I'm glad it worked out for you. As for packaging everyone says bubble wrap and shipping peanuts. I'm no longer sure that this is the best way to ship. Bubble wrap prevents the eggs from breathing and may suffocates them. I've just received a shipment that used egg cartons and pine bedding. I was first skeptical, but I'm now a believer. What the shipper did was put pine bedding into the eggs cartons as well so the eggs would not move. Then she did put pine bedding into the box nice and tight. Again no movement. My priority mail box arrived and had a 4" hole smacked in the side with a small hole in the center of it. Something punctured it while in transit. The clerk said that the sorting machines are a problem. The machines don't care for fragile stickers. Most postal clerks will handle them nicely with the stickers on, but again it is the machines. Anyway I had one broken egg where the puncture was, but best none of the other eggs were contaminated because the pine bedding absorbed the shock and the egg content. Shipping peanuts would have not done this and I would have had a mess. I wish I had taken pictures. So here is the verdict as of day 5 in the incubator. 18 eggs where shipped and one was broken. 15 eggs are showing blood vessels developing. 2 are in question, but I'm leaving them in the incubator for now. Now I call that good fertility even with bad postal treatment. Oh, I forgot to mention that the box had a postal sticker on it saying they x-rayed it. Apparently the x-rays are not a problem at all.
Katharina
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