Frustrated about the availability of chicks

[catsndogs4us]

You all be patient. In a couple of months there will be lots of started pullets for free when folks start to realize that they are more work and trouble than they thought, and that they won't get eggs for months yet.

I'll make sure there's room in my barn...after a good long quarantine period, to help some of these babies if any of this happens around my area.

 

[Iluveggers]

Wow that is bad. Another classroom hatch type problem is people (parents co-workers) who aren't prepared for chicks possibly wanting the chicks because of egg prices. We are classroom hatching this year but not offering the chicks that hatch far and wide. Just among us already crazy chicken peeps . And we're using our own eggs. Setting on the 31st, can't wait!

Smart!

I’ve only sent classroom chicks home with a student once. Spoke w the parents. They already had 4 hens, and were equipped to handle a few more. Dad even said they would not keep more than 1 rooster, and his kids knew the circle of life so if they ended up w a couple it would mean a nice dinner for his family.

 

[Sic]

It's the egg prices, people are panicking or they think it will be cheaper (lol) to raise chickens than to buy eggs.
I'm Glad I order December.
They sell out within an hour here.
Of course, in 4/5 months, we'll have a nice assortment of stated pullets available.

Egg prices really depend on where you live, here they're a dollar per egg, a little more actually as they're over $13 per dozen. It is cheaper for me to raise my own as all winter I've been getting 2 dozen eggs per day from 25 laying hens/pullets. My dogs eat a dozen per day and once a week I gift friends with a few dozen eggs. I have also freeze dried eggs for a few years so I will never be beholden to someone else. When they bring chicks into town they would usually be in the store for a couple days, this year they were gone within minutes. People don't want to pay astronomical prices for eggs, and you can't blame them for attempting to be self sufficient.

 

[2 Acres]

I think ours is between 5 and 8 each? I think my ducks were 8 each last year, but I honestly couldn't tell you

 

[2 Acres]

5.99 is what I have paid at TSC for this years chicks.

Wow

 

[2 Acres]

I'll make sure there's room in my barn...after a good long quarantine period, to help some of these babies if any of this happens around my area.

H5N1 what??? (wink)

 

[StinkyAcres]

I think ours is between 5 and 8 each? I think my ducks were 8 each last year, but I honestly couldn't tell you

5.99 is what I have paid at TSC for this years chicks.

Yeah, I paid $5.99-$9.29 per chick this year. They better be good, healthy chicks!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

What? It's not really that much

 

[2 Acres]

What? It's not really that much

I guess not considering my electric bill was a total of $281 during the cold snap and bitter negative temps, and wind chills.

 

[Traffie Chickens]

I also can’t find chicks anywhere! Not in stores, not online, nowhere!
We went to TCS the other day and we saw the chick bins and heat lamps on so we got excited, but there wasn’t a single chick. We talked to a worker and he said that there was a line of people going around the building and within 20 minutes of getting a shipment of 200 chicks, they were all gone.