Anyone expecting chicks this week?

[equine chick]

 

[equine chick]

 

[equine chick]

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The big one with the butt is a Plymouth blue too I ordered. The hens will be here next week.

 

[danceswithronin]

The big one with the butt is a Plymouth blue too I ordered. The hens will be here next week.

I got a Plymouth White as my Meyer Meal Maker last year and that chick was HUGE compared to my silkie bantams, he had so much junk in the trunk, lol.

 

[KSH1]

I had a DOA when I opened my box of chicks this afternoon. It was terrible.
The rest are doing fine but it was so sad to see that little one in there dead.
There was no heat pack and that made me very angry as these chicks were definitely too cold when I picked them up.

I'm sorry, and I agree with you. Mine had heat packs and still we're happy to cuddle up to the heat plate for a bit when they got home.

 

[danceswithronin]

I'm sorry, and I agree with you. Mine had heat packs and still we're happy to cuddle up to the heat plate for a bit when they got home.

My chicks have never been shipped with a heat pad, but I live in the deep South so I don't think they've ever been really necessary. Last year it was so hot when I was brooding chicks I didn't even need a brooder lamp, I had to turn it off because the heat from the lamp was making the chicks agitated. Ambient temperatures in the high nineties was hot enough.

 

[KSH1]

Ugh high nineties, no thanks! Lol. I didn't notice my phone changed were to we're. Such a helpful autocorrect. My birds came from MO and AL to northeastern Ohio, so they definitely want heat for now!

 

[Ghosty]

Post office called at 6 am! I picked them up at 8:30 am this morning. Hurray! I've been waiting on these chicks for a month.
4 clarets and 3 leipers, little chipmunks. One or two looked a little down. After they got some heat, all are zipping around. Still amazes me how fast newborn game chicks can move. Congrats to the others who got their chicks. (I can say that, now, lol.) They are all such cuties!

 

[Cindy in PA]

Finally uploaded some pictures of my Blue Wyandottes, although they aren't very good! I have a brooder that I only get in from the top!

 

[danceswithronin]

Finally uploaded some pictures of my Blue Wyandottes, although they aren't very good! I have a brooder that I only get in from the top! View attachment 1752838 View attachment 1752839 View attachment 1752840 View attachment 1752841

The light blue chick with the dark mask under the eye in the first photo (facing the opposite direction than the others) is a very pretty bird.