The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

[chickadoodles]

My newly Hatched. There are 3 Marans, 3 White Leghorns, 1 Super Blue Egg Layer, & 1 Black Australorp

Dan

They are sooooo cute! Gotta love them babies!!!!!

 

[Wisher1000]

I give mine 5 days past hatch day. I have never had any hatch past the third day after hatch day.

 

[clfromok]

Bunnymommas egg shipping experiment. (By the way-You're Awesome!)
The proof is in the noodles!
OK-
Bunnymomma shipped three boxes, @ the same time.
1st box- got smooshed on corner, but no evidence of problems. Removed stuffing/bags, unwrapped bubble wrap & removed bag wrapped around egg carton with sawdust filler. Ah-oh. Evidence of leakage.
two broken-one almost in half, one (only 1?)scrambled, some detached & several saddle air cells

Box 2-
A few scrapes dings, & again one corner smooshed(interestingly, on the corners where the fragile/live embryo-handle with care sign is affixed).
In this box is the foam tubes/noodles. Two eggs in each tube, bubble wrap on all sides. I suspiciously opened the one in the damaged corner first.
None broken!

Box 3- The least beat-up. Again bunnymomma used the noodles/foam tubes. Two eggs in each with plastic shopping bags stuffed between and on ends. None broke!

So out of 44 eggs- 2 broke, 1 scrambled, 13 detached aircells, & a few saddle air cells. The worst were in the first box. So I would say that this experiment was a success! The proof is in the noodles!
Thanks y'all.
Thank you Bunnymomma! Your generosity is unsurpassed!

 

[MeanV2]

Just candled my last shipment of 13 eggs. They had been packaged very well, no evidence of damage to the box, & none broken. The candling tonight yielded that 9 were clear and one had a blood ring. 9 were scrambled!! There was no way in Heck these eggs had a chance of hatching. Frustrating considering a person pays between $40 & $60 or more a dozen including shipping with such a low chance of having hatchable eggs arrive. IMO much cheaper to ship in the minimum number of chicks to get started and hatch your own eggs to build and maintain a flock.

I have 3 eggs left in the bator and honestly I will probably be lucky to get 1 or 2 to hatch.

Sorry just had to vent! Nobody's fault but USPS!

Dan

 

[BunnyMomma]

Hey clfromok! I will file a claim on the box with the broken eggs. It looks like they stomped that box with their big fat Postal worker boots! It is amazing to me that all of the boxes were so banged up.
I will also ship another box of surprise eggs to you, only this time I will use the Noodles! I'm so happy that the Noodles worked. I purposely did not package the box tightly inside and I left room for some dings and knocks by the PO. I'm so thankful that they arrived in such great condition. I also wanted to try the egg carton and shavings to see if it would be safe to ship those in the Priority Mail Shoe Box. NOT! No more egg cartons for me!
I wanted to add that I get the biggest kick when I see that US postal service commercial that shows the lady shipping home made jams and jellies to her customers. I wonder how many broken seals and broken jars she has to replace? I guess the PO has unlimited resources to pay all of the claims that people file on damaged items.
I'm thinking of building a giant catapult and aiming it to Oklahoma. I think the eggs might have a fighting chance in a catapult.

 

[Wisher1000]

Sorry to hear that, Dan. I know what you mean. I just can't see paying alot for eggs and knowing that there is a good chance you will not even get half of them to hatch. I would rather pay more in gas and make a trip to pick them up. Of course, that limits my choices on the quality of birds. It is a good idea to get involved in the swapping of eggs, at least if your hatch is an epic fail, you are only out eggs and postage.

 

[ronott1]

Just candled my last shipment of 13 eggs. They had been packaged very well, no evidence of damage to the box, & none broken. The candling tonight yielded that 9 were clear and one had a blood ring. 9 were scrambled!! There was no way in Heck these eggs had a chance of hatching. Frustrating considering a person pays between $40 & $60 or more a dozen including shipping with such a low chance of having hatchable eggs arrive. IMO much cheaper to ship in the minimum number of chicks to get started and hatch your own eggs to build and maintain a flock.

I have 3 eggs left in the bator and honestly I will probably be lucky to get 1 or 2 to hatch.

Sorry just had to vent! Nobody's fault but USPS!

Dan

Contact the seller--9 clears are too many--they likely were not fertile and you should get a refund or a new shipment of fertile eggs--I would get a refund and find some else for the eggs.

 

[MeanV2]

Contact the seller--9 clears are too many--they likely were not fertile and you should get a refund or a new shipment of fertile eggs--I would get a refund and find some else for the eggs.

Ron, Doesn't the fact that they were scrambled when removed from the bator and eggtopsied say it was jolts, bumps, etc, from the shipping journey? This Lady has shipped me 24 eggs. I hatched one, had a late quitter, an early quitter, one just a blood ring, and have 3 from the second shipment currently left in the bator. Lots of scrambled eggs on the rest that were eggtopsied.

Dan

 

[ronott1]

Ron, Doesn't the fact that they were scrambled when removed from the bator and eggtopsied say it was jolts, bumps, etc, from the shipping journey? This Lady has shipped me 24 eggs. I hatched one, had a late quitter, an early quitter, one just a blood ring, and have 3 from the second shipment currently left in the bator. Lots of scrambled eggs on the rest that were eggtopsied.

Dan

They will develop and then die early if they are fertile and hurt by shipping. If they do not develop they were not fertile.

Blood rings and early quitters were fertile eggs hurt by shipping. Clears=not fertile. The person you got them from needs to know so that changes can be made. I am working with a local SG Dorking Breeder and she is having me hatch by hen. Six hens with one Rooster and each hens eggs are marked. One hen had infertile eggs for two hatches. The Breeder changed things and this time all of the hens eggs are fertile and developing nicely.

Often the feathers at the vent need to be trimmed, feed needs to be changed or supplements added to increase fertility. Rooster does not like the hen and etc.

 

[MeanV2]

I am just not sure how an egg that has the yolk scrambled could ever begin to develop but maybe I just don't understand. She said she has had good hatches this spring, but I am sure things could have changed.

Dan