Totally frustrated.....These can't be Welsummer eggs!!!!

[okiechick57]

:aww Girl I am SO sorry..........geesh............I would love to be able to trust everyone .........hope they refund you......... You WILL get eggs from me......course they will all be mutts.........but good mutts

 

[tiki244]

I wonder if there is anything you can do about misrepresenting what they sell

 

[BirdBrain]

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I have just been at the Stromberg's site and it looks like their minimum is 15 eggs, so it does look like they sent one extra, but that is not what I hear other breeders do. I think you usually have atleast a couple extra.

Yes, the egg color is very disappointing. I hope you can get some resolution tomorrow.

 

[EweSheep]

Those egg colors are very disappointing and my Wellies dont lay like that light of a color either. They would start off very dark and throughout the laying season, it gets a little lighter and toward to the end, they would lay light like your red sexlink color.

I would be very disappointed and hope you will get a refund but I dont hope out too much because it is Welsummer and that is what you ordered.

Stromsberg is pretty pricey on their things but Mothergoose got some excellent Welsummers and I got a few from her stock.

This is Summer

One of the eggs is a Black Maran (pinkish brown egg) and other one is Christie's brown egg

 

[Wildsky]

Wow Ewesheep - thats what I want my egg basket to look like - I LOVE all the different colors!

 

[d_rooster]

I would recommend that you set at least 4 or 5 of the darkest eggs from what you were sent. Hatch them and see what breed you get. If they hatch out looking like something other than Welsummers then you will have a pretty good case for getting your money back. Who knows? You may have gotten something other than Welsummers that is rare or interesting.

 

[Poison Ivy]

That happen to me with eggs I bought my MPC it was a mix up but didn't know it till they started to hatch. I was thinking delaware but out popped dominique chicks. But I called and spoke to Tracy and she gave me a refund. But it does happen hope you get it all worked out.

 

[tiffanyh]

be sure to let us know how this gets resolved!

 

[ksacres]

I would set them too, it's not the unborn chickies fault! Can't waste them, that's my motto!

And someone else made a good point, if you hatch out some chicks, you can PROVE they sent the wrong eggs (if they did), if you don't hatch them, you can't prove it, as there's no way to tell what's inside an egg until it hatches.

As a side note, Stromberg's claims to breed for exhibition quality stock, meaning egg laying sometimes goes by the wayside. If these turn out to be Welsummers, and you get some dark egg laying genes to go with them, they could end up being useful to you.

 

[jeaucamom]

I called this morning to follow up and they said, they don't raise the birds there so they don't know what Welsummer eggs were supposed to look like, they are waiting to hear back from the breeder, and that the breeder and the owner were going to chat and "let me know what they thought". It didn't sound very good to me, so I forwarded that pic of Welsummer eggs to them to give them something to compare them to.

I am over my intense frustration from yesterday and I will set them. It is just frustrating because they take up space and screw up my coordinated hatch. So even if I can replace them, they will have to go in a seperate hatch. AHHHH!!!!

Here's hoping that Stromberg's pulls through. I told her I was part of BYC and that thousands of members from all over the world were watching this. How was that for pressure????

KSACRES, I agree with you that these are real chicks and not "just eggs" and that is one of the reasons I hesitated to get into hatching in the first place because of all the life that is at stake. I really shouldn't have even thought about not setting. Sorry.