I'd love some brahmas but I'd never pay that! had they been bid up that high or started high anyway? I have heard that eggs are less fertile at this time of year as well calli. Dispite the seller having good feedback I didn't have a single hatch from the 3 lots of eggs I bought on ebay last year
Tavascarow
Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 8407 Location: South Cornwall
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 06 7:33 pm Post subject:
There seems to be in breeds with E-bay.
Last winter it was copper blue marans.
Now it seems to be bramahs.
Personaly as a buyer & seller I think anything that encourages more poultry keepers who are in turn keeping breeds as apposed to hybrids gets my vote.
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Shocked I'd love some brahmas but I'd never pay that! had they been bid up that high or started high anyway? I have heard that eggs are less fertile at this time of year as well calli. Dispite the seller having good feedback I didn't have a single hatch from the 3 lots of eggs I bought on ebay last year Sad
Did you communicate your disapointment to the sellers?
i have had the same problems with some of the eggs bought from ebay,not all of the eggs though,and i did get in touch with the seller who sent me 18 eggs free of charge and had 6 hatch,and was more than happy with that
i also do tend to buy day old from my breeder,the last lot was one gold brahma one dark brahma and two wellsummers
Did you communicate your disapointment to the sellers?
I did and one sent me new eggs but we had a powercut and so when they didn't hatch it may of been because they got cold. I should be able to buy some day olds next year now all the markets are back and may have better luck with eggs that haven't been posted
Same here, contacted seller and was able to collect another bacth.
My bi problem is that if you saw a sortation hub ( ie what happens to eggs in transit) it is hardly surprising!!
Does it encourage people if so many have poor results?
dont think it has put me off,it is very dissapointing when you candle the eggs and majority is not fertile,but its even worse when they are fertile and dont hatch or die in the shell,but the seller has always the eggs if the majority has been infertile
the one before the last hatch was one fertile out of 24 white crested black polish which was pretty poor,but he did send me 18,and i did buy
6 day old hatch white crested black polish from my breeder
High Green Farm
Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 349 Location: Mid-Suffolk
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 06 4:07 pm Post subject:
The most reliable hatching we have had was from 12 eggs that I bought on ebay at Christmas and we had 8hatch.
I have been disappointed with eggs bought from ebay since though, as I think that posting may damage fertility.
I post eggs all the way to the US of A with regular 60 to 70 % success rates , so there should be no excuses !
High Green Farm
Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 349 Location: Mid-Suffolk
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 06 5:29 pm Post subject:
bodger wrote:
I post eggs all the way to the US of A with regular 60 to 70 % success rates , so there should be no excuses !
Well we've had 60-70% success rate with eggs that we have gathered from our own flock, and 20% with those posted, and all the eggs put into the incubator at the same time, so clearly something different.
I'm not being funny, but you can't be wrapping them up the same way that I do .
Going by airmail it usually takes 4 days to get there. So an internal journey should be a doddle.
High Green Farm
Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 349 Location: Mid-Suffolk
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 8:37 pm Post subject:
bodger wrote:
I'm not being funny, but you can't be wrapping them up the same way that I do .
Going by airmail it usually takes 4 days to get there. So an internal journey should be a doddle.
I've haven't been wrapping them....I've been buying! They've all been very well wrapped, polystrene boxes, bubble wrap...the works!
If you have ever been inside a hub sortation of any of the carriers then it is a case of find a parcel marked either fragile or glass ( or better still both) play football with it for a while then chuck it back on the pile.
1) Parcel dropped (ahem) into local depot.
2) Parcel packed on pallet
3) pallet loaded on artic to hub
4) Pallet offloaded inot hub
5) parcel offloaded from pallet to conveyor sortation - if lucky if not kicked about in diretion of...
6) loaded onto pallet bound for local delivery depot
7) pallet onto outbound artic
8 ) pallet offloaded unpacked delivery depot
9) parcel on depot floor/kicked around to area cage
10) Onto delivery van
If you are really lucky you will be in and parcel will not be returned to depot for a few more kick abouts....
And you expect these eggs not to detatch internally?????