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[RedReiner]

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wow no posts in almost 2 hours!!!
hey thats a really cool looking paint job. nice!!!!!

Thanks, yeah, he's pretty cool. I've got 3 partridge pullets growing up to be his harem...trying to make more like him.

lol I have a partridge english orp

well 3/4's of it is partridge...I think!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

My new bunnies are home and all settled in their new hutch:

"Nick" and "Nack"....

 

[Breshcandra]

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Cute bunnies, clover

 

[broodytood]

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Welcome to the Wa thread!!! I love Orps but am not experienced... yet!

 

[broodytood]

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Ohhh, don't get me started! I'm still trying to fight off the urge to get ducks!!!

 

[monicas]

ok you egg shipping wizards, I need help.

I have ordered plenty of eggs online and recieved them both scrambled and not. I used what I thought were the best of my non scrambled examples to ship some this week. I thought I had learned enough to try shipping a few eggs.

FAIL!
Of the two boxes I shipped
One box had a deep dent in one side and 9 of 24 eggs were broken leaving 15 of the 18 the purchaser paid for.

The other box had no serious visible exterior damage but the receiver reports that we lost 9 of 18 eggs. This box was packed inside a large box with crumpled heavy paper, with two smaller boxes with two sets of eggs. one set of eggs was in bubble wrap sleeves. the other was in gauze with tape around the outside. the bubble wrapped eggs stayed intact. Some of the gauzed eggs broke and coated other gauzed eggs with stinky egg goo thus ruining all 9 in the box.

For you experts: What is the IDEAL way of shipping eggs. becuase if I don't get substantially better results next try, I'm going be too discouraged to try this again. and I get to try again this week because I'm going to replace the eggs shipped to the second person above.

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Hey--I just noticed your avatar!

What a sexy little pair THAT is!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I use the 7 x 7 x 6 USPS Priority boxes. They can fit up to 9 eggs (I only sell mine in lots of 6+)

I use bubble wrap on the bottom of the box.

Then I wrap each egg in 1/2 a sheet of paper towel and put them into an egg carton, fat end up. The egg carton has been cut in half.

Then I put the eggs in the box, on the bubble wrap. I then shove as many plastic grocery bags around the sides of the eggs as possible and then wad up a bunch to put over the top. I mark all sides of the box and the top with:

FRAGILE, LIVE HATCHING EGGS, PROTECT FROM HEAT & COLD.

So far, so good....only the occasional crack if any....

 

[monicas]

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I use the 7 x 7 x 6 USPS Priority boxes. They can fit up to 9 eggs (I only sell mine in lots of 6+)

I use bubble wrap on the bottom of the box.

Then I wrap each egg in 1/2 a sheet of paper towel and put them into an egg carton, fat end up. The egg carton has been cut in half.

Then I put the eggs in the box, on the bubble wrap. I then shove as many plastic grocery bags around the sides of the eggs as possible and then wad up a bunch to put over the top. I mark all sides of the box and the top with:

FRAGILE, LIVE HATCHING EGGS, PROTECT FROM HEAT & COLD.

So far, so good....only the occasional crack if any....

Thank you. I will get this right. I will.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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What kind of roo was he? I wonder if it's just him or if all roos like him are quiet? Sounds cute!!

I just put him in my avatar - I think he has a little frostbite on the tips of his comb. He's a bantam cochin - RFF called the pair Calico Bantam Cochins; not sure if it is the same as Mille fleur, but I do know they are really cute! I have a few eggs that I want to hatch (or find someone to hatch them for me). I have 2 semi-broody hens, but I don't think I will trust them with these eggs. Wish I knew if they were fertile, my roo does not seem to get much action. Maybe he doesn't have much of an Oedipus Complex. I was looking at RFF's website, and I think they may be mother and son, either that or she has another similar looking roo.

These are calicos....and not closely related. Harriet is actually a year older than the rooster. I sold their latest "son" to someone else on the BYC boards at the show in Monroe. The one you're seeing on my website in the photo gallery is one of my first hatches from Harriet and Rufus. I sold him last fall. I have two breeding pens of bantam cochins...one was calicos and one was milles. Now I have two pens of milles and I've sold all of my calico birds.

Here are a few photos of my foundation roos....and no, the white one didn't count. I had a neighbor buy him at the 4-H auction from a little girl (he was fair champion) because he felt sorry for the little girl....then he brought him home to me! LOL I ended up selling him to another little 4-H girl.

Anyway, the one on my website that looks similar to the roo you bought is picture here, but he had more black in his hackles, and man was he RUDE!

You can see Harriet here--I had them all running together for a while in the winter....

Oh and this is Rufus. I sold him to someone in Oregon.