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ronott1 said:
Quote: Wow what a lot of info. I'm sure you put a lot of effort into planning and wording this. As one who has only received shipped eggs a few times, I learned a lot mainly about days to ship on. Please take the following with a grain of salt. I would try to make the request shorter or more concise, people love to skim. Maybe bold the positive value lines eg The best shipping days are.... Then possibly try starting each numbered point off with the positive value statement and closing each point with a feel good statement as well. A happy buttered up egg shipper is more likely to send the best eggs on the best day than a grumpy pants who got offended skimming your preferences. Lastly, I'm thinking a washing sanding of eggs point would be worth adding. I know I don't want dirty or washed eggs. Thanks for letting me know I could ask to be able to pick up the eggs too. I know there is a egg killer somewhere near me in the PO system and eliminating one or more handlers might help.
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catdaddyfro said:
Steven Gribble(sgribble on here) in Ga. has good "real" RIRs or Matt(Matt1616) in Ala. I'd try to get some juvies from them before I'd go thru the trouble and expense of dealing with Ebay auctions J/S and shipped eggs.

Jeff
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I hatched 6 cockerels and 4 pullets from a dozednshipped eggs from Ron Fogel. If the shipper uses the skyline packing method, which there is a link to in my post several above this one, you can get birds like the ones I posted today.

I was on a website recently and the comment was something like: We are no longer shipping live birds because USPS is killing them. We are only shipping hatching eggs because they do better.

Ten very nice HRIRs for the low cost that Ron Fogel charges is amazing and a great deal. If the Ebay seller is a known breeder then they may very well be worth trying.

He has 100% positive feed back which is a good sign.
 
SallyinIndiana said:
Wow what a lot of info. I'm sure you put a lot of effort into planning and wording this. As one who has only received shipped eggs a few times, I learned a lot mainly about days to ship on. Please take the following with a grain of salt. I would try to make the request shorter or more concise, people love to skim. Maybe bold the positive value lines eg The best shipping days are.... Then possibly try starting each numbered point off with the positive value statement and closing each point with a feel good statement as well. A happy buttered up egg shipper is more likely to send the best eggs on the best day than a grumpy pants who got offended skimming your preferences. Lastly, I'm thinking a washing sanding of eggs point would be worth adding. I know I don't want dirty or washed eggs. Thanks for letting me know I could ask to be able to pick up the eggs too. I know there is a egg killer somewhere near me in the PO system and eliminating one or more handlers might help.
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I give credit to Oz expat for the information about egg shipping. Yes, condense it and use the parts you like. Also, it might help you to have hatching eggs shipped express. It is more expensive but might cut out the egg killer.
 
ronott1 said:
I give credit to Oz expat for the information about egg shipping. Yes, condense it and use the parts you like. Also, it might help you to have hatching eggs shipped express. It is more expensive but might cut out the egg killer.
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Yes insist on this option as the flat rate method didn't work so well for the ones I got. I had a very poor hatch rate (2/14) and these were expensive enough/rare and just the price of them plus I couldn't help but feel horrible for the loss of the potential chicks from such nonsense(the USPS) it looked as if they had played a quarter or two of tackle football with the package much less the mess I saw upon the opening of the package, but I chalked that one down in the lessons learned dept.(hard knox/literally) He's in Ga. already it would behoove him to take a trip to either of those guys place and get some good birds for a for sure, for sure kinda deal is all I was going on about.

Jeff
 
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We've beaten this subject to death, I suppose. But even with the Skyline method, the method I personally use as well, the hatching rates on shipped eggs is always uncertain. Some times the hatch rates are almost as good as gathering from your own coop.

Sometimes, and I'll add from our experience, the rates are dismal. Truly dismal. With all things being equal. That's the frustrating part. When it works? It is as Ron says, an inexpensive way of sending/getting chicks. The X factor is the USPS and sometimes an examination of the eggs contents shows they've been shook to death, scrambled on the inside.

I try to be honest and say openly. It's a crap shoot. Quote Clint Eastwood. "Are ya feeling lucky?"
 
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