Fuzzy chick pic heavy- my new McMurray chicks

[ChickensAreSweet]

Here are my new chicks, received in the mail on Jan. 31st from McMurray Hatchery!
Here they are as of this morning!!! In the garage in a brooder: (there is plexiglass on the front of the brooder for those eagle-eyed BYC'ers who check for drafts)

I ordered White Orpingtons
Buff Orpingtons
Buff Minorcas
Black Australorps
Black Jersey Giants
EEs
Delawares
Partridge Rocks
One free chick

Thank you for looking at the new fuzzy butts!!!
I hope you got your fuzzy butt fill for a few minutes at least until someone else posts theirs!!!

 

[mychookschick]

Cute! Good luck with those little cuties!

If you don't mind my asking, did you lose any?? I was wondering what the average loss rate is on shipped chicks... I haven't done this yet and was just curious... In case there was ever a breed that I wanted and couldn't get through the feed store.

 

[ARose4Heaven]

I would post pics of mine came 29th from McMurray, but I have already plastered them all over BYC! I ordered 102, recived 109 w 1 DOA. Lost 3 more later to pasty butt. Haven't lost any since. All seem healthy.

Oh well, I just can't resist....

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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All arrived alive - but I have lost one so far to an unknown cause. This is the normal rate of loss for me with shipped chicks. They sent me 27- I had ordered 25 plus one free chick.

Even in the summer I usually lose one or two per batch of 27-28.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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What cutie-pies!!!

 

[coloradochick]

Ohhh I can't wait until we are able to order babies again

You've got some cuties there

 

[mychookschick]

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All arrived alive - but I have lost one so far to an unknown cause. This is the normal rate of loss for me with shipped chicks. They sent me 27- I had ordered 25 plus one free chick.

Even in the summer I usually lose one or two per batch of 27-28.

Ok... So in general that is pretty good right?

I ordered some through my local feed store in spring 2009 and I got all of them alive and never lost one! That was my very first chickens! I have only ever lost one and I never even saw it alive... I let Mama hatch some out and by the time that I found the chick on hatch day it was dead. it looked like it barely gotten out of the shell before it died.

 

[theoldchick]

Awesome photos!

 

[chickerdoodle]

I want to pick them up and kiss all of them!!

 

[chickens rule123]

ugh you getting me jealouse our dont' get here till april

and they are the cutest things ever