The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

[jsdeslidingh]

Attempted sexing my chicks by picking them up by their neck scruff....results were 7 Roos and 12 hens....19 hatched out of 48 eggs, 37 of them were shipped....I am pleased, I just hope I got my hens right.

 

[randerson846]

Can i join in i have 3duck eggs in the incubator (been in 1 day) and in a week i am putting in 28 shipped eggs and 18 eggs i got from a friend, so in total 3 duck eggs and 46 chicken eggs to hatch on the 20th of may

The back ones are the shipped eggs, so the green eggs are from a columbine hen, blue from cream legbar, chocolate from a welsummer, white from a leghorn. the light browns are from warrens, bluebelles, light sussex, or black rock. these hens are all feee ranged with several cockerels - welsummer, silver laced wyandotte, cream legbar and burford brown, so who the father is of each egg is anyone's guess!
The front ones are from my friend, he gave me a big mix, i think i have a few speckled sussex, a few light sussex, a few silkies (hope those hatch ) and i cant remember the rest

 

[bamadude]

Not only can u join... u can be our new secretary at arms. Although i just got here.

 

[bamadude]

I want some fertile cream legbar eggs in a couple weeks

 

[randerson846]

Not only can u join... u can be our new secretary at arms. Although i just got here.

What ahah ?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I HATE USPS tracking. It's almost pointless.

lol my room candler said it was still in Florida but showed up today

I shipped 2 boxes of eggs the same time to the same person. One arrived Monday and one Tuesday. hmmm

 

[bamadude]

I can hardly wait to be able to hatch. I want an egg basket with every color possible.

 

[Pozees]

lol my room candler said it was still in Florida but showed up today

I shipped 2 boxes of eggs the same time to the same person. One arrived Monday and one Tuesday. hmmm

I had two boxes shipped from the same person, same time, one took two days and one took six.

Today I received two boxes from a keeper in NC, shipped Monday, his PO had strapped each box into one of those corrugated plastic carriers. Boxes in pristine condition, eggs in great shape. Too many to set in the Brinsea for a couple of days before moving to the Sportsman, so I will let them settle unincubated until tomorrow night and then set in Sportsman.

BTW, candled the 8 intact eggs of the mangled shipment from someone else in a different NC location tonight, one appears to be developing.

Whenever you have some more White Empordanesa eggs (or Penes) available for sale I'd like to try either the incubate one day then ship experiment, or the wrap middle in slightly damp paper towel before bubble wrap recommended to me by another high altitude hatcher. Only going to hatch another month or so, July through September are so hot I plan to shut down all the incubators those three months, with the possible exception of running the Brinsea for my own Silkies and Ameraucanas. I have been hatching virtually nonstop the last 14 months, trying to get technique perfected, equipment dialed in, and building my flocks, and it is nearly time for a break to focus on structures and gardens.

Edited because I could not spell damp evidently LOL

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I had two boxes shipped from the same person, same time, one took two days and one took six.

Today I received two boxes from a keeper in NC, shipped Monday, his PO had strapped each box into one of those corrugated plastic carriers. Boxes in pristine condition, eggs in great shape. Too many to set in the Brinsea for a couple of days before moving to the Sportsman, so I will let them settle unincubated until tomorrow night and then set in Sportsman.

BTW, candled the 8 intact eggs of the mangled shipment from someone else in a different NC location tonight, one appears to be developing.

Whenever you have some more White Empordanesa eggs (or Penes) available for sale I'd like to try either the incubate one day then ship experiment, or the wrap middle in slightly damp paper towel before bubble wrap recommended to me by another high altitude hatcher. Only going to hatch another month or so, July through September are so hot I plan to shut down all the incubators those three months, with the possible exception of running the Brinsea for my own Silkies and Ameraucanas. I have been hatching virtually nonstop the last 14 months, trying to get technique perfected, equipment dialed in, and building my flocks, and it is nearly time for a break to focus on structures and gardens.

Edited because I could not spell damp evidently LOL

I can ship some Saturday am if you want. I have 2 incubators going one with crele penedesenca from a friend the other with black penedesenca from someone else. Since I only had a dozen of each I filled in the rest with Empordanesa. I really would like for more people to raise them. They are a super breed and need the help. They are one of the rarest breeds in the States and you don't have to pay a fortune to get eggs

 

[ladycat]

I ordered some priority mail boxes and other supplies from the USPS.com store 6 weeks ago and still don't have them. I don't remember them ever taking so long to get here!!

I'm going to reorder in case they lost my order or something.