Shipping Eggs in Winter

Andrew,

The season has winded down for most people including myself. I'm still shipping limited quantities of Coturnix as they are the only ones still laying but I dont expect them to lay much longer either. Usually around mid December I'll start them back on artificial lighting and have eggs available again in January. This year I've been so busy I havent had a chance to raise as many birds as I had planned. I havent raised any birds for flight either and its a huge loss with that alone. I spent much of my time trying to make some enhancements to this site and pushing our catalog and internet order business. I ship all eggs in our manufactured shipping foam. Breakage is at a minimum if at all and it acts as an insulator as well. Cold temperatures in my opinion dont hurt the eggs like you would expect. Actually the "concerned" zone is mean temperatures of 28 degrees or below for extended times. A typical two day shipment in January with eggs packed in foam seldom get to that temperature inside the box. During the cold months I typically place a hold sticker on the package for the post office to contact you to pick up the eggs. That way theyre not sitting out on your porch for hours in the cold. Some items on my site haven't changed over the past few months as I had some problems with the programming and had a couple instances of spamming and spoofing. One day I had over 13,000 emails which literally bogged down the server to a point where I couldnt even log in. Also the products on my site havent been updated either. GQF raised their prices on many items by as much as 20 percent. I dont expect to be overbooked on eggs so you may pre-order if you wish or just wait until the time comes.

Perhaps some other members would like to add their methods of shipping eggs in off season months.

Awhile back Magnumhunter posted his methods of shipping eggs and he had some terrific methods. Try doing a search on shipping.

Larry