“I feel bad reading some of these reviews cause this breeder has amazing fluffy silkies that are perfect in so many ways. I absolutely fell in love the first time we ordered eggs and had a great hatch. We decided to order some more since we did so good the first time and again a great hatch which is amazing odds to anyone who has purchased and shipped eggs before. I couldn‚Äôt believe how fluffy and healthy the chicks are. I wish I could Share a picture and show how beautiful my first batch turned out and now the second one I can‚Äôt wait till they are bigger ❤Ô∏è I will definitely be buying more again soon and hopefully even showing some this year! We Highly recommend these show quality eggs AMAZING......... You can see the years of dedication and hard work that went into breeding these silkies”
“I had a great hatch! I Put 12 eggs in the incubator and candled them at day 7. Ten were good and all 10 hatched! It was like watching popcorn pop for two days. I just ordered another dozen!”
“My rating is not a commentary on the breeder and how the eggs were packaged - this rating is a commentary on your likelihood of hatching anything because of the rough handling at the post office. I'm a glass half full kind of person, so I thought maybe I'd get a hatch rate of 25%. I bought a dozen eggs to incubate, hoping to hatch 4 of them. I know that makes these $50 chicks, but this is what I do instead of going to the movies or eating out so I consider it an entertainment expense as well. I know incubating shipped eggs is a different process than incubating your own chickens' fertilized eggs. We do both. We were careful, let the eggs sit for 24 hours to rest before putting them in the incubator. Most of the air cells looked watery so we were pretty pessimistic. But we thought we'd give it a go and follow the San Diego Zoo's shipped egg protocol. Day 7, 10 eggs were still clear, 1 egg started to develop, 3 eggs had started to develop and died (blood rings). We're at day 14 and the same - 10 clear eggs. I'd upload a photo if I could but just Google "unfertilized egg" and "candling" and you'll see what I mean. I'm not saying these eggs weren't fertilized. I don't have the expertise to say. I did open one and the blastodisc was irregular - no bullseye even started forming which is what you would expect of a fertilized egg. So all in all, if this one egg hatches it will be a $200 chick. It's disappointing because these chickens look absolutely beautiful, but your chances of success are extremely low unless you live very close to the breeder and can maybe limit the shipping time to one day. Ours was 3 days.”
“Do not purchase these!!! It‚Äôs a complete ripoff and customer service is one excuse after another. We received 7 eggs and were poorly packed in paper towels and inserted in to a cardboard egg carton. 1 egg was broke and stinking on arrival and had coated the other 6 eggs. Customer service blamed the USPS and told us to try and hatch the others. We candled the others before putting in the incubator and it was obvious they weren‚Äôt fertilized. 24 days later and not a single one hatched or even tried to develop. Ordered 6 Blue Silkie eggs off eBay at half the cost and they arrived perfect in individually wrapped bubble wrap. Candled them and they had the tell tale spot. Will get the same inexcusable response to this review I‚Äôm sure.”
“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.”
