingers that my current eggs hatch me a few babies. I'm thinking that I had a good hatch rate last time, with eggs with possible loose air cells, so I'm just hoping for the best this time.

Good luck to you and me both!

 

[bandbaustin]

good luck, just had same experience. HAd 16 melanistic pheasant eggs through mail. PAckaged good but none hatched, I was upset cause they were form a good line too.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

I have eggs that were shipped and not one of them is developing. This has never happened to me before. I have always had some kind of development and have never complained. But not one of these are good. What would you do?

 

[milleryardchx]

A little while ago there was a post that someone had eggs with detatched airsacs and they hatched the babies in an egg carton so the airsac would stay at the big end of the egg just stopped turning at day 18. That might work I haven't tested this yet.

 

[PeepsInc]

I found that when seller mark the box "LIVE ANIMAL, HATCHING EGGS". The post people generally handle with care.

 

[onthespot]

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I would tell the seller, just for their information. If they were packed badly I would let them know that too.

I would not expect a refund nor replacement for cost of shipping. Some sellers offer that out of the goodness of their hearts, but it is not common practice. Sorry about your zero development.

I can't tell you how often that has happened to me this year on eggs I paid a LOT for. Sometimes $60, sometime $99, $30... With shipped eggs you are completely gambling your money, just like scratcher tickets. If you get one that's a dud you don't go back to 7-11 and ask for a refund...

It is just so frustrating as a buyer. Sometimes shipping eggs is the only way you can get the quality of birds you want. Sometimes this just isn't your year. This is DEFINITLEY NOT my year for Welsummers, BLRW, Tolbunt Polish, Sebastopol Geese, Silver Laced Wyandotte, buff silkies or a blue or splash copper marans rooster.

 

[isadream]

How do you use an egg carton to hold the eggs up? Do I need to cut the bottom out? I have bantie eggs. I want the best possible chance of the eggs hatching.


Thanks,

Renee

 

[onthespot]

Here is a link to a thread about it.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2379718

I also hatched shipped eggs with damaged air cells under a (first time) broody! It was my olive egger hen and these were my lavender orp eggs and i just didn't have my skills down yet for styrofoam incubators so I let her set them for 20 days and pulled them last minute and hatched them out in my bedroom in a Hovabator! Hey, a gal's gotta do what a gal's gotta do. I had been selling my olive egger eggs in the crazy 24 hour auction thread and the girl I was owing olive eggs to was so nice about it when I explained why I had let her go broody. She let me send later. I sent her CBM eggs too as a thanks! I got a GREAT hatch with the broody on those eggs, even the few that had damaged air cells.