for those who have ordered from Cackle...

[chickpeaz]

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Countrybum, I love your Peaz! I really want peafowl but hubby hates the strangled cat noise and has adamantly, repeatedly rejected the idea. He so very seldom puts his foot down, and he's such a great hubby -- I can't push him too far. Someday maybe he'll bend and I can get me some Peaz of my own!

Saw some Chinese geese on Craigslist the other day...hard to resist!

 

[The Wolf Queen]

I ordered from them once and my local feed store gets their chicks from there. Ive heard at least 10 things about order mess ups or sending them to the wrong post office and they are really expensive but when I ordered from them they were shipped Monday I got them Wednesday. The bad thing was that right when I got them home 4 or 5 died. Where as I ordered from Ideal and they were all healthy except one and that poor one died 3 days later. Other than that those chicks are happy healthy and pretty darn cute. Oh and I have an order of 16 coming from Ideal the 24th

 

[Young MacDonald]

When I ordered from Cackle via internet, I received a confirmation immediately that said they would send me a second confirmation with a ship date soon. It took about ten days, but I did get it and my ship date was 5 weeks after the 2nd confirmation date (June 16, in our case).

I actually visited Cackle last Friday with my daughter. We were in SW Missouri and stopped at Lebanon on the way for the sole purpose of visiting Cackle. My daughter wanted to see the place where our chicks will come from. We ended up buying 4 more BO chicks because they were so cute.

Anyway, regarding picking up the chicks you ordered from Cackle, you can do it on Tuesdays and Thursdays only. I asked. But they have lots of varieties in the store-front.

 

[countrybum]

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Now why did you have to go and post that? Tuesday and Thursday, 2 hour drive for me.

I do not need any more chicks.

But I have room for quite a few more and I think I can blend them in well enough that hubby would never know.

 

[farmgirljen]

MIne were shipped all the way to Oregon, and I was very pleased with the order- in fact as soon as I get back from a vacation in a few weeks, I will be ordering another bunch of chicks from them...

 

[scbatz33]

The internet ordering can take a while. I ordered on line and got the same 10 day message. After 10 days I called. Here's how it works.....

You order online. The online site is managed by another company. Cackle downloads the orders weekly. They then enter each order by hand into their system. From there they decide who gets what when....This process seems to take longer at this time in the year because of the glut of orders. When I called in my order still had not been down loaded. I waited another week and called again when I hadn't received my confirmation.

With my second call I learned that my order was being held up and they just hadn't contacted me yet about the hold. I worked it out over the phone and my card was charged that day and my confirmation sent out via email. for delivery two weeks from that date.

I will be reordering from Cackle in about 2 weeks. I will DO IT OVER THE PHONE!!! It's just a more direct way of doing it. Plus, when I emailed my question it took them over 2 weeks to respond! Sometimes it's just better in person.

As for travel time, they ship out from the hatchery on Monday and Wednesday at 5 am. The boxes go to a USPS central location where they are scanned in and sorted then scanned out again and put on their truck to go to the airport. They are then flown to other airports. They are then loaded onto trucks and sent to another central USPS mail centers, scanned in, sorted and scanned out to be loaded on to regional trucks. The regional trucks ship them to the area post offices where they are again scanned in and sorted to local post offices and loaded onto another truck to send to you.

It's not like getting in your car and just driving directly. My post office in Reading gets all it's mail from Harrisburg. My chicks went from Cackle to where ever the local USPS is for them to their Airport (probably Springfield, MO ). I doubt it was a direct flight to Harrisburg - so the stop over in St. Louis or Chicago maybe Indianapolis...heck with the way airlines do stuff they may have gone to Denver!!! But they come off the airplane and put on a truck to the main USPS sorting DC in Harrisburg. Scanned, sorted and loaded on a truck to Reading. And, if I didn't live in Reading but in a nearby township, the Reading main office would have had to send them to the smaller post office! Good thing I live in a larger town!!!

Although they send them Express Mail, it still has to hit all those stops in between. I work for a sub-contractor for the USPS. I run regular mail from Springfield, MA to Jacksonville, FL. It takes us - all 4 drivers) 24 hours from DC to DC. That run is aprox 1100 miles and by mapquest should only take 17 hours. But we drivers have rules and what not to follow and the whole speed limit/governed truck thing really slows you down!!! And remember, that's DC to DC not post office to post office or from your hand to the receiver's hand - all those stops take more time and all that scanning and sorting!!!!

 

[Young MacDonald]

@ Countrybum - To torment you even more, you can go there any day and buy whatever they have. Their store front is right off off the main drag (Hwy 5, I think). It's just Tuesdays and Thursdays if you have ordered something- those are the only days you can personally pick up.

Thank God they are 3 1/2 hours from me or I would be there all the time. We just went to check out their operation on the way back to St. Louis from Mansfield and ended up buying 4 BO chicks because I am an addict and couldn't resist.

And my 9-year-old daughter didn't object to riding home with the babies on her lap.

 

[DeerFangRanch]

Overrun With Chickens: thanks for the info on shipping & ordering. I had ordered over the phone and got a shipping date - two weeks after order - as I placed my order (I'm better talking to real person than writing)

I've been trying to figure out if my order would make it on Tues or Wed. Still not sure (we are in a very small town in the mountains), but have more hope that they will be here by Wed at the latest. Ever the optimist, brooder will be up, running and ready by Sun pm

 

[countrybum]

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[Mahonri]

The only bad thing I've heard about Cackle lately was that they sent 50 chicks too many to a friend.... didn't charge them extra either.