Barnevelder eggs at last!

I came home today and found the PO had delivered the Barnevelder eggs I had ordered as a back up for the breeder ones I'd ordered. The breeder ones that kept taking weeks to deliver and are still suppose to come (third try). These are from Ideal and I was on a waiting list, but they sent them the day said (May 6th) and arrived 2 days later!

I think the way they packaged them is interesting. It was a dozen eggs and they are all in good shape--although one may have TAC. The shipping cost was $9.65.

Here is the outside of the box:

The inside--no additional packaging--just the egg carton material.

You lift up the egg carton and find evenly spaced eggs wrapped in bubble wrap and set in egg carton material--very jumbo to fit the wrapped eggs.

And here are the eggs! I think Ideal has created this method to minimize shipping costs--but it seems to work very well.

I just noticed they marked it just "perishable". I think this might work better than "hatching eggs"--which might bring out the sadist in some handler (just kidding)!

This message was edited May 8, 2008 9:13 PM

They package well. Glad you got your eggs all in one piece.

well, about time! hurry up and hatch me a roo ;-)

I wonder if someone at the sellers PO is nursing a personal grudge against him and not sending out his packages for a while? If these have to be replaced ask him to use a different PO and see what happens.

MollyD

Great packaging and I am so glad you have all your eggs now! I hope you get a whole flock of chickies!

ditto!

MollyD

Thanks everyone. I am hopeful--just one Barnevelder pullet is all I ask! The eggs are actually much darker than they appear in the picture (flash wiped them out). Does anyone know if it makes sense to select from the darker eggs in hopes of breeding for darker egg producers? Or are their just too many variables in eggs shipped anonymously (no idea about parents age, molting status or nutritional state) to go to the effort to associate the chicks with the eggs?

Catscan,

While all those factors are certainly at play what would it hurt to track the chicks and see if it's a major factor or not? I would!

MollyD

LOL, i can see you doing embryonic surgery to put tags on them so they are already identified as to color of shell ;-) i think i need more coffee...

Why TF that is ingenous! I was just going to call in sick for two days and watch them.

ROFL!

well, OK that could work, but not 100%...♥