Want to ship eggs to my daughter.

[chickinlittles]

Hi my daughter lives in San Fransisco , Im in San Diego, and I would like to ship her eggs. I've looked on Amazon but nothing really looks quite right. I have a mixed flock and some eggs will be large or possibly extra large. Anyone have any good shipping egg products I can check out? thanks!

 

[hysop]

Check to see if you need a license to ship eggs in your state unless you're just going to do it low key lol.

Bubble wrap and tape works well.

I've never shipped eggs before, but I found this article that seems pretty interesting

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/wrapping-packing-eggs.48402/

 

[nao57]

Well I've seen eggs that are mailed, because I've bought them before.

As far as it goes, what they do is individually wrap up the eggs in bubble wrap. They will do this until they get to almost double their size each, and then put them in a box with more bubble wrap around that.

Then mail.

Now what you want is that its not so tight that the eggs pop, but cushioned enough so that they aren't moving around. If they can shake around, or move, or roll around then they won't be viable anymore.

And you also want to mark the box fragile etc.

(I don't know if the post office will charge you extra for poultry eggs.)

However, people shipping them tend to put many fragile warnings on them.

I've seen people only put them in an egg carton, with styrofoam inserts in there before to keep them from moving around and then also bubble wrap that and send it. But that load of eggs didn't make it.

So ...basically in mailing eggs what you want to understand is that 'the enemy is movement within the box'.

But fair warning; I haven't seen a lot of eggs mailed to me work out. So maybe someone else will be able to say more than me. But on the other side also you could also have a better effectiveness by saying, OK, I know some of them won't make it, so I'll send extra to account for losses. (And that way you could make sure she gets good stuff.)

(I also don't know if you will have an easier or worse time sending eggs now when its really hot? I wonder what others might say on this?)

 

[NatJ]

I'm sure I saw a photo somewhere of eggs wrapped in disposable diapers-- each egg got its own diaper, which was wrapped around and around until it made a tidy bundle. Then the eggs were put into a box.

Unfortunately, I cannot remember where I saw it, and I don't remember all the details of how it was done.