Anyone else EXCITED to be getting baby chicks in the mail soon??

[baldie]

Im psyched, I get mine on Feb 8th!!

 

[barred-rocks-rock]

I was going to get Mille Fleur d Uccles, Mottled Japanese, Silver Sebrights, and Light Brown Dutch bantams. But we got the Meyer catalog today and my father said. "to bad we arent getting chicks this year."

 

[The Sheriff]

Mine aren't babies but any day now I am expecting a pair of Mini Oregon Geese from Holderreads Waterfowl.

 

[farmerlor]

I'm actually excited to NOT be getting babies in the mail this year. I've finally got my flock where I want it to be, with the breeds I want (except for some turkens!!!!), so this year all the new babies will be hatched babies from the girlies I already have. I can't wait to see what I get.

 

[Matt A NC]

My chicks are shipping Feb 10th from Cackle.

I am expecting 25 Buff Orpington pullets, 25 Black Australorp Pullets, and 3 Black Australorp Cockerels.

I actually managed to get some more done on the outside Brooder today.

Matt

 

[felidaet]

I won't be getting my chicks until early April.

I am getting some misc projects completed around the house before they get here.

Last year I borrowed a brooder. This year I will be building my own brooder. I am going to build it out of OSB. It will be 8' long x 3' wide x 2' tall. Plenty of space for the 24 - 25 chicks. I was just going to throw together something temporary but my wife suggested that we build something nicer that we can use in future years.

. Looks like my chicken addiction is contagious.

I am not buying any chicks directly through the mail. Some are coming from a local breeder and the others are coming from two feed stores. I am getting all LF.

From the local breeder I am getting 3 Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, 1 Gold Laced Wyandotte, 2 Deleware, 3 Rhode Island Red, 1 Partridge Rock.

From one feed store I am getting 3 Easter Eggers. These are coming from Privett. I really like the 3 I got last year. I am hoping I can get a mostly white one.

Finally from another feed store I will be getting 10 mixed layers from a feed store promotion. I am hoping for at least 2 white leghorns and 2 gold comets in these

. I was very happy with the 5 I got from this feed store promotion last year (White Leghorn, Brown Leghorn, Barred Rock, Rhode Island Red, Gold Comet). They get their chicks from Dunlop and another hatchery I had not heard of before (I don't remember the name).

 

[CTChickenMom]

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25 is usually the minimum for many hatcheries. Don't know about Ideal. You probably won't get extras. That's not to say you won't get a roo because they were sexed wrong. That's how I got my boy Bert. He was supposed to be a light Brahma girlie. Here he is with his sister.

 

[KDH]

Me, me, me! I'm all excited! We have 20 golden laced wyandottes coming - will be shipped on March 3 (I know, it's still 5 weeks away, but I don't care; I'm still all excited).

 

[Uzuri]

Excited! But hardly coming "soon". I think we're looking at April hatch dates. Late enough to be a bit warmer up here, early enough that my folks don't have to care for babies when I do some traveling in the early summer.

 

[oreochip]

We are expecting our first chicks in a week. When I say "first" I mean FIRST. A new adventure and from what I have been reading, it will be just that.
I can't remember what I ordered. Some kind a "assortment pack"

We live in a residential neighborhood and can not have roosters. Ideal Poultry will put roosters in with our order to keep everyone warm. Sad question but "what do I do with these roosters that we are not allowed to have?