shipping eggs and Ebay feedback

[SundownWaterfowl]

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Yes, she did. Three or four places.

I never write that on the box. It almost always assures that the eggs get tossed around or x-rayed. I only write it if the buyer requests it. Otherwise my eggs always arrive better when I dont write anything on the box. Some post office worker will she fragile eggs and start shaking the box around.

 

[Their Other Mother]

I have ordered 2 sets of eggs from e-bay this year.
#1 was 4 goose eggs; each egg came individually wrapped in bubble wrap then in a large box filled with styro peanuts. No broken eggs but only 1 hatched.

#2 was 24 suprise eggs: 1 paper carton lined with paper towling contained 12 chicken eggs, 3 broken, 2 of those were really smashed the other just cracked. Another paper carton with 12 duck eggs only 1 cracked. 4 trukey eggs wrapped in bubble wrap none broken. Both the cartons were then put into a medium sized box filled with styro peanuts and the turkey eggs were in the middle of everything. She sent 4 extras for breakage which was nice and exactly what broke.
Now as far as hatching, none of the turkey eggs even started to incubate, after 20 days, just yolk. So the question is were they even fertile or did I mess something up in incubation or was shipping too much? Of the 12 chicken eggs, I have 4 left in the incubator, it's day 22 and I'm seeing no movement. I pulled one egg this am who had a moving viable chick on day 18 when I increased humidity but with no movement at all today so I candled it and nothing- opened it and it was dead. The other 3 are probably the same I'm thinking.

As for the ducks, there are 6 eggs still in the incubator but I only see definate movement in 2 at day 22. the other 5 never even started to incubate were just yolk when I removed them over the last few weeks.

Because this was such a bad hatch I'm wanting more eggs but the heat is now here in AZ and I don't want to risk the little guys having heat stroke. So the big decision is to I buy live chicks from a hatchery now or wait untill the weather cools or even next year?

 

[AussieSharon]

Shipping eggs is rough on the eggs. Even eggs wrapped so there should be no way they will break can still break. Not having a single egg develop probably means it was xrayed.

I've bought eggs and had zero develop and had other shipped eggs that the hatch rate was awesome. It's very hit and miss on shipped eggs unfortunately.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Their Other Mother

I would check with your local extension office for locals with chickens to see if they have any chicks available instead of going with a hatchery right now, only because if your temps are that high what will it do to live chicks in the mail. I also contacted a local chicken club and got some names of people raising the breeds I wanted and called and made arrangements for local eggs. I have to say that my shipped eggs did just as good as my local eggs on my first hatch actually they did better.

Duckyboys

I would let the lady know what was broke and go from there. That is what I did when mine came broke. I had 4 out of 24 broke and no extra's had been sent. I let her know and she offered to send more but I told her no I just wanted her to know that they were broke. I think she packages different now. Good luck with your hatch.

 

[pips&peeps]

Was the box smashed at all? If not, then she did a poor job of packing the eggs.

I would let her know that five of them are cracked and that you are not happy with it.

Don't ask for anything, just see how she responds.

I have shipped over 65 boxes of eggs this year alone. I have only had two cracked eggs and that box was smashed beyond belief. The lady was shocked to find only two cracks, not smashed or broken, but cracked.

So it is possible to pack them well to get them to their destination.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

Eggs should ALWAYS be shipped in bubble wrap individually wrapped and then wrapped again in bubble wrap. Paper towel is not going to protect them. I would as for a refund of the eggs that broke. I received a shipment of nine and all but one (it was infertile) are are growing well inegg now

good luck! Next time you order from ebay i would ask that they wrap them all individually in bubble wrap and not put in an egg carton.

You also want to ask that they wrap them in tin foil to be sure to protect them against the xray machine if they are xrayed!

 

[Broke Down Ranch]

I would leave bad feedback and mention that the eggs were broken. The eggs should be individually bubble wraped, and lots of packing material used, like crumpled newspaper. The eggs shouldnt be wrapped with papertowels and stuck in an egg carton, of course they will arrive broken. I would say 1 or 2 broken is the average, but not 5. That is half of your shipment. I would contact her and tell her what happened.

Wow, that's pretty harsh to just dump bad feedback without seeing if the seller will replace the broken eggs. I have shipped LOTS of eggs wrapped in tissue then in an egg carton surrounded by crumpled newspaper and had them arrive in perfect shape. Her packing was probably adequate (just) and the P.O. just played hockey with the box.


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You can have the box covered with red blinking neon signs screaming how fragile the contents are and you will still get folks that don't give a flip. Sometimes I think there are folks that LOOK for the ones marked "fragile" just so they can make someone as miserable as they are....




DuckyBoys, contact the seller and let her/him know how many eggs broke and that you would appreciate replacements. If she won't replace teh broken ones then I would leave the negative feedback.​

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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Wow, that's pretty harsh to just dump bad feedback without seeing if the seller will replace the broken eggs. I have shipped LOTS of eggs wrapped in tissue then in an egg carton surrounded by crumpled newspaper and had them arrive in perfect shape. Her packing was probably adequate (just) and the P.O. just played hockey with the box.


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You can have the box covered with red blinking neon signs screaming how fragile the contents are and you will still get folks that don't give a flip. Sometimes I think there are folks that LOOK for the ones marked "fragile" just so they can make someone as miserable as they are....




DuckyBoys, contact the seller and let her/him know how many eggs broke and that you would appreciate replacements. If she won't replace teh broken ones then I would leave the negative feedback.

I said to contact the seller and tell her what happened. I would leave bad feedback beacause her shipping method was bad, except now buyers can only leave positive feedback because of the new changes.
I also said that I do think that the workers look for the fragile boxes and shake them around. That is why I dot NOT label my boxes, UNLESS the buyer requests it.

 

[Broke Down Ranch]

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Yes, she did. Three or four places.

I never write that on the box. It almost always assures that the eggs get tossed around or x-rayed. I only write it if the buyer requests it. Otherwise my eggs always arrive better when I dont write anything on the box. Some post office worker will she fragile eggs and start shaking the box around.

hahaha, you posted this before I saw....you are very right about marking the box fragile. But, I have had people get all in a tizzy if I didn't then I get blamed if they have a poor hatch....so sometimes as a seller you're danged if you do and danged if you don't

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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The most I've ever gotten broken was the entire box...I think there were six or seven. The last eggs I got (Spitz) there was one cracked one out of 18. I'd say that I'd email her & let her know...