Frustrated about the availability of chicks

[Iluveggers]

They updated today in a response to someone's comment that there was damage to only 4 of the barns. That's great news, as hopefully shouldn't impact most of the orders, and the hatchery should be able to stay open and generate revenue.

 

[2 Acres]

Tractor supply gets their chicks from hoover. No hatchery vaccinates unless you specifically ask for it

Found that out.

On another note... Family Farm and Home sold out of Chicks in one Saturday. Over 300 in total.

 

[DonyaQuick]

Sorry, it would have been helpful to show what they actually said. I have a habit when reading things on social media to simply close the page without saving a link... in this case I instantly regretted it after I hit the X but I was mentally tired from the hunt for info, lol.



Good point. I saw a follow-up post where they were praising the Amish, saying "Look how fast they build back" and the picture was of a long length of fresh roof trussing. Looked like a new roof for a barn.

The wording they used when announcing the damage caught my eye. It was "damaged some of our 85 barn locations". I wondered if I interpreted that wrong, but it sounded like locations meant different sites rather than 85 barns on the same property? I also focused on the "damaged" and "some of". So it's hard to say what flocks are housed where... and maybe some ambiguity about infrastructure on Cackle's part is purposeful, for security reasons?

I don't know if it's nearly the same with poultry, but many plant seed vendors are working in partnerships with independent farms. A farm may specialize in one variety of cantaloupe (which helps prevent cross-pollination) and they send the seed in to the vendor who packages and sells it. That same farm may grow some other kinds of produce, but none of the farms grow everything. I suppose that also acts as insurance against climate / pest events, and so forth.

I would expect that any Cackle customers impacted by this event would be notified fairly soon. The hatchery must know what they need their breeding population to be like to fulfill current orders on the books. It would be disappointing to hear otherwise...

I wasn’t trying to be dramatic, apologies if that was the result. It was just a thing that made me realize I wasn’t as detached from the supply issues as I originally thought even thought even though I’m to be hatching soon. Saw it in my phone, posted from my phone as am now, not as easy to lookup/copy/paste. Then about a half hour later my PC wasn’t an option to dig it up since power went out for a couple days. Didn’t think at the time that info like that would literally be only on FB and nowhere else, which I now find really weird tbh. If I had known that at the time, probably wouldn’t have said anything. I think I saw there was another thread on byc just on that event so I won’t post more on it here since my intent wasn’t to derail into that. If I find the original post from my PC later I can put it there.

 

[NatJ]

I think I saw there was another thread on byc just on that event so I won’t post more on it here since my intent wasn’t to derail into that. If I find the original post from my PC later I can put it there.

This may be the thread you were thinking of:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cackle-hatchery-tornado.1655964/

I agree it would make sense to post any other information in that thread.

 

[Mountain Roost]

No hatchery vaccinates unless you specifically ask for it

That what I always thought too. Until I found this:


I found the double negative to be confusing at first. And the default setting was to have them vaccinated. You still get the choice, but it is an option to opt-out instead of opt-in.

 

[yakitori]

That what I always thought too. Until I found this:
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I found the double negative to be confusing at first. And the default setting was to have them vaccinated. You still get the choice, but it is an option to opt-out instead of opt-in.

that’s so interesting!

 

[yakitori]

egg prices already going down, I feel there’s going to be a surge of people selling their new flocks for cheap soon. l

 

[Gazergirlstar]

egg prices already going down, I feel there’s going to be a surge of people selling their new flocks for cheap soon. l

hey better for us lol
scoop half grown chicks up for cheap

 

[2 Acres]

egg prices already going down, I feel there’s going to be a surge of people selling their new flocks for cheap.

 

[2 Acres]

My local Family, Farm and Home ... sold out of 300 chicks in one day