How Does One Package Hatchlings For Delivery Service

[jabowery]

I want to send some hatchlings to some friends. What is the best way to package them and what service is best?

 

[sylviethecochin]

Hatchlings? Do you have chickens, quail, ducks, other? How far away do they live? Is your area moderately warm, or are you going to need to install heat packs?

Honestly, if I'm moving fowl, I try to do it personally, but that probably won't work if you're a long distance away.

 

[jabowery]

I use priority flat rate padded envelopes cut into strips and each egg is wrapped individually and placed inside a box lined with the padded envelopes. Also I place each egg with pointy end down. so air cells don't detach.
I'll try finding some pictures!

I'm confused. I thought the word "hatchling" meant a chick that had already hatched.

I'm trying to send some recently-hatched chicks.

Are you saying that you send eggs that are in, say, day 17 of incubation and you call those "hatchling eggs"?

 

[jabowery]

Hatchlings? Do you have chickens, quail, ducks, other? How far away do they live? Is your area moderately warm, or are you going to need to install heat packs?

Honestly, if I'm moving fowl, I try to do it personally, but that probably won't work if you're a long distance away.

We received our initial stock of chicks via mail order. But that was so many years ago that I don't recall how they were packaged nor which carrier service delivered them.

 

[sylviethecochin]

I think she misunderstood the question--no, eggs are not hatchlings. Chicks are hatchlings. And if you want to send chicks through the mail, you can do it at your local post office. IF YOU'RE NPIP.(tested for disease-free)

If you're not NPIP, you might try contacting your local feed store to ask questions or look up specialty shippers. Honestly, it would probably cost upwards of fifty dollars and you might as well take them yourself.

 

[jabowery]

I think she misunderstood the question--no, eggs are not hatchlings. Chicks are hatchlings. And if you want to send chicks through the mail, you can do it at your local post office. IF YOU'RE NPIP.(tested for disease-free)

How do you go about becoming NPIP?

If you're not NPIP, you might try contacting your local feed store to ask questions or look up specialty shippers. Honestly, it would probably cost upwards of fifty dollars and you might as well take them yourself.

Round trip from Iowa to Texas is going to be "upwards of fifty dollars", and that's not counting the time off from work I'd have to take.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Iowa to Texas. Ouch.
NPIP is a certification; I've never done it, but I've read that you pay about twenty-five dollars, the state vet (or equivalent) comes out and does a blood test on your birds (at least ten, I think?) and the license lasts for five years. I believe you have to have this certification to ship out of state, esp. to or from Texas and Florida(?)
Your county extension office is probably the place to start contacting people; the ones in my county (in PA) are usually pretty informed and helpful, if you get ahold of the right people.

 

[sylviethecochin]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/getting-testing-done-next-week.1202946/

 

[bobbi-j]

You might want to look into interstate shipping. There may be laws concerning health certifications, etc.

 

[sylviethecochin]

You might want to look into interstate shipping. There may be laws concerning health certifications, etc.

There are.