As I am supposed to be picking up our beardies on saturday I ordered some crickets and calci worms online.
I got an email on the 15th saying they had been shipped. They havn't arrived yet and the snow gates on the road are currently closed, meaning no vehicles can get through. I am hopeing they will reopen in the next few hours (currently 4.53 am here).
So my question is, bearing in mind we are at -4c just now, are they all likely to be DOA?
If not how much longer are they likely to survive?
Depends on if the mail facility left them outside which they shouldn't ("live" "perishable") they usually say on the box not to leave the parcel too. If they took it back to the local facility you may be looking at a few DOA's but, not the entire contents. If they left them outside or in a mail/drop box then likely they have suffered a lot of losses.
Cheers for the reply, will let you know the results when they arrive.
Having said that if the snow gates remain closed I may have to try to keep them alive for a while afore I actually get the beardies here to eat them, now thats a whole other problem.
Message to self: go read feeders forum more thouroughly.
I got special, as I was hoping they would get up afore the weather hit us.
Pick up of the dragons have been delayed as the driver cannot get up to Inverness from soiuth and we cannot get down.
I had arranged to meet in Inverness cos the drive up here from there is not the best in decent weather conditions, never mind in this stuff. The whole county was at a standstill till lunch time, now some of the roads are passable with care, but still being advised by police to stay home.
....and its still snowing, if the wind gets up again and drifts it, everything will shut again.
Oh dear, im sorry about the terrible weather,
If its special the post office will try the hardest to get it for you,
Are you near a post office? you could ring them? and ask them to keep it warm for you i guess?
Im not really sure what else you can do x