Thank you so much for your honest review—we truly appreciate you taking the time to share your experience. We're sorry to hear that your hatch didn’t go as hoped. We know how heartbreaking it can be to invest time and care into incubating eggs, only to be disappointed.
We take great pride in sending out clean, carefully packed, and freshly collected eggs from healthy, high-quality landrace breeding stock. However, once those eggs are in the hands of the shipping carrier, they're exposed to a number of factors outside our control—like rough handling, vibrations, or temperature swings—that can damage the blastoderm (the part of the egg that becomes a chick). Sadly, this kind of internal damage isn't visible and can prevent development, even in perfectly fertile eggs.
We talk more about this in a blog post:
https://cluckitallfarms.com/blogs/just-cluckin-around/hatching-shipped-eggs
That said, we understand that shipped eggs aren’t for everyone—and we do offer live chicks as an alternative. We hear you on the shipping costs, and while we’re always looking for ways to reduce them, we never cut corners on biosecurity, heat packs, or safe packaging.
If you ever decide to give chicks a try, feel free to reach out—we’d love to help you build a flock that thrives.