Fuzzy chick pic heavy- my new McMurray chicks

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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.

Yes, I think I do about average- but really I would think I would need to take a poll for the average mortality. I have read others saying they lose one or two in a batch. I think it is nature's way of culling the internal deformities, personally. Or maybe stress from shipping.

 

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Thank you for the compliments everyone!!!!!

Here is where they are going to grow out (the pen to the right which is covered with 2" metal chicken wire to protect against hawks):
(It is bigger than it looks- it keeps going past the firewood= around 25 feet long or so)