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Everyone's eyes have healed just fine! Thank you for the recommendation because tractor supply did have it in stock. The other chick calmed down eventually with a parakeet mirror and a little stuffed toy. She was reintroduced and stopped the eye pecking thank God.

Hi everyone! I was hoping that I can some sort of reassurance that these 3 particular polish chicks don't look like boys! They are sexed by Hoover's Hatchery as pullets but I want to be as sure as possible. I heard polish can be sexed by the shape of the crest as chicks. I just would like to...

I set up a separate brooder for it but now it's screaming at the top of its lungs at 3am lol. Anything I can do to calm her? I wiped everyone's eyes with veterycn eye wash using a q tip. Is there maybe an easy to find antibiotic for eyes that is safe for chicks?

I picked up a box of 10 polish chicks from the post office yesterday morning. Their eyes were not like this at first. Are these injuries from being pecked? One of the chicks is running around making all the other chicks yell. Pecking, grabbing fluff, wings, and toes. How should I treat this? I...

Thank you! They have tiny wing feathers that I used to help my guessing lol. I was just hoping they were not those other two breeds of crested chickens they listed. I didn't really care for what I read about them.

Most of them are yellow so I'm guessing they are buff laced polish? The two really pretty grey ones I'm hoping are silver laced polish. The last two would be white crested black polish? Thank you so much for the help!

Oh my goodness what a relief! All 10 are here and seem to be stable. It took a lot of courage to knock on the back door to the post office at 6am but I'm happy I did because they are all good now! The guy in charge said he was afraid to call at 6am lol so no harm done. I'm so happy! I wonder...

Thank you for the advice that sounds like a great idea. I'm also bringing a hot compress to stick near the box while I drive home. It's only a 6 minute drive.

I always offered my coturnix and even buttons oyster shells. I had this nice pestle and mortor that was great for grounding it up a bit. My coturnix were always interested in the oyster shells. They enjoyed dried/live mealworms and dried solider worms but they were never too interested in any...

Okay I so I got a tracking update that the chicks are now in my area so I am going to head up to the post office for about 5:30am to wait. The man I spoke to yesterday morning said 6am. Fingers crossed that these poor babies are alive and peeping when I get my hands on that box! I'm so excited...

I did manage to get a hold of the post office around 8am and they said nothing is here today and they'll call me around 6am tomorrow when they get the box. TSC texted me to say they'll be here tomorrow. USPS still has not updated to say anything besides in transit to next facility. I'm really...

Hi I just wanted to give everyone a very late update on the silkie chick. We finally got her to a vet and she had her ears fully cleaned and prescribed proper antibiotics. She did get vent gleet after the antibiotics so we ended back a second time but the vet was nice enough to DNA her too and...

It appears that I can't reach the post office before 9am by phone. My informed delivery offers no update so I'm assuming that they will arrive on Saturday. I'm just hoping that isn't too long in transit.

It has said this since around midnight on the 7th. I was hoping for a location update but none thus far.

I ordered 10 chicks off of TSC from Hoover Hatchery on September 1st and they were shipped out on the 6th. USPS says they won't be here until Saturday but I was holding out hope that they'd arrive this morning. There's a bit of a heat wave going on here in North Eastern PA so I'm pretty...