Baby Chicks in the Mail...

[Vegasvampire]

I have a order from Greenfire farms due to ship Monday August 31 that I ordered 2 months ago! Hopefully everything goes well .. I will be devastated if I loose any ..

 

[elmo]

I've only ever order from My Pet Chicken. Their response to you confirms my experience that they are a stand up operation!

My Pet Chicken isn't a hatchery, it's just a middleman. They contract with different hatcheries to ship to you.

Our local hardware store here in Texas was getting shipments of chicks through My Pet Chicken. I was there when they opened a box: lots of dead chicks. It was horrible. My Pet Chicken had contracted with a hatchery in the North East to ship to this store in Texas. The person I spoke with at the store said this had been happening a lot (dead chicks), so they were going to stop going through My Pet Chicken and instead order chicks directly from a hatchery in Texas, so the shipment time would be shorter.

Bottom line, I wouldn't order chicks from My Pet Chicken without asking them what hatchery the chicks will be coming from, so you can see how far the chicks are going to have to travel.

 

[WallyG74]

My Pet Chicken isn't a hatchery, it's just a middleman. They contract with different hatcheries to ship to you.

Our local hardware store here in Texas was getting shipments of chicks through My Pet Chicken. I was there when they opened a box: lots of dead chicks. It was horrible. My Pet Chicken had contracted with a hatchery in the North East to ship to this store in Texas. The person I spoke with at the store said this had been happening a lot (dead chicks), so they were going to stop going through My Pet Chicken and instead order chicks directly from a hatchery in Texas, so the shipment time would be shorter.

Bottom line, I wouldn't order chicks from My Pet Chicken without asking them what hatchery the chicks will be coming from, so you can see how far the chicks are going to have to travel.

If you’re in TX I would definitely order from Ideal Poultry which is in Cameron, TX. Great people to deal with. I’ve personally got chicks from them and shipping to MS was a breeze.

 

[WallyG74]

My five chicks that shipped July 20 from MyPetChicken didn't make it. (We were so so sad ). The customer service people at MPC were lovely, and we're going to try again at the end of September in case it was the heat that did it (I'm in Alabama). I suspect they were mishandled by our urban post office, maybe because of budget shortages? My plan is to be much more of a presence on the phone and at the post office in the days leading up to my shipment so that they know that they're coming and can look out for them better.

Very good idea! I called our local post office well in advance of our chicks arrival. The lady there told me when trucks came in the morning and to come before the post office opened and to knock on the blue door! Wow what service! Every place is different but those people don’t want your chicks to die in their care. I left the post office with a box full of peepers at 6am. Due diligence definitely pays off when dealing with your baby chicks.

 

[Shezadandy]

My Pet Chicken isn't a hatchery, it's just a middleman. They contract with different hatcheries to ship to you.

Our local hardware store here in Texas was getting shipments of chicks through My Pet Chicken. I was there when they opened a box: lots of dead chicks. It was horrible. My Pet Chicken had contracted with a hatchery in the North East to ship to this store in Texas. The person I spoke with at the store said this had been happening a lot (dead chicks), so they were going to stop going through My Pet Chicken and instead order chicks directly from a hatchery in Texas, so the shipment time would be shorter.

Bottom line, I wouldn't order chicks from My Pet Chicken without asking them what hatchery the chicks will be coming from, so you can see how far the chicks are going to have to travel.

MPC (My Pet Chicken) has two shipping speeds based on the number of chicks you order. If you order fewer than 15, they automatically go Express. If you order more than 15, they go Express or Priority - and shops probably choose Priority for the bigger boxes.

Neither is guaranteed by the USPS in sticking to their service level agreements when shipping chicks, which is clearly stated when they're ordered.

For my own experience-- I've ordered from them numerous times over 5 years. The first time was the worst, I got them on Wednesday first thing in the morning (like 4:50am), so still not bad and everyone survived. Every other order, they've turned up on Tuesday first thing in the AM, less than 24 hrs from Ohio to Oregon. I've had the occasional dead chick, but that's not the normal thing.

Once the chicks are in the hands of the USPS - you're at their mercy, and sadly the employees are stuck under a blank blank blank blank soulless blank.

 

[Shezadandy]

So what happens to those poor chicks then if people start canceling all their orders? Are they going to be doomed to die no matter what???

On the one hand, demand for chicks has been pretty high, so depending on the time frame of the cancellation to whether the eggs are set to hatch - they may be able to sell them to someone else and/or if it's far in advance of the egg going into the incubator, perhaps they don't get hatched.

If they're not sold through the normal retail channels, they go to a livestock auction in many cases. And if they don't sell there - well ... yeah.

 

[jROBERTg]

I thought this was about chickens not politics and all the lies about the USPS. can we stay on our flocks

 

[jROBERTg]

Is this a political forum or what all this is misinformation and mostly untrue, Can we not stay with talking chickens?

 

[springvalley123]

Very good idea! I called our local post office well in advance of our chicks arrival. The lady there told me when trucks came in the morning and to come before the post office opened and to knock on the blue door! Wow what service! Every place is different but those people don’t want your chicks to die in their care. I left the post office with a box full of peepers at 6am. Due diligence definitely pays off when dealing with your baby chicks.

that's a big part of the due diligence. the other part is to know where the distribution center is, what door to knock on there, if the chicks get held up there for an extra night. your local post office might give you this info.

 

[Shezadandy]

that's a big part of the due diligence. the other part is to know where the distribution center is, what door to knock on there, if the chicks get held up there for an extra night. your local post office might give you this info.

For a while they had everyone around here pick up at the distribution center, but eventually went to sending each order to its local post office, in our case almost always there by 10am on Tuesdays. Usually earlier.