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Post by blufford on Apr 2, 2015 21:27:34 GMT
I went to post office today and I could hear that someone's chicks had been delivered in the back. The postal workers were nice enough to bring them out so I could look at them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 21:32:06 GMT
So, when are you ordering yours?
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Post by Chickadee on Apr 3, 2015 1:09:55 GMT
Heh. I read what you had written and then looked at your avatar. I thought at first that your dog ate the chicks.
lol
They are so cute when they are tiny!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 1:23:31 GMT
Oh, little chicks are so cute... and messy... and stinky...
And then, they grow up to lay eggs, eat bugs, and be FOOD for the barbecue!
YEAH CHICKS!!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 1:23:38 GMT
Heh. I read what you had written and then looked at your avatar. I thought at first that your dog ate the chicks.
Chicks, Chicks, Chicks!!!!
... And I was thinking of yet something else. Just my luck!
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Post by blufford on Apr 3, 2015 13:36:40 GMT
My apartment building doesn't allows chickens or much else. We have a small town post office that is a throw back to earlier times. It made my day when the clerks brought the box of chicks out and set them on counter for me to look at.
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Post by Homesteader on Apr 3, 2015 17:11:11 GMT
The first time I ordered chicks after moving to our homestead, the postal guy drives up, and I was so excited.........I said do you have my chicks today? "Yes, and they've been calling me cheep all morning!" So funny........  |
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Post by Wendy on Apr 3, 2015 17:15:03 GMT
I have 100 coming on the 16th! I can't wait!
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Post by Muller's Lane Farm on Apr 3, 2015 19:10:52 GMT
I like to see the postal workers faces when I have had honeybees mailed out!
I have actually received calls at 3 AM from PO 3 hours away asking if I wanted to come pick them up .... um no ... I paid for shipping so I wouldn't have to drive. I do go in to town to pick them up, I like my delivery lady.
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Post by Callie on Apr 3, 2015 23:57:23 GMT
I ordered some, then hurt myself and cancelled the order....then ordered some more 3 weeks later. Then I went to a local farm store and they had welsummers.....well....I cancelled my order yet again. I only bought 10 straight run. I've found that too many chicks is too many chicks.
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Post by vickinal on Apr 4, 2015 1:57:04 GMT
We have 8 that is about a month old and have 30 coming on the 4th of May. Just built a chicken house and getting excited. We have ordered twice this year already and they were dead both times. So May chicks it will be.
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Post by Muller's Lane Farm on Apr 4, 2015 2:21:57 GMT
We have 50 meat birds about a week old in the brooder house.
Our egg laying flock is laying a LOT right now & I think one of my buff orphingtons is getting broody. I'll stick a dozen under her tomorrow and see if she stays put
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Post by Wendy on Apr 4, 2015 2:32:28 GMT
I'm going to Rural King next week to pick up layer chicks. they'll have them on sale now once Easter is over.
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Post by manygoatsnmore on Apr 4, 2015 4:28:50 GMT
None of my hens have gone broody yet this year. Last year, the first ones went broody in January, and the last chicks were brought out in November...dumb hens! Cold weather chicks don't do well when raised by hen.  |
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Post by Callie on Apr 4, 2015 13:22:52 GMT
We have 8 that is about a month old and have 30 coming on the 4th of May. Just built a chicken house and getting excited. We have ordered twice this year already and they were dead both times. So May chicks it will be. wow! So sorry your chicks didn't survive their delivery. Do you know what happened to them? Let's hope your May chicks do better. |
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Post by Muller's Lane Farm on Apr 4, 2015 15:05:10 GMT
We have ordered twice this year already and they were dead both times. So May chicks it will be. Ouch. Who did you order from? |
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Post by bergere on Apr 4, 2015 18:39:24 GMT
It isn't so much is who you order from... its the Postal workers that don't care for the chicks, toss them, leave them out in the cold.
Never ever had an issue ordering chicks, until I moved here. First two batches were dead... ticked me off no end, one batch had my Blue Red Lace Wyndottes in it.
They got too cold.
I have since educated my local post office, and knock on wood, I haven't had any problems since. I also went down the line and filed complaints loud enough, I think the postal system listened. (VA has some anti chick/chicken shipping into VA laws... that I find annoying)
Have some eggs in the incubator right now.. have 15 Lavender ameraucana bantam chicks, that should be arriving around April 27th.
At some point, I have some more Welsummer and Blue Copper Marans pullets due to arrive. Decided with my big hens,, I would just buy pullets.
If I end up with too many chickens, is easy enough to sell them around here.
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Post by Callie on Apr 4, 2015 18:48:30 GMT
I covet the blue wyandottes...but I'd take a lavendar orpington instead. The lavendars all come out lavendar. I can find hatching eggs but no hatchery carries them. Alas.... I love gray birds!
I have a broody pullet right now. I bought them as chicks in November so they'd be ready to lay by spring. They are all laying right now and one is broody. I don't even have a rooster so all her efforts are in vain. It's too cold to have hatching eggs shipped still. Bah....chickens!
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Post by bergere on Apr 4, 2015 18:55:04 GMT
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Post by bergere on Apr 4, 2015 18:56:37 GMT
I did not reorder the Blue Red laced Wyndottes. Sad really, have wanted some since they came out.
But I am very happy with my darker eggs from the Welsummers and Blue copper Marans.
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Post by Muller's Lane Farm on Apr 4, 2015 18:59:38 GMT
It isn't so much is who you order from... its the Postal workers that don't care for the chicks, toss them, leave them out in the cold. Sometimes it is who you order them from .... I won't ever order from Cackle again after a fiasco 12 years ago with an order of over $300 poults ... they only picked and shipped half the order (pick list still in the box). Some poults were DOA and the rest didn't make it. It took over a month of almost daily calls to Cackle to get a refund for the half that they didn't send me, saying I didn't know how to brood poults.  Our own farm store quit ordering chicks from Cackle because they usually lost at least 50%. |
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Post by bergere on Apr 4, 2015 19:03:39 GMT
Ouch... never ordered from them. Thanks for that info.
Mostly Ordered from Privett, some times Murry McMurry. Though the later, I do not like most of their chickens as much. Privett was the one with the DOA Blue Red Laced Wyndottes and Salmon Faverolles.. they
were very quick to refund. They also had words with the Postal system in this State.
Now I mostly order from private breeders, so I can get better quality stock. But this has a down side living in VA.... there are some pretty strong restrictions in this state regarding chickens.
More I talk with people.. lets just say it is beyond crazy.
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Post by vickinal on Apr 5, 2015 6:19:16 GMT
It was Murray Mcmurray. They were coming from Iowa and it was still pretty cold for Central AL.
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Post by bergere on Apr 5, 2015 10:32:45 GMT
If it was MM, I am going to stray to the side of ... someone in the Postal service didn't do their job and keep the chicks warm or tossed them too hard.
My Post office never got chicks in before me... hence the death of two shipments. I hope you filed a complaint with your PO and had a talk with them.
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Post by Muller's Lane Farm on Apr 5, 2015 12:15:35 GMT
Concur, bergere. I would also file a complaint with the PO. I've ordered from MM for 30 years and even when the PO has messed up, MM will replace/refund with no questions asked. |
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I have some of their chickens... very health and very nice. Prices are quite good.