Anyone impatiently waiting for your baby chicks to arrive?!?!

[Kadu]

I am! I ordered 25 chicks from McMurray Hatchery. Oh! and one exotic breed chick!

4 Pearl White Leghorn pullets
1 Pearl White Leghorn Cockerel
9 Buff Orpington pullets
1 Buff Orpington cockerel
9 White Rock pullets
1 Dark Cornish cockerel
1 Exotic rare chick

After ordering I realized, they're all gonna look yellow as chicks! =D Well, except the dark cornish cockerel and the exotic one I guess...

If they all survive,
I'm planning on breeding my own version of meat chickens using the white rocks and dark cornish roo. I know, they're not gonna be as big, or even close to commercial birds, but I just wanted to have some fun with that. Buff orpingtons are also meant to be for meat, but that would be the next generation. Leg horns are for eggs. =)


Soooo, that's my plan! What's yours? and when are you going to buy more chicks? How many? from where? what breeds? why? =D

 

[OnlyOrps]

Got my Mottled Orpington babies! Best housewarming (or farm-warming?) Gift I've ever had!

 

[perilloux5]

Mine are scheduled to be shipped on April 22. My mom sent me 2 chicks to hold me until I get mine in.

 

[Kadu]

First picture =D at the post office


I had to grind their food cz I felt like it was too big for them. But they preferred the crumbles =/








The one with black spots is Morgan Grimes. =D He's a dark cornish cockerel.




Morgan

 

[shrparatch]

We're having record low temperatures and just received the email that our chicks have shipped. Only 15 chicks in the box. Usually it's in the 50s -60s. This year it's below freezing. p

Just a ray of hope for you, we ordered only 5 and it was below zero the two nights following their ship date. All arrived alive and well. Here's a picture of them now.

 

[jochickenlady]

THEY ALL MADE IT!!!!! We drove over there at 5:50- just then the PM called and said he heard peeping!!! He also said he called Milwaukee and asked the driver to put them in the cab- made all the difference.! Have them in my teaching room right next to me- of course co-worker

s think I'm bonkers but harmless 5 barred rock, 5 buff !!!!!!

 

[Sarahal88]

I think they should be fine 

They're pretty good at adjusting for heat and they know to eat and drink... =) You might have to clean some poopy butts when you go home though =D

Hope you get to go home early though =) Good Luck!

You were right! I cam home a little early to find 11 thriving little chicks. The Light Brahma chicks are my favorite. The are SO fulffy. You can already tell a big difference in fluffyness compared to the others, and they have feathery feet already. But I love them all. And my one little surviving Welsummer chick looks like a chipmunk, so cute.

 

[tom824]

Mine have been in the brooder for a little over 24 hours since coming home from the post office / Meyer and all is still good (fingers crossed).

 

[lazy gardener]

Got one of those. Just went through World War III regarding the fact that not doing homework = loss of electronic privileges. We're up to 12 days of silence from the electronic babysitter! Gosh, they're cute as babies, aren't they?

 

[21hens-incharge]

Better a stopped shipment than a heartbreakingly silent box at 5 am in the post office.