Who has purchased eggs from ebay ? and what was your hatch rate ?

[Funky Chooks]

Thank you. You made my honeys day. He's a great photographer.

 

[GeorgRodway]

Look what I got for £5 from the market she was the last one so he said make me an offer an I add £5 and he said okay! She's brilliant with my chicks too !! Laid me 2 gorgeous pale green eggs today too!

 

[starlingdaly]

Look what I got for £5 from the market she was the last one so he said make me an offer an I add £5 and he said okay! She's brilliant with my chicks too !! Laid me 2 gorgeous pale green eggs today too!

TWO eggs in one day?? :O

 

[starlingdaly]

The curled toe chick worked her toes out by herself in the hatcher.
Unfortunately my third chick hatched but did not survive long after she fluffed up. There was a strange bubble around her umbilical cord area.

I candled the remaining eggs and only one is showing signs of movement. I will keep the rest I just in case but if looks like at best I will have 3 hatch out of 12. Not unreasonable, but probably not worth the $35.

I met someone on here who knows a local person who sells chicks of the breed I'm hatching and I will probably pick some up since this particular hatch has been a bit of a bust.

I've still got 8/14 Cream Legbars going.
Hard to tell with the BCMs but 2/12 from one seller are possibly developing. The other set of 15 BCMs could have ALL developing except one but it is of course super hard to tell with those dark shells!

My laced lavender orpington eggs are 4/8 right now. Those eggs were shipped on a plane.

Hatch is over with only two chicks. The last egg pipped in the middle of the egg and drowned in it's own egg yolk
Very sad.
I have two lively blue or black chicks though! They are doing great and will make wonderful additions to the flock if they survive to adulthood!

Round two starts this weekend with my CLs and BCMs. Let the suspense begin!!

 

[GeorgRodway]

TWO eggs in one day?? :O

Yes she laid me one this morning and one this evening ! Was such a shock when I went to change her water, they are a gorgeous pale green ! How are your chicks doing any more pips ?

 

[pickitfarm]

George she is a pretty little thing. A momma that gives you breakfast. Superb!

 

[kodster]

Good queston
Quote: If they've got deformities like you're reporting, more than likely it's genetic, from the parents' stock, not the fact that they're shipped eggs or temperatures.

 

[starlingdaly]

Yes she laid me one this morning and one this evening ! Was such a shock when I went to change her water, they are a gorgeous pale green ! How are your chicks doing any more pips ?

Definitely a keeper!!
Wish I had a hen that served me breakfast AND dinner! ;D

I must've posted my update about the same time you posted. It's just above your last post.

Sadly, in the end, I only got 2 chicks out of 18 eggs, paid for 12. Cost wise these two cost $17.50 a piece. A little too much for my taste, but it would still be more expensive from MPC especially with the cost of shipping. So not all bad.

 

[starlingdaly]

If they've got deformities like you're reporting, more than likely it's genetic, from the parents' stock, not the fact that they're shipped eggs or temperatures.

Perhaps the parent flock has some inbreeding going on.
I did eggtopsy and unless underbites are what happens when a chick drowns... Looks like that would've been a deformity for four of them had they hatched (or perhaps the underbite prevented them from pipping!)
I did also notice that every chick who died in shell was positioned strangely so had they been able to pip it would've been in the middle of the egg, not in the air cell.
I've not eggtopsied such fully developed chicks before. Is it normal for them to have one foot curled up and the other outstretched completely? This was a common theme in all eggtopsied today.

 

[GeorgRodway]

Definitely a keeper!!
Wish I had a hen that served me breakfast AND dinner! ;D

I must've posted my update about the same time you posted. It's just above your last post.

Sadly, in the end, I only got 2 chicks out of 18 eggs, paid for 12. Cost wise these two cost $17.50 a piece. A little too much for my taste, but it would still be more expensive from MPC especially with the cost of shipping. So not all bad.

Tell me about it i was shocked my self, she is such a pretty bird too, and shes good with my chicks tells them off every now and again but what hen doesnt ? me too I bought 22 eggs from eBay totalling around £50 so I paid £25 per chick as i only had 2 hatch, so i bought 6 more day old chicks, but I've had one die this morning upsetting but he was a roo. but out of the 8 chicks I have 6 are pullets and well I think that's a pretty good percentage of pullets. So I'm happy but in glad you got 2 chicks rather than none at all, what bator do you use ?