The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

[hildar]

I went through a breeder in Florida last year the hatch rate the first time was 5 in 48 the second time was 2 in 48 and then she sent me 60 to replace what didn't hatch and none hatched I paid out about $600 for all those eggs and my chicks were the most expensive chickens that I own now.

Luckily I then put my own eggs in so I would have some food for the winter months, and I had 43 out of 48 hatch out.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Well, since you only ordered 12 eggs and got 7 chicks I guess that's pretty good for shipped eggs.

It's the fact that I sent 19 eggs and only 7 hatched that makes me frustrated with USPS. If you had gotten them quick, you might have had a dozen or more hatch.

I'll let you know as soon as I have eggs from the other bloodline ready to sell.

I feel lucky if i get half of the eggs I get in the mail to hatch

 

[ladycat]

I feel lucky if i get half of the eggs I get in the mail to hatch

But presumably you get them 2 - 3 days after they're shipped.

Me too, BTW, if half the shipped eggs hatch for me, I'm very happy. Seems like 30 to 40 % is usually about as good as it gets.

That's why I prefer chicks whenever possible, but most breeders don't ship chicks, and of those who do, some of them charge an arm and a leg for them! I'm not rich, I have to take what I can get.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

But presumably you get them 2 - 3 days after they're shipped.

Me too, BTW, if half the shipped eggs hatch for me, I'm very happy. Seems like 30 to 40 % is usually about as good as it gets.

That's why I prefer chicks whenever possible, but most breeders don't ship chicks, and of those who do, some of them charge an arm and a leg for them! I'm not rich, I have to take what I can get.

thats the reason i don't ship chicks. its one thing if eggs get lost. another if chicks do

 

[hildar]

But presumably you get them 2 - 3 days after they're shipped.

Me too, BTW, if half the shipped eggs hatch for me, I'm very happy. Seems like 30 to 40 % is usually about as good as it gets.

That's why I prefer chicks whenever possible, but most breeders don't ship chicks, and of those who do, some of them charge an arm and a leg for them! I'm not rich, I have to take what I can get.

This is true. When I do all of my calculations on what we will have for the end of the year. I always figure we will end up with around 1/3 of the shipped eggs hatching. Anything over that to me is a miracle. It's just a disappointment when you get 1% or 2% to hatch.

 

[Alaskan]

This is REALLY getting to me....

Here I am, having eggs shipped to me..... and the USPS tracking is TERRIBLE! They scan the package only every few days.... Really? What is up with that?

I have some quail eggs that were scanned in North Houston on the 20th right before 2pm, and nothing since.

My last eggs were the same way, nothing, nothing, nothing, then they suddenly appeared in town.

 

[ladycat]

I HATE USPS tracking. It's almost pointless.

 

[bamadude]

This is REALLY getting to me....

Here I am, having eggs shipped to me..... and the USPS tracking is TERRIBLE! They scan the package only every few days.... Really? What is up with that?

I have some quail eggs that were scanned in North Houston on the 20th right before 2pm, and nothing since.

My last eggs were the same way, nothing, nothing, nothing, then they suddenly appeared in town.

pretty brave shipping eggs to alaska...fingers crossed for u.

 

[Alaskan]

This is REALLY getting to me....

Here I am, having eggs shipped to me..... and the USPS tracking is TERRIBLE! They scan the package only every few days.... Really? What is up with that?

I have some quail eggs that were scanned in North Houston on the 20th right before 2pm, and nothing since.

My last eggs were the same way, nothing, nothing, nothing, then they suddenly appeared in town.

pretty brave shipping eggs to alaska...fingers crossed for u.

Actually, this is #5 for shipped eggs for me. The first four sets are in the incubator, and only the first set had any mushed eggs, the other three were perfct, no cracks etc.

At this point set one and set two have lots of little chicks forming (so, so far so good ) sets 3 and 4 were put in over the weekend, so I am not going to try to look at those until next Monday(OK, maybe I will peak tomorrow).

Anyway, my point is... Shipped eggs to Alaska hasn't been anywhere near as bad as I thought it would be.

 

[bamadude]

Awesome...alaskan. I plan to start trying to incubate soon. Its good to know of ur success with shipped eggs. One day i may want some of those greenfire ayam camani eggs lol.