Stella's Social Club

[mlm Mike]

I can't believe some one would send eggs looking like that.

 

[The Sheriff]

Heard back from the seller. She requested a few days to check things out from the breeder she bought her birds from. She said they are new birds to her and still in isolation. I'll just have to be patient.

 

[drumstick diva]

good grief what next

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Heard back from the seller. She requested a few days to check things out from the breeder she bought her birds from. She said they are new birds to her and still in isolation. I'll just have to be patient.

But that doesn't explain why she would ship eggs that looked like that- rather than contacting you and explaining she wasn't comfortable shipping yet and needed to delay the order!

 

[mlm Mike]

Heard back from the seller. She requested a few days to check things out from the breeder she bought her birds from. She said they are new birds to her and still in isolation. I'll just have to be patient.

That doesn't explain why she would ship eggs in that condition. And she certainly shouldn't be selling hatching eggs from birds still in isolation.

 

[drumstick diva]

people are in such a hurry to make their investment back. I thought that was odd too, if they are in quarantine why would you save the eggs?

 

[Jake Levi]

Those eggs are from hens deficient in calcium. No excuse for it, mixing oyster shell in the feed will prevent it.

The shells develop with not enough calcium and finally get finished looking like this. Many will break when handled from not enough shell.

As I said, no excuse for it.

I also agree,that, if the hens are in quarantine shipping eggs from them invalidates that ! What the hell kind of a quarantine is that?? Keep the hens from infecting your others but ship their eggs??

Duh !

Know who you are dealing with, and deal only with them.

Time for another coffee !!

 

[speckledhen]

Those eggs are from hens deficient in calcium. No excuse for it, mixing oyster shell in the feed will prevent it.

The shells develop with not enough calcium and finally get finished looking like this. Many will break when handled from not enough shell.

As I said, no excuse for it.

I also agree,that, if the hens are in quarantine shipping eggs from them invalidates that ! What the hell kind of a quarantine is that?? Keep the hens from infecting your others but ship their eggs??

Duh !

Know who you are dealing with, and deal only with them.

Time for another coffee !!

Sorry, Jake, but I have to disagree with you. That is not a calcium issue at all, at least not fully. Hens with plenty of calcium will produce eggs that look like that if they've ever had IB or on occasion if it's just an individual thing. I have one Delaware hen who will produce good looking eggs most of the time, then suddenly, she'll produce a wrinkled, ugly one. None of them have great shell quality as she is aging now, over 4 years of age. I can't put one of hers under a broody hen because they will invariably crush under there. Never had IB here, never had anything contagious whatsoever, but it's an issue with her system. She gets plenty of calcium.

Some hens can eat calcium all day long and still produce eggs with bad shell quality because of lack of Vitamin D or other insufficiency that keeps her from utilizing the calcium that she does eat--I know because I have one hen like that as well. Conversely, when I ran out of oyster shell once for a couple of weeks, I never got one egg like those, only some that began to have thinner shells.

 

[The Sheriff]

Hi Jake. When I get slack on keeping the oyster shell calcium in the coops a few girls will lay thin shelled eggs. The eggs I got were very thick overall, they just cracked during shipment in the folds.

I'll just be happy to put this deal behind me, get my refined, and move on! It's always nice to see you and CYn here too. It's like the good old days. Oh wait, everyday is a good old day for me!

I be back later with pictures of French Vanilla Ice Cream. If I take a good one that is.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Heard back from the seller. She requested a few days to check things out from the breeder she bought her birds from. She said they are new birds to her and still in isolation. I'll just have to be patient.

That doesn't explain why she would ship eggs in that condition. And she certainly shouldn't be selling hatching eggs from birds still in isolation.

Absolutely.