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

[aclee]

Well nothing exciting really, but my first EVER chicks so I'm over the moon excited about them! I am getting 14 Jumbo Cornish X Males, and 12 Cornish Roaster Straight Run, and a free exotic, most likely male

I'm hoping for packing peanuts, but they are coming from McMurray, so they aren't really known for them.

I went and got a chick supplement , clip on light, light bulb, 10# fine cracked corn, 50# broiler feed, a bale of pine shavings, feeder and gallon water holder tonight at the grain store, just have to set up the brooder (I think we're going to use a big rubbermaid) and figure out where we are putting it while they will be inside...but we should have everything to get started!

Chicks are coming the second week in March!!

 

[gryeyes]

*I* am excited and I haven't even ordered any yet!

I keep telling myself to simply repeat last Autumn's events (to some extent) and just get chicks from the feed store again. There's a chance they might actually HAVE Welsummers, if I call every Thursday when their shipments come in. And they are expecting some Partridge Cochins, so maybe they'll get some dark colored ones.

But I don't think I'll be able to find any Buckeyes or Speckled Sussex at any West Coast feed store. *wistful sigh*

In the interim, I have a chick order sitting in "the shopping cart" at MyPetChicken; I haven't yet gotten the nerve to complete the ordering process.

 

[dntd]

I'm geting 16 chicks march 23!!!!!!!!!!!!!8 mixed and 8 barred rock I can't wait!

 

[LeghornLisa]

Well, they are scheduled to arrive the week of March 7th..2 Auracanas, one Salmon Faverolle and one Golden Campine. Very excited to add to my girls!!! Ordered from McMurray...

 

[Kelly G]

I'm SO excited!!! I can't WAIT for mine to get here!!! The suspense is killing me! I ordered from Ideal and they are due to ship on March 3rd.

I ordered:
9 White Crested Black Polish Bantams
9 Ameraucana (Easter Eggers) Bantams
3 Partidge Silkie Bantams


They cannot get here soon enough!!!!

 

[catdaddy66]

Finally got mine this am...Look at them on my thread in this forum today!!

:cd:yiipchick

 

[wordgirl]

No.

I wish I was, though. Baby chicks are quite possibly some of THE cutest animal babies in the world.

Enjoy your little cutie-pies!

 

[CTChickenMom]

My 8 seem so far out, hatch day is April 12. Will it ever get here?

 

[TeamChaos]

I just finished my order with Purely Poultry for my first chickens ever! I'm pretty excited, but I don't think anyone within earshot wants to hear me say the "c word" again any time soon, so I figured I better come here and get it all out-

 

[CTChickenMom]

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I know how that is. No one wanted to hear me for weeks! When I ordered last year it was January and I didn't get them until April 1st. What a drag that was!

This year I know better!

I will have 2 each of Jersey Giants, speckled Sussex, Buff Chanteclers, and Salmon Faverolles