"feed store chick" assumptions

[chick_newbie]

The only place to get chicks in my area is great, although I think that the people would put chicks down in the wrong bin again. I purchased: 2 barred rocks, 3 white rocks, and 1 california white. I got 1 barred rock, 1 silver laced wyandotte, 1 white rock and 3 california whites. All perfectly good good chickens and all were and are healthy.

I returned later in the summer and found what they called americanas, but really just an ee which was fine with me. I really just wanted the blue-green eggs anyway. They were marked as straight run and the man also said that they were straight run. They rang up as pullets so I thought great I got what I wanted. Then through the waiting, I kept asking everyone what they thought they were. Everyone thought that I had 2 pullets and a roo. Guess what, they all lay eggs!

I am thinking about ordering but going to ask when they are going to order and if I can put in with them. Hopefully I have an in with the manager as our sons played little league together last year.

 

[ghulst]

I deliver chicks for Townline hatchery to many feed stores. We sell them what they order. If it is st. run that is what they get. We wouldn't stay in bussiness long giving males for st. run.

 

[duck&chickencrazy]

I bought my RIRs from the feed store...more than half were roosters....i was not very happy...they were straight run though so oh well.

 

[Three_Blessings]

Hey ghulst, I got some chicks at my feedstore last year and they were from Townline and I love them! Great chickens and great layers!!! The meat birds were the best we ever ate!

 

[guesswhatchickenbutt]

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My feed store only sells sexed chicks and they're seperated by breed. So she has a cage of female barred rocks, female BO's, female RIRs, etc. I can see each chick and check them out for health and choose the ones I want. The price isn't much different and I can only have 3 hens so this way I can choose the breeds I want - plus she has no minimum purchase.

 

[vermontgal]

I got my 4 chicks from the feed store, because I can't have 25.

It was generally a good deal - $1.99 per chick for hatchery-sexed pullets. They didn't have the breeds I wanted but I founds some that were ok. I ordered 2 RIR and 2 BR.

When I picked them up, the staffer who helped me (a nice person) accidentally gave me an EE instead of one of the RIRs. She is a duck person, not a chicken person so she didn't know how to tell the difference. I really liked my EE who unfortunately died about 2 weeks ago (unknown, heart attack maybe). It turns out that the RIR is a production red, but that is the hatchery not the feed store.

For $8 I had my small flock - compared to buying 25 and selling extra on craigslist.

The other benefit of buying at the feedstore is that you only get chicks that made it through shipping. The feed store doesn't sell the dead ones, or the ones that are weak.

 

[ScoobyRoo]

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Same here.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

I buy from our local feed store because I can get chicks in small quanities and we can pick out the exact ones we like (you can avoid any with pasty butt, etc). My daughters like to choose their own and the easter eggers are fun to pick out - this way you can make sure they are all different colors and easy to tell apart.

I purchased nine 2 week old chicks (EEs, WLHs, BRs, & PRs), from our local feed store. The chicks were $2.99 each, except for the EEs (sold as americanas). Those were $3.99 each. All 9 chicks were healthy, but we had a problem with one of the production reds being cannablistic - the store took the chick back and refunded our money for it.

A week later, we purchased two 5 week old barnevelder chicks from another local feedstore - also healthy.

A couple months ago, we purchased some more chicks from the original feedstore - These chicks were also healthy and sold as wyandottes. They were not wyandottes, but black sexlinks. I could have taken them back, but we are happy with them.

We were told there was a 90% chance of the chicks being pullets, but we ended up with 100% - not one roo in the bunch.