I went and ordered 7 more EEer bantams but this time from Meyer so I could get a low minimum and get a ton of color variations in my flock. This was just insurance against having too many roosters in the Cackle bunch. I don't want them to be too far apart in age. I got 6 live ones. One little...
Update!
My baby chicks arrived today not tomorrow! They are all alive. Happy to report I have 3 bluish EEers bantams with bluish legs, 5 yellow EEers (1 with brown stripes), 1 brown EEer, no stripes, and 7 reddish brown RIR bantams. I hope all the blue ones are females! Hoping for blue eggs. I...
Calling the post office was pointless. They can't stop the package in middle of the shipping unless I pick a post office closer to the hub in which case they STILL would wait overnight to be shipped from hub to the post office down the street so I may as well just wait and see what happens. It...
I ordered 15 chicks total, only 14 shipped so I was short 1 but I don't think that had much to do with the babies dying. 8 of them were EE'ers and 7 (err 6 because they shorted me one were RIR bantams) and the range of colors seemed to be very wide so 2 bluish looking and the rest were shades of...
I had 3 from mypetchicken.com (which I'm told uses the chicks from Meyer Hatchery). They were all shades of green but one had a yellow tint to the green. I ordered 8 bantams from Cackle a month ago. The box arrived with all dead chicks but I noticed 2 were blue legged EE'ers which usually means...