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I received a call this morning at 7:48am from my PO - my chicks were in! So far they all look very healthy and are adorable!! Good luck to everyone else waiting for their babies

I got the same email from Ideal saying that they shipped on the 18th (but they were supposed to ship in the 19th). I ordered a batch from mypetchicken, and they were supposed to ship the week of the 17th and I received them on the 18th - only one day! I was hoping that would have been the case...

Quote: I'm wondering what the chicken/roo is in the last picture?? The little red one??

I just received my order from my pet chicken - 8 hens total and all are fine so far I have another batch of pullets shipping on the 19th from Ideal - I hope I receive them on Friday. I can't imagine them having to stay over the weekend at the post office. I will certainly be phoning the PO...

I spent a good deal of time on here reading about BBB and agree that he probably isn't suited to be a pet - and we would not eat him. So, I guess I am going to cancel the order for him. I searched briefly for hatcherys that would ship just 1 turkey and didn't find any; we have no need for...

Our turkey is a Tom Bronze Breasted from Ideal - they say he should reach 25lbs. Does anyone know about how tall he should get? I am trying to figure out the best type of coop for him - he will be allowed to free range during the day when he is older.

Thank you! Originally we were going to get guineas, but heard they were so hard to keep around and everyone we met that had them had lost them. So, we opted for chickens instead. Lyme disease is a real problem here, so we really needed to come up with a way that we could control the tick...

We have approximately 20 chickens that we need to prepare coops for. Our intention is to let them free range since our main purpose of getting them was to help with the tick population. My latest thought is to put their coops in our large, fenced vegetable garden area, thus allowing them to...

Thank you all for the responses! We are going to keep our turkey as a pet - do I still want him to receive so much protein?

Thanks for the reply! How often, and when should I begin to supplement the turkeys diet with the boiled egg?

Hello, I'm new to the forum, chickens and turkeys and I must say first how thankful I am to have come across this wonderful, informative site After discovering many, many ticks while putting in a garden this spring we decided to get some chickens; after a trip to the feed store we found...