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DesertBird
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Chicks at feed store were also shipped and yes it MUST be hard work being that cute! Are you calling them 4 days from the day they were hatched or because they were posted as day olds? Point being, many chicks are at least a few days old by the time they make it to their bin. I don't vaccinate.
This is my first season with Australorp, so far good enough. Buttercups would be fun!
Congrats on your new babies.
I've received plenty a cockerel sold as pullet. But with my high volume, it still does average less than 10%... though some incidents have been 100% male.Most have been 100% female... still well within the average with the mishaps.
According to the employee's at TSC, they were shipped the day they hatched and got to the store near me by day 3. I bought the chicks yesterday, so they should've been about 4 days, maybe 5 days now? And thanks! The Australorp's are pretty spunky, and like running after my finger - are yours like that, or could I have ended up with cockerel's? Hoping they're just spunky little girls!
The Buttercups are being sold as the wrong breed, but in hindsight, that's not too bad - as long as they're girls. lol I mainly only got the Buttercups because they were supposed to be pullets, and the only other pullets they had aside from Australorp's were RIR's - I don't need more of those bullies! 
Hoping whatever they are is docile and not flighty like the Buttercup's would've been.. I'm using unmedicated feed and they're not vaccinated, but every little water drop they spill so far I cover with more bedding and will be changing the bedding every 3-4 days. Is that too many times? These girls seem a little more messy than my last two groups! It is hotter, though, so I put a frozen water bottle in with a rag on it again in one corner of their tub.
