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It seems I was AWOL for Michele's birthday.
Happy birthday @The Farmers' Daughter

And Happy Birthday today Renè!

JaeG said:
Send some heat south would you? It's a cold, windy, sometimes rainy day at my end of the world.
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You would hit a world record high if everyone here sent just the part of their temperature that is above 100°F (37.8°C) ;)

drstratton said:
so I decided to give mine to him
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That was very generous! Does he have other chickens to keep her company?

ronott1 said:
We may be seeing the end of shipped chicks
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That would be the end of a lot of hatcheries.

Curious isn't it that the P.O. workers are considered "essential" and have had to work through the pandemic risking their health and that of their families coming into daily contact with all manner of people yet there are those that don't think it is worth keeping afloat. It is all funded by sales of "product", no USPS line item in the federal budget.
 
bruceha2000 said:
It seems I was AWOL for Michele's birthday.
Happy birthday @The Farmers' Daughter

And Happy Birthday today Renè!


You would hit a world record high if everyone here sent just the part of their temperature that is above 100°F (37.8°C) ;)


That was very generous! Does he have other chickens to keep her company?


That would be the end of a lot of hatcheries.

Curious isn't it that the P.O. workers are considered "essential" and have had to work through the pandemic risking their health and that of their families coming into daily contact with all manner of people yet there are those that don't think it is worth keeping afloat. It is all funded by sales of "product", no USPS line item in the federal budget.
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Thank you Bruce! 😊

They have 5 other hens, so she won't be alone...I'm just concerned with how well she will integrate into the flock...she's very timid!

Sadly the usps has been very poorly run for a long time...ie... the deal they made with Amazon is a huge money loser, but on the flipside it's been good for the consumer. They have however done a good job in shipping chickens, it's really sad that so many died!
 
igorsMistress said:
Were your eggs shipped by land or air Jae? Just curious. I've had eggs shipped within our own state and had 100% hatch. Those that had to fly cross country I'm running about 50% on average. That's actually pretty average from what I've read.
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They would have been flown up as they came from the bottom of the south island. It was also a toss up between getting them delivered to my parents in town who were coming up on the weekend, so the eggs would have been more than a week old (which is what I did do), or getting them delivered here which means they are in the postal system a little longer as we are rural, and it's potentially a much rougher trip as the rural postie delivers along gravel roads as well as paved. The air cells on them were good, but that could have been from resting for 4 days at my parents (under strict instructions to tip them back and forth twice a day).
 
drstratton said:
the deal they made with Amazon is a huge money loser
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I do not believe that is the case. I know the prez said they lose money on every shipment but that is totally false. Every package Amazon drops off at a PO for the "last mile" is money in the USPS coffers. The USPS carrier is already going to or past that address anyway. Same thing with the packages UPS drops off at a PO.
 
JaeG said:
They would have been flown up as they came from the bottom of the south island. It was also a toss up between getting them delivered to my parents in town who were coming up on the weekend, so the eggs would have been more than a week old (which is what I did do), or getting them delivered here which means they are in the postal system a little longer as we are rural, and it's potentially a much rougher trip as the rural postie delivers along gravel roads as well as paved. The air cells on them were good, but that could have been from resting for 4 days at my parents (under strict instructions to tip them back and forth twice a day).
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Oh wow, I would have done the same. Flying and then bouncing about wouldn't be a good combination.
 
Good morning everyone, happy Friday!

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