"A warning to sellers and a buyer review
The last few days have been difficult at Precision Plymouth Rocks Inc. I feel the need to set the record straight. Please use common sense and take in the whole situation. My goal and intention is to find cooperative breeders for all of Precision Plymouth Rocks Inc. genetic lines. As I know how hard it is to find quality stock for these very rare breeds and varieties. Therefore I am as disappointed with received broken eggs as the client who receives them. A good cooperative breeder is as hard to find as a good bird.
First issue: Double yolks and deformed eggs.
First we do incubate and have hatched a double yolker. Actually the very first two females of out rose comb black leghorns where twins hatched from the same egg. A big egg does not mean a double yolk.
A deformed egg will have no bearing on the performance of the chick that hatches from it. The breeds we work with are very rare and every egg counts.
Packing and Shipping: I will let the photos speak for themselves. The eggs are wrapped individually and bubble wrap around each dozen with packing material use to fill the rest of the box. Both orders were packed the same manner. As far as eggs being received on their side. How many have you seen a broody hen store her eggs with the pointy end down? I do believe it would be naive to think the post service does not flip or stand the box on end at any point during the process. With the two most recent reviews one was shipped with Purolator and one with Canada Post with two very different results.
Customer Service. I spent a few weeks answering questions leading up to ship day. Such as getting photos of the parent stock, explaining the risk of shipped eggs. A word of advice to breeder to consider if a buyer can’t afford or is too cheap to buy your stock that you value because you know the hard work that goes into one good bird, it might be time to move on because there are as many who do and appreciate the hard work that goes in to each quality bird.
Now I wish people would appreciate what they have in these rare breeds and any chicks to come out of their eggs are special and should be greatly valued as all the Lines at Precision Plymouth Rocks Inc. have deep genetic roots and the blood sweat and tears of many great poultry breeders behind them just to name a few: Hardy Shore, John Sanders, Dick Nuiewland. It is ashamed that all these breeders hard work is wasted on people who would rather be concerned for their own welfare then the great genetics they received
After this experience Precision Plymouth Rocks Inc. will not offer to sell hatching eggs at all. I also encourage all breeder to implement the Jerry Foley rule. As we will not be the first or last breeder to have a no egg policy. I guess I have learned my lesson it is not worth the headaches shipped eggs carry enormous risk. — with Tracy Nutt and Megan Anderson."
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Pet quality wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucanas, welsummers, barred rocks, light brown leghorns; Projects on the go: rhodebars, welbars
