We have always had decent results on shipped eggs. Although we have a couple of places we have shipped eggs and received eggs from them with virtually no results for our efforts.
You know whats not fun? We just spent 10 minutes chasing one of our Spitzhauben breeder roosters around the horse pasture. Imagine 5 of us trying to corner a flighty little Chamois Spitzhuben rooster. I am sure it was a funny sight. We were relocating our Spitz and Coronations from the horse...