Rural Gardening: Mail Order Chicks, 1 by silkiechick

silkiechick wrote:
to answer the origion question there is nothing wrong with ordering from hatcheries just watch when is the best time for weather beause they get so cold when traveling. i have ordered from mc murray and never lost anything and had great looking stock but i have seen others post they had off colored birds and such or advertised as pures and where really crosses. i personally have never seen it. i didn't like haveing to order 25 or more chicks at a time to only get what small selections of each breed i wanted.

ideal from tx to pa we lost a few but they replaced them and we could small order that was a huge plus there. if we didn't order enough they send 9 warmth chicks which where always rir males for some reason but usuallay 1-3 ended up pullets. my only real complaint with them is d'uccles are to weak especially the males and i had gotten a polish from them that had crook neck but the others where all fine.

can't think of the name off hand but one in ohio we ordered off of the babies where week and so sad looking. lost alot of them. couldn't tell who was what breed till like 15 weeks or older almost all looked like mutts will never buy from there again, stock was aweful. our local feed stores are like yours all basics. my birds are all considered exhatics here. i buy or trade hatching eggs to get mine in or have adult birds shipped in usually. then there is also eggbid, ebay and things like that to get them in also.
silkie