Has Anyone Ever Ordered The Assorted Feather Leg Bantams from Ideal?

[brizzlequizzle]

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Wow.. How did you only order 3 chicks? Did it make the minimum of $20.00? I want a small order too, but I guess I am getting alot of males thrown in there too. I hope you do not get 17 packing peanuts!! Wish me the same. I did expect a few 3 or 4. Oh well... I have a local farmer that will take the boys, so I really don't need to worry. My Pet Chicken lets you order 3 at a time and they use a heat pack included in the box. You pay extra for the heat pack but at least you do not wind up with a mess load of roos. My Pet Chicken takes a long time to ship so thats why I went with Ideal this time. My DH is not going to be happy! Well good luck to you and post pics when yours arrive, I will do the same.

To make the minimum $20 purchase I bought a set of posters. XD
I would have ordered from my pet chicken, but they are not taking orders yet.
Hopefully you also don't get too many packing peanuts too. Luckily I also have a friend who lives on a farm, so he can take care of the extra chicks.

 

[brizzlequizzle]

One of my biggest fear is that I wont be able to tell the hens I ordered apart from the packing peanuts.

Has anyone else had this problem, or does ideal usually use a different breed for the packing peanuts?

 

[RendonRoo]

All my packing were rir's...or i think that's what they are. I'm guessing all roo's. My order was for feathered leggs so i'm sure which are packing. I've have read post that said they got the same breeds that they ordered. I think it depends on what they have extras of. Good Luck

 

[CBee]

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You can ask them to mark the peanuts for you (they did mine with a green marker on their heads), but it's really not necessary unless you ordered RIR pullets. RIRs are usually pretty easy to pick out.

Although, I'm not entirely sure they always use RIR males...it could just be whatever they have a surplus of. Try calling them and giving them your order number, and ask if you can have yours marked. That's what I did.