I have been shipping eggs for close to 5 years now and have packaging pretty
well in hand. I do still get the occasional
report of a broken egg but not often. Most of
my eggs go up for auction on ebay but email me and I'll do my best to fill your order.
SOME
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW about shipping eggs....
I have many breeds and literally hundreds of
birds both poultry,
turkeys, emu and pheasants...... ALL were from eggs I bought
on ebay and had shipped to me. Shipping hatching eggs WORKS....
But there are risks
that a lot of you may not have thought of that
needs to be clear before you buy anyone's
hatching eggs.
There is a BIG difference between "did
not develop" and
"Was not fertile"...... To tell a seller that X number of
eggs were
not fertile gives the impression, (intended or not) that the seller
was ripping you off by selling you 'infertile' eggs. Please take into
consideration
that an egg that did not developed may have been
perfectly fertile when it left the seller's
hands....... The infamous
post office may deliver uncracked eggs but that doesn't mean
that they were not DAMAGED...... Left on a tarmac in the sun
at the airport for
ten hours in June...... may render eggs infertile.... in a
single clutch of eggs some may
be tougher than others in that
regard so that only some of them got too hot to begin development
while the rest do just fine. Ruptured membranes are a fairly frequent
damage that can be done to eggs... Some may have had tougher
membranes that withstood
the knocks while others didn't.... The
post office and/or airports randomly pick boxes to
be x-rayed... if eggs
get picked NONE will begin development even though
all were fertile
when they were packaged.
As a seller I want to send the best eggs I can, packaged the best I can....
I want
you to come back to me and I want you to recommend me to
others... to deliberately send old,
infertile or badly packaged eggs
would be to cut my own throat in the end.... So PLEASE....
think a
bit before deciding a seller has 'ripped you off'...... Believe me when
I say that it is JUST as frustrating for us when the PO messes up...
to add wild
accusations from the buyer on top of that is a lot to ask
of a seller. Many EXCELLENT breeders
have just stopped selling eggs
because of issues like this... After
a while the only ones who WOULD put
up with that are the ones who really
DON'T care if you the customer are
happy or not.
As a buyer of shipped eggs if I get around 50% to hatch then that is
successful......
When adding new blood to an existing flock, one or
two hatching still accomplishes my needs.....
I just had to take the
bad hatches along with the good ones. It is still the cheaper and
easier
way to go then to have 25 live chicks shipped when you are wanting
5 or the expense of having adults shipped in.