McMurray's New Shipping Practices...has anyone heard about this?

[mrweaw]

I used to ship snakes via FedEx overnight and Lizards via UPS overnight or 2 day. I'm sure they would ship chicks if they ship reptiles. I had to go through a process to become certified to ship the snakes but it might be worth looking into.

 

[SeaHen]

That is disgusting and sad. My only experience with mail order birds was several years ago when I bought 8 ducklings and 2 goslings from Metzer. They all arrived alive, but one of the runner ducklings was weak and died later that day, another the following day, and the goslings both died mysteriously 4 weeks later. The losses were heartbreaking, and even though I didn't hold the hatchery responsible, I've avoided buying anything alive through the mail since. I love window shopping through the McMurray catalog and was seriously considering ordering some chicks from them this year, so I'm grateful for the reality check.

 

[DaKid]

Today I just received 1/2 my order from Murry McMurry

50 + chickens- meat birds and a few bantams , all arrived alive and well

Now all I have coming in from them is my 30 Turkeys , hopefully they be in 2-morrow

:cd

 

[lakeman]

I just ordered 25 chicks from Meyer (13 leghorns, and 12 sex links, all straight run), they are supposed to ship Monday, June 14th. My research showed that Meyer was the place to order my chicks from. I hope that I am correct.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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You could have the same losses from a feed store, too... since 99% of the time they ship their chicks in from the big hatcheries.

It's just like shipping eggs... it's a risk you take.

 

[curtismom]

I just received my order from my pet chicken - 8 hens total and all are fine so far

I have another batch of pullets shipping on the 19th from Ideal - I hope I receive them on Friday. I can't imagine them having to stay over the weekend at the post office. I will certainly be phoning the PO on Friday to see if they have arrived and checking to see if they are open on Saturday.

 

[AHappychick]

I just filled a small emergency order for chicks as a teacher had none hatch after ordering eggs from McMurry. I told her when she arrived (determined to have chicks to show the kids who had waited pantiently) that they were more of a live chick hatchery than a source for eggs. Then she told me how each egg grew a bubble and became stinky, one after the other so by the end she had thrown all out but 3. I can only assume she ment they were rotten and leaking (good thing they did not blow on her and the kids) which made me wonder how on earth did they send those eggs.

Anyway she went with 3 2 week old silkies (best I could do on short notice) and I told her that next time to get from a local breeder or friend who has a roo in their flock as opposed to a hatchery.

anyway just wanted to mention it.

 

[kfchickenlady]

wish me luck! waiting on a mcmurray hatchery order coming in tomorrow from mcmurray, my PO always calls....but I dont think I will do the hatchery route again, too nerve wracking! Im getting a lot of layers so thought this was the best way. Ive never had a problem before, ordered many times in the past 20 years, and Im hoping my luck holds one more time!!!

 

[plfreitag]

I order from Cackle Hatchery. They hatch on Monday and Wednesday & ship on Tuesday and Thursday. I've gotten live, noisy chicks each time. No problem at all. Of course, I chose the hatchery closest to my house, discounting the one with the reputation of bad birds. This time around I got 16 pullets (I ordered 15) and 1 cockerel, all Salmon Faverolles. They are so cute!!

2 weeks old and getting more cute every day


Trisha in MO

 

[IggiMom]

I get Golden Comets from Cackle, and I have done very well with them. No deaths, all good healthy birdies.

This may be the last time, as my plan is to breed my own sex links. FaerieSpuns!

Also I got some wonderful little lemon blue Modern Game Bird Banties from Ideal, along with some black Sex Links, and these banties did great. That was the only place I could find them, and so next year I will breed some of them for myself, also. I have not built their tiny coop yet.

But anyway, even though Ideal is in Texas, which is a lONG way from WV, the tiny banties still came just fine.

I have not gotten anything from McMurray for years, just because I usually try to go with the hatchery that has exactly what I want, and I also look carefully at prices, but in general, my birds from hatcheries have done well.

I had one batch several years ago that the PO sent to the wrong place, oddly, and they did not do well, AND they all got killed by a raccoon, not the hatchery's fault, of course, but they were poor doers from the start, but truly I believe this is the exception.

Catherine