The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

[bamadude]

Lol...i hope they dont start meowing and purring

 

[chickadoodles]

Lol...i hope they dont start meowing and purring

 

[Alaskan]

 
I hope some hatch for you too.

How do the air cells look?

not too good rolling freely, but i figured there was still a chance and  I usually have fairly good luck with shipped eggs

I hatched 8 out of 9 eggs that had horrid, roll all over air cells about a month back.

What I found fascinating, is that many of those air cells turned into horrid saddle shaped things, but NO chicks needed any help hatching!

 

[Wisher1000]

That is incredible! Those chicks were still strong in spite of the trip. I wish all shipped eggs fared that well........

This past spring, I ordered Ameraucanas from a lady in Texas and paid $40, shipping and all, for 18 eggs.

The incubation was uneventful. I had a great hatch rate with the local eggs incubated in the incubator at the same time. Eight out of eighteen Ameraucanas made it to Day 18 (lockdown.) I had 6 hatch, two assisted, and two dead in the shell. I lost one that I had assisted at two days and lost three more before they left the brooder. I now have two, $20 Blue Wheaten Amerarcana pullets, but they are lovely!

In the end, a good deal, but not if I had hatched two cockerels! Still, I would do it again, from the same seller, and hope the variable would be the handling during shipping.

 

[Alaskan]

@Wisher1000 ha! I have spent SO MUCH MORE than that! Shipping alone, is usually 20 to almost 40.

I currently have $17 Americaunas, and one has duck foot.

 

[bamadude]

I just spent $85 on shipped eggs. Almost all the air cells look funky. A few have heart shaped air cells. Im probably gonna learn my lesson if these dont hatch and be done with shipped eggs.

 

[Wisher1000]

Confession time - I'm cheap! The only reason I bought these eggs was because it was a half price thing on some good quality birds that I can't get locally.
It makes my ankles pop to pay $2-$5 (or more!) per egg, knowing most will likely never hatch. And yet.......................

 

[bamadude]

I had to bribe my dw with a mexico beach trip in order to buy these eggs. Shes gonna flip out if it dont pan out

 

[Wisher1000]

Dude, I am headed to Mexico Beach right now! Yee Haaaaaa!

 

[Yoyo with chick]

Dude, I am headed to Mexico Beach right now! Yee Haaaaaa!

cool! Where In Mexico I'm there right now!