Anyone Order Chicks For Spring?

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Yikes I hope not! Can't have roosters where I live!

My Pet Chicken never adds extras.

 

[yellowherb]

I ordered 10 standard cochins and 2 feather legged cuckoo marans from Ideal. They are coming 3-01-17.

Ideal has a $25 minimum order and their shipping fees are reasonable. I've ordered 2 times from there before and both times chicks were super healthy and all arrived alive. No packing peanuts (males) included.

 

[deavs]

Just got 15 today for laying hens. Watch out for those Easter egger chicks. Mine is picking on the others at the moment

 

[ShrekDawg]

I haven't ordered any chicks this year yet and my current chickens I ordered last fall so no spring chicks but I am thinking of either adding some more chickens or adding ducks to the flock this spring/summer

 

[chickenweirdo1]

I want some ducks or a goose.

 

[Isaac 0]

I use MPC too.The only problem is there prices are very high.Cost around 70$ for seven chicks.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

What I do is I order those minimums and then sell the others. This is especially okay in breeds that don't come sexed. For instance, I have ordered 32 chicks in 7 breeds/varieties to come next month but will only be keeping 11. Of course, this works because I live in the country and have no poultry limits, so I can grow them out until sexed and sell the females for more to make up for the lower price the males will yield. Even with estimating that 50% will be males I predict my net cost will be $20-30 for those 11 chicks I keep, even taking into account feed costs for growing out the extras to 6 weeks old (though not accounting for mortality).

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I ordered 10 standard cochins and 2 feather legged cuckoo marans from Ideal. They are coming 3-01-17.

Ideal has a $25 minimum order and their shipping fees are reasonable. I've ordered 2 times from there before and both times chicks were super healthy and all arrived alive. No packing peanuts (males) included.

What color cochins did you get?

I had very bad luck with Ideal, both in mortality and the quality of one large fowl, with my last two orders. I'm glad you have had better luck with them!

 

[yellowherb]

I ordered gold laced, silver laced, barred and partridge. 2 of each as pullets and 1 roo in barred and 1 in partridge. Since I plan on using them as part of a breeding project on Sultans, I hope they are not massive in size, 7lbs would be great for me

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I ordered gold laced, silver laced, barred and partridge. 2 of each as pullets and 1 roo in barred and 1 in partridge. Since I plan on using them as part of a breeding project on Sultans, I hope they are not massive in size, 7lbs would be great for me

Are you trying to get different colored sultans? That would be great. I love my sultan but wish they come in more than white! The LF cochins are pretty darn big, though. Sultans are only about 4# and border on being bantams. With that being said, I think a Sultan over Cochin would be better than a Cochin over Sultan, as you want the larger one to be the one laying the egg.

ETA oops I was thinking of Brahmas for some reason. Either way, Sultan over Cochin would work better, because of size and I think they say its okay to breed daughters to fathers but not sons to mothers, for whatever reason.