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If they are born on mon they need to eat by tuesday. I don't know........would one day of no food kill a baby chick. Or were they born sunday, shipped monday and it would be 2 days. i am curious now.............
Just hatched chicks live on the yolk for 3 days. They don't have to eat...
Over the past 40 some years I have had hundreds of chicks mailed to me. I happen to live in an area that is mostly warm year-round. But the states where I have ordered from are cold early in the year. So, I wait until at least April to receive chicks. I've never had the disaster so many people...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Monday to Wednesday only about 48-60 hours? Day old chicks won't 'starve' in that length of time. That's actually about average for mail delivery of chicks. I think it's more likely to have been a rough and/or very cold trip that caused that outcome.