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  1. jakesbigpapa

    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    3 are speckled sussex and 2 are "aracauna" - easter eggers.
  2. jakesbigpapa

    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    Well, it's been a week since we got our silkies, and 5 days since we picked the rest of the flock up from the feed store, and everyone is doing well. Here's our EE, a golden comet, and a blue and black silkie. b It was warm enough the other day to let them forage for a few minutes. My 3...
  3. jakesbigpapa

    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    Thanks for the kind words everyone. I hope I didn't kill this thread. I've been loving participating in it, it was just pretty devastating, after waiting as long as we did, to go through what we went through on Thursday. Anyway, we found some silkies locally, 2 blue and 2 black. Here they...
  4. jakesbigpapa

    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    The breeder was wonderful about the whole thing. No, she's never run into this before. Obviously, we were both heartbroken about the chicks. She offered me a full refund, or to resend a batch of new hatchlings, because we didn't want to traumatize the surviving chicks any longer. At first, I...
  5. jakesbigpapa

    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    My first chicks ever were supposed to arrive today. They were shipped yesterday, and I was tracking them obsessively. This morning, when they were still in Florida, I got extremely worried, considering the fact that I'm in New York. I started making phone calls at about 8:45. When the...
  6. jakesbigpapa

    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    The silkies shipped this morning and are guaranteed to be here by 3:00 tomorrow. Then the golden comets, speckled sussex, and EEs will be here Monday.
  7. jakesbigpapa

    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    You all warned me!!! One week until our first chicks are due to arrive, and I couldn't resist temptation....I nowhave 4 silkies shipping on Wednesday. Chicken math is real...isn't it.
  8. jakesbigpapa

    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    Seven days from today and we'll be receiving our first chicks ever......3 speckled sussex, 3 golden comets, and 2 easter eggers. Brooder is ready to go....now I just need to fight off the urge to pick up some chicks from TSC before next Monday.
  9. jakesbigpapa

    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    I'm still impatiently waiting. I set the brooder up today. Only 10 days to go...lol.
  10. jakesbigpapa

    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    Two weeks from today.....just two more weeks....let's see...that's only 336 hours......20,160 minutes.....1,209,600 seconds......that's still a LONG TIME.......
  11. jakesbigpapa

    Anyone else doing the "chick wait"?

    ME!!!!! We ordered our first brood (3 speckled sussex, 3 golden comets, 2 araucana) from the local AGWAY a couple of weeks ago, and they're coming in at the end of the month. My son (3 and a half) is very excited, but out of sight out of mind for a three year old. Myself on the other hand...
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