Just bought a coop, now need some chicks!

[feliciadawn]

Hi,

So glad to find this forum! Please let this serve as both an intro and a query.

I want to freerange 3-4 hens in my fenced-in garden (image of garden attached). I just bought a small, portable coop that I plan to move around the garden as needed. My garden is sloped, and filled with a variety of plants, just perfect for chickens. All the birds in the neighborhood come by to forage, and I never even put out birdseed. Now I just need some chicks. I called the place where my friend just bought hers, all excited to make my order. They said they weren't sure if they would be selling day-old chicks over the next month, given the circumstances.

So I am looking for suggestions on how to get about 4 (gendered) female day-old (or youngish) chicks, of different varieties, in the Philadelphia area. I am not willing to drive more than an hour out of town, and I have to make the purchase keeping 'social distancing' because I am high risk if I were to get COVID-19 (respiratory condition). Any suggestions?

The list I made of desired hens based on the other place's inventory was as follows:
1 each of Easter egger, Plymouth barred rock, Golden Laced Wyandotte, Mottled Houdan.

thanks!

 

[Mvan42]

You can order them on line, some hatcheries will ship as low as 3 Meyer is one but the shipping is pricey.. Tractor supply or any farm supply store most have them now, even rural king carries chicks..

 

[EvaRay1525]

You can order them online and they can ship them to you but on the side note your yard is beautiful but just watch out for hawks. I had a 2 month old free range chicken that got snatched by a hawk. Try to keep an owl decoy by to scare hawks.