Wanting to Buy Eggs

[Sheather]

Perhaps this sounds unusual, but I am interested in purchasing finch eggs with the intent to attempt and hatch them under fosters. I'm aware the survival rate may be poor, but I still think it would be a fun experiment.

I am looking for Gouldian (any color), white societies, mutation zebras, owls, really anything. I have both a colony societies and a proven pair of Javas who seem to feed anything and have fostered for me before (actually currently are weaning a society and a zebra together). I also have a canary hen who I am sure would be very happy to have some canary eggs to raise - her eggs never hatch.


I would like to try this now while the weather is mild and above freezing but before the heat of summer. I'm not sure how we'd go about price but we'd have to discuss it.

So If anyone has birds they're not wanting to breed at this time and eggs they'd otherwise toss, I'm interested.

[lovezebs]

Sheather

Oh Dylan, you had me going there for a minute... I was about to respond, is there an egg shortage in lndiana? Are the chickens on strike? I have two dozen in the fridge .

I would love to share eggs, but how on earth would one ship them??? I simply have no idea, if a person is even allowed to ship eggs (considered food [?] ) across the border.

There would be no cost in my books, other than the shipping, if that can even be managed.

Let me know your thoughts on this.

~Elana~

[Sheather]

I'm really not sure about the Canada - America thing... nobody needs to know what's in the box beyond packing material. I don't believe America opens up packages coming into the country from Canada if they're properly labeled and not leaking or smelling or being suspicious. All I'd do would be to cushion the eggs really well with something and just in case set a note saying "Lady Gouldian Finch fertile eggs" or something relevant in case. A 3 second internet search would reveal that's not an illegal product as it's not a living bird or from a restricted species (so long as you're not sending Java eggs).

Okay apparently anything but express mail can take up to 12 days to arrive. Express mail is 22 dollars shipping but it can come overnight. I'd be willing to do that, maybe.... It isn't that much...
Hm.

I think probably just a box absolutely stuffed with cotton and surrounded by bubble wrap with eggs in the middle might work...

[debbie276]

When you posted "Is it possible to ship eggs?" back in January you got responses that were helpful, didn't they pan out?

If you do a search "shipping eggs" you will get a ton of threads, some contain stories of egg swaps and some of how the eggs were packed.
Here are just a couple I found:

http://www.finchforum.com/viewtopic.php ... gs#p273523
has information on Tiffany's "egg exchange" yahoo group but not sure it's still active.

http://www.finchforum.com/viewtopic.php ... ipping+egg
Very last post is from Tiffany offering help in packing the eggs if interested.

http://www.finchforum.com/viewtopic.php ... ipping+egg
Here's a very long thread (12 pages) with pictures of zebra eggs that were shipped

Now you just have to find someone willing to part with fertile eggs and get them in a timely manner without shaking them up too much.

[Sheather]

I didn't get any offers from anyone actually willing to send me some eggs though. This topic exists not to ask for advice for how to do it but to find people willing to send me some now.

[debbie276]

Gotcha, I thought you were looking how to do it by this comment,

I think probably just a box absolutely stuffed with cotton and surrounded by bubble wrap with eggs in the middle might work...

[delray]

I'm actually really interested in shipping eggs, maybe in a year or 2. Seems really cool for P+F to incubate one.

[Sheather]

Delray can't you just get an egg from your aunt?

[delray]

Sheather yes I can. I wasn't clear with my comment sorry. It seems like a great and cool idea for them to incubate it and hatch it.

[Sheather]

Still wanting.

[608duj]

I have bought a lot of Poultry eggs on ebay. Hatching rate is 50% if you are lucky. I would think with tiny finch eggs the rate would be even less due to their losing moisture so quickly and possible fatal temperature fluctuations during several days shipping.

[Sheather]

That's better than 0%!

[Colt]

Check your pm's Sheather.

[Sheather]

Colt I've replied.