Nope. Because we are a commercial egg farm, we have for the last 13 years bought "started pullets" which need only 6 weeks or so to go until lay. It is a lot easier than starting from chicks, but there are few options. They almost all have trimmed beaks and have been cage raised, so when we put them on the floor they are lost and frightened. We usually buy from Meyer Hatchery in Ohio and drive down to get them (about 3 hours) but when we wanted them two years ago they told us sorry, a bigger buyer took them all. So I found a listing on Craigslist, ordered them for the next available date, and when we went to get them found they had been kept in crates in a stock trailer in below zero weather. Although it wasn't evident at the time, most had severe comb damage and between the crates and the freezing, probably half of the 250 lost part of one or more toes. Peg is the worst, she lost all her toes to frostbite as her leg was stuck out the side of the cage and the cage was packed full. She's 2 1/2 now, and about ready to meet the stew pot, but her lack of toes has never posed a problem for her. She learned to hop using her wings for balance and slept on the floor at first, but once her toes sloughed off and her foot healed, she learned to do everything just like the others.
That last batch was so bad it soured me on started birds. There were blind birds, runts, some have never laid an egg. That's why I'm hatching this year.
no!
that's nothin on what some of these others hatch... Pretty good turn out so far for me tho
suppose I should go out and play n the yard while the weather's nice too 
