Shipping quail eggs

[jenjscott]

Is it standard practice to ship quail eggs in the carton with nothing to keep the eggs from hitting each other? I got a carton of quail of eggs, paid for 25, carton holds 30. There were 11 broken, hopefully the others aren't cracked. The eggs were in the carton, the carton itself was double wrapped in bubble wrap and then in shredded paper. No damage to the box. The eggs were all broken with punch marks on the side where they had hit each other or the carton. This is the second batch I have got packed this way from two different shippers. Is this the standard? If I packed chicken eggs like this, I'd be sending out replacement eggs all the time.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Jen,

Sorry to hear about this. Years ago I shipped some quail eggs. Placed them, wrapped, in a chicken egg carton. Hopefully, enough will hatch to give you a start....... then in May I can get some eggs!

Note: Jen drives by our place almost daily. Already have Buckeye chicks and some assorted layers from her. Sure do want some of these Jumbo Pharoah quail if they hatch!

 

[JJMR794]

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JEN there's no accounting for other folks actions or lack of intelligence/ common sense. When i ship eggs I use either the foam shippers if i have them available, or i individually wrap each egg in bubble wrap and then place them in chicken egg cartons and pack those firmly in priority mail boxes. i have had very very few damaged upon arrival.

 

[farrier!]

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My biggest pet peeve is receiving eggs that have been allowed to rattle. Odds are you will not have any that will hatch. I have very unnice things to say when I have received expensive chicken eggs like that and then to top it off have the shipper claim it is the post office fault.

I add bubble wrap inside the quail carton and pack all eggs tight. So far I have had only one quail egg lost in shipping from all the ones I have shipped.

Unluckily it is very common to ship badly packed eggs and simply blame the post office. All the threads on shipping on here have the same comments, it is always the post office never the shippers fault. I agree with you 90% of the time it is the shipper not packing correctly, and unluckily not caring.

 

[jenjscott]

Seller has offered to replace theses eggs. Since 2 out of 3 times I received quail eggs they were packed like this (different sellers) , I wanted to make sure it wasn't standard practice before I contacted her. Thank you for your replies.