Anyone Get This Spring's Order From Welp?

[calista]

If you ordered your spring chicks from Welp, please tell me if you were happy with their service and if the chicks arrived healthy. Also, how far did they travel to reach you?

Thanks!

 

[colby318]

Ordered 20 blr wyandotte pullets and 5 blue wyandotte pullets. No extras. Shipped to KY. All arrived happy and healthy. Haven't lost any but the lacing on the blr is light (lemon gold) and the blues have black shanks. So far, at 6 weeks, I have only one male. These are chicks that I'm selling anyways, not keeping for a breeding program.

Colby

Bought EEs and welsummers last year from them. No problems there either.

 

[Lotsapaints]

I just got my order last Wednesday and Thursday I ordered 15 pullets of Delawares and Partridge Rocks way better than the ones that came from McMurray the Delawares are really nice very close to the ones I hatched out from a breeder and the PR's are bigger than the first ones not as flighty and better colored. I love my turkeys I got 15 MW and only lost 3 which is good for shipped turkeys all of the birds are doing great and I'm thinking about getting another batch of breeds that I've had a hard time hatching or finding. Very nice people very nice customer service and very good birds for a hatchery.

 

[calista]

Thanks, those are reassuring reports. My original order of chicks for March had to be put off because of a family emergency, and now we must wait until June 7th for delivery.

In ordering over the phone, the customer service was outstanding and detailed in answering our questions and concerns about shipping to Washington State, and she even partially waived the "under-five-of-breed" fee when my hubby said the delivery date coincided with my birthday!

I'll report back on the delivery specifics. My postmaster has already been grilled about his experience in receiving shipped chicks and, after rolling his eyes and sighing a lot, he patiently explained that he's been taking deliveries of day-old chicks for 17 years and NOT TO WORRY.

 

[grandmaof5]

Did Frank Lloyd Wright ever design a chicken-house, I wonder?

 

[calista]

The Coonley Coach House, Riverside, Illinois:

"Frank Lloyd Wright’s stable design consisted of three separate units with overlapping roofs; a central main unit with a horse stable carriage garage, tack room, and hay loft, a west unit with a Coachman’s apartment and workshop, and an east unit near Coonley Road with a chicken coop, cow barn, storage and garden shed. The Stable was completed in 1911 and was significantly altered from Wright’s design by the Coonleys. The east unit was altered to contain a two car garage and a central steam boiler plant for the estate. The chicken coop was eliminated."

Well, at least there's proof F.L.W. actually designed and built a chicken coop.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1329536

 

[western edge]

I was told that Welp only hatches cornish and cornish cross. The rest of their chicks come from Privett hatchries, which i ve heard good things about. I liked Welps selection. i have comming from Welp on may 19th- 10 rhode island white, 5 dominiques and 10 cali whites. Very friendly people to work with.