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Well thank you
I really do love sharing my eggs. Just like with the $100.00 winning auction last month that surprised the heck out of me. I hadn't even checked it till late that night and saw how much it went for, they were for an assortment of cochin bantams. I packed up 18 eggs for them and then they contacted me about would like to buy some silkies also. I told them I had 6 and forget about paying for them after what they had bid I just included them in with the others. I then shipped them out going by their paypal address, well the next morning I had an email from them saying they forgot to tell me they were at the NC home instead of FL home and that no one would be home for several weeks there. I felt horrible for them but told them I would take care of it. I would collect over the weekend as I shipped their eggs on Saturday and ship fresh eggs out on Monday morning to NC home. I put in a request to have the eggs reversed to me. Thought it would be a good test on my packaging anyway. When I got them they had been on the road 8 days, the box was kinda crushed on one end but overall pretty good. Opening them up 3 had faint cracks that were on the end crushed but all the rest looked good with a few showing loose air cells. Again I thought I would give them a go anyway and put them in the incubator. From the 21 eggs I put in 14 showed developing at 5 days and 10 made it to lockdown and then 7 hatched. I was thrilled to have done that good with eggs that had been shipped twice and on the road 8 days! Needless to say I won't be sharing those chicks, I call them my Lucky 7
and will keep them to add to my flock. The cochin chicks were a couple of silver laced, 2 Calicos, 1 splash and 2 silkies hatched a buff and a splash. Now if only they will be all come out pullets, but I bet I won't get that lucky
Well hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I am still resting after testing way to many birds Wednesday for my NPIP re certification! I know it was way harder on me than it was the girls
Well thank you
