Hatchery Trouble

[bkosman]

Has anyone had any trouble with Meyer Hatchery in Polk Ohio? This will be my 3rd attempt at getting chickens. The last two times they were unable to fill my orders because of bad hatches. After the first bad hatch, they assured me they would have plenty of chickens to fill my order (475 projected hatch, I only wanted 75)...well they didn't have enough to fill my order, so I am ordering for a 3rd time with a pick up date of May 7th. I thought I would have been put on a priority list since the first order was delayed. Not a chance.....I have feeling they filled all the orders for the local farms stores and not mine.....due to the fact that more Urban Farmers are choosing to raise chickens. This is 2 months after I had originally ordered and expected to pick up my chicks. I am wondering if I should order from another company. Then I thought is was a sign that I really wasn't supposed to have chicks this year. I was half tempted to buy them from the farm store. Maybe next year I will have too.
I like to get them early so I can get a good start on the egg laying, but I will be way off this year. I also ordered Guineas for June,,,,,now I am getting nervous.
Let me know if you all have had any issues or can rcommend a hatchery, I have used Meyers for most of my chicks, other than a few store bought or ones I hatched myself, because I can pick them up right at Meyers, which is about 40 minutes from my home.

 

[Vamvakas]

Kinda happend to me last fall... I wanted 3 welsummer chicks and they called me like day 2 days before the arival and said "we can only give you 2" (I was like you dont have 1 extra welsummer chick in your whole hatchery....) Then when I got my 28 chicks of different breeds many were weak and runts and almost half died within the first 2 weeks, and the chicks that did make it they are still to this day are not growing as they should be... I personally would never order from meyer again. I would order from the bigger hatcherys like mcmurray's or ideal to get all they chicks you payed/wanted.

 

[Waltzing Matilda]

Vamvakas,

Interesting signature line. It's been a while since I read greek (30+ years), but I was able to read it!

r/Barb