“Two separate orders totaling 28 eggs. None hatched. Not an incubator issue. My other eggs are hatching ok. I know eggs can be damaged in shipping but I feel these eggs could be packaged better. Every egg had completely detached air cells.”
“I have ordered show silkies from this breeder twice now. The first time I received 7 eggs, my shipping box was banged up a bit but no eggs were cracked or broken. None of them hatched. The second time I received 21 eggs (they included some free ones in sympathy for my last hatch going bad). None hatched. Out of two separate orders, all 28 eggs had completely separated air cells and some had red/cloudy spots in them. None of them hatched. It‚Äôs not an incubator issue, I haven‚Äôt had any trouble getting other eggs to hatch (including shipped eggs, I have had AT LEAST 50% hatch rate). It‚Äôs just these Silkie eggs that won‚Äôt hatch. I do realize that eggs can be damaged internally during shipping, but I feel that the breeder could do a better job of packaging these in order to compensate for that, especially with the amount being charged for these eggs. I know there‚Äôs another breeder on here who actually wraps each individual egg in bubble wrap, this breeder just wraps them in paper towels and then bubble wraps them all together in an egg carton. I am really disappointed, I really wanted some show quality silkies which is why I bought these and not the live chicks (those ones are just hatchery quality). Out of two separate orders totaling 28 eggs I should have gotten SOMETHING out of them.”
“I have bought hatching eggs from this breeder twice now. The first time, I received 7 and none hatched (the box was banged up from the post office but all eggs were intact). I ordered more eggs to try again and was also sent some free ones in sympathy for my last hatch and received 21 eggs, none hatched... It‚Äôs not an incubator issue. I have no problems hatching any other eggs. The Silkie eggs are the only ones that just won‚Äôt hatch. Every single egg had a completely free floating air cell and some had cloudy spots inside them upon arrival. I realize that eggs can be damaged internally during shipping but I do feel that these eggs could be packaged a little better in order to compensate for that. I know another breeder on here wraps each individual egg with bubble wrap and this breeder only wraps each egg in paper towels. I really wanted some show quality silkies to add to my flock which is why I didn‚Äôt just purchase some live chicks (those are just hatchery chicks) and feel that out of two separate orders totaling 28 eggs (and the amount charged for those eggs) I should have gotten SOMETHING.”
“I purchased 6 Silkie, I also purchased 6 Wyandotte's at the same time. Only one Silkie even developed and hatched, and only 2 Wyandotte's incubated and hatched the others never began to incubate and where like soup inside. They sent bakes half dozens, so I receive 7 of each. So out of 14, only 3 ever started to incubate. I have no idea what happened, I never had such a poor hatch rate. Very disappointed.”
“I had a good hatch with these eggs. I ordered 6 eggs, and 4 out of those 6 hatched. These chicks are the fluffiest silkies I have seen! Fingers crossed for females.”
“I'm surprised by the other reviews! I had such a good hatch. My eggs arrived 2 days after shipping and 11/12 developed, 10/12 hatched. That's great even compared to hatches at home. My only complaint is the post office called me at 5:45 am to let me know the package had arrived. (Is that really necessary, people!? A few more hours to sleep would've been nice.)”
“So I'm not happy either about the eggs I recieved. Only one is alive and developing of seven. Two may have died earlier on and four were not fertilized. They had absolutely nothing going on. Unfortunately I ordered 6 fun and funky and only one of those is alive. One died early on and five didn't look to have been fertilized. (Recieved a free egg to total 7)”
