My Pet Chicken (Hatchery)

[djaousfarm]

Is it me, or is it kind of odd that the Hatchery "My Pet Chicken" takes pictures of Meyers Hatchery and sells their birds? Also, the prices are unbelievably high.

What are peoples experiences with the "My Pet Chicken" Hatchery?

 

[MyPetChicken]

My Pet Chicken and Meyer Hatcher have a partnership that allows us to ship from their facility. We do own our own flocks and sell many breeds that they do not carry.

Thanks for tagging me @Blooie


Please let me know if I can answer anymore questions.

Alex
My Pet Chicken

 

[cloverhillsfarm]

I can't say that I'm very happy with MPC. I ordered 7 day old female chicks from the company in the fall of 2017, two of which were their proprietary breeds (super blue egger-$30, blue favaucana-$28) that were super expensive, but we were only planning on a small flock, so I was okay spending a little extra money to get what I really wanted. I also ordered a barred rock, a black copper maran, an easter egger, a golden laced wyandotte, and an australorp, each $3-4. Oh, and shipping was $45!!! They were shipped on the date I had chosen and arrived at the post office two days later. Initially everyone looked happy and healthy. All were active- eating, drinking, pooping, etc. However, the next day, the "super blue egger" was starting to act lethargic. I picked her up to examine her, only to realize that she had 5 toes, which was not characteristic of the breed. I couldn't find anything obviously wrong with her, so i called mpc to alert them of the sick chick and that she was the wrong breed. The next morning she died, so it was still within their 48 hour refund window. While customer service was very nice, they kinda gave me the run around with the refund. First I had to send pictures of the dead chick...then they wanted pictures of each individual chick to "help me find which one was the super blue egger," which doesn't sound that bad, but every other chick I ordered was a brown or black chick. The super blue egger was the ONLY yellow chick in the bunch. They tried to tell me that this was a splash favaucana (which it wasn't- I had a blue chick that was obviously the favaucana), then maybe a salmon faverolle, which I hadn't ordered. I didn't really care what it was, I just wanted my refund. After 2-3 days of hassle, customer service finally issued my refund.
Ok, drama over...so I thought. The remaining six chicks were happy, healthy, and grew like crazy. My daughter's favorite quickly became the Australorp chick, who was very friendly and always willing to be handled. The golden laced wyandotte was SUPER skittish, but the others were reasonably friendly. All was good until the chicks were about 14-15 wks old, when I started hearing strange sounds from the coop...within a few days it was obvious that I was hearing someone's first attempts at crowing. Fantastic. Now I just had to figure out which chicken it was. Any guesses as to which chick it was? Yes, it was the very friendly Australorp...my daughter's favorite...AND the wyandotte. That's right...2 roosters out of 6 "hens" ordered. So much for MPC's 95% accuracy that they claim to achieve (67% is what I received)! So we didn't want roosters, but I was going to give them a chance. However, our Australorp went from a friendly chick to a MEAN rooster practically overnight. He would peck/bite any time I got near the food or the other girls. I had to wear gloves/long sleeves to prevent him from drawing blood. He crowed ALL THE TIME. The last straw was when, totally unprovoked, he attacked my daughter when she walked into the chicken pasture. Into the stock pot he went after that. The wyandotte has been much better behaved so far. MPC issued a refund for the 2 roosters ($8.15), but no credit given for shipping. All in all, I spent $132 for 7 chicks, including shipping. I was refunded a total of $36.65 for the dead chick and roosters, resulting in a final cost of $95 for 4 hens...yes...crazy, huh? Maybe one will end up laying golden eggs? Since we needed more eggs than the 4 hens will provide, I had to buy more chicks this spring from the local feed store... 2 ameraucanas and 2 welsummers...for the grand total of $14.
Believe it or not, I still wasn't all that put out with the company. I mean, mistakes happen, right? I had even considered ordering more chicks from them before I found the ones at the feed store. However, the final straw was when I left a review of the australorp on their website, which was somewhat negative, but they never posted it. Nothing bothers me more than a company that filters "product" reviews. It makes any reviews on their website useless. So, if you are considering ordering from MPC, just realize that they do not post all reviews, so you can't really trust the reviews for accuracy, shipping is terribly expensive and not refunded, even for their mistakes, and sexing accuracy is questionable.

 

[Nksg75]

I'll chime in also!! I purchased 15 chicks from them Jan 2017!! All are still thriving today(minus one buff who unfortunately didn't see that hawk)
AnywY, I am in Texas, and I was sooo worried about the shipping times and possibly opening up a box to dead chicks. All arrived in less than 24 hrs after they were shipped. I was constantly nagging MPC while they were in transit, and they kept reassuring me!! Felt good to have great customer service!!!

 

[HBRRanchCO]

Update: My 12 chicks arrived last Wednesday! As of tonight they’re all still alive and seem to be doing great. As far as I can tell they are all the breeds I ordered, but I won’t be able to tell for sure for a few weeks...and of course sexes. So far I’d be happy recommending MPC!

 

[Sphynxlover]

They don't post all the reviews!? That is defiantly sketch and makes me kinda upset. I bought my chicks based on the reviews.

 

[jesslie.sim]

I'm happy that I didn't experience a box of dead chicks or similar, however, I have had a very time-wasting frustrating time dealing with this company. I thought I was ahead of the curve this season ordering 15 chicks in early December while not needing them until late February, as well as their Bungalow coop with an extra nesting box. I had a little difficulty due to the fact that their website wasn't user friendly and there was a page of their inventory I missed, but when I called they changed my order free of charge because of the understandable error and I thought I was doing great!
My coop arrived when expected and I promptly stained and weatherproofed the wood. I heard back from the company saying that, while they were currently out of extra nesting boxes, there'd be more in March. This was no problem since my birds wouldn't need the coop until after then.
Next I get a call two days before my supposed ship date of late February and am told that I won't be able to get my requested order for chicks until May and ADDITIONALLY I have to make compromises with the breeds at that time. I wouldn't be compensated for this delay or the breed change.
This, even after making sure that my order was in an entire season in advance! This was bad news and ultimately unacceptable. I talked to another hatchery and had to order a straight-run, but I got my desired breeds promised to me as good as shipped by the very next week. I canceled my chick order with MPC.
Now its early April and I've checked in several times to get the extra nesting box I need for my flock and have been turned away each time. I will have to buy an entirely new coop. I found a very similar coop with the two nesting boxes at for an even cheaper then the one-nest-box coop I purchased with My Pet Chicken, and it will arrive soon. I will have to sell the old one for a reduced price and re-stain and weatherproof the new one, but there are no other options for me based on the size of my flock and the space I have for my coop.
For the folks that are having a good experience with this company, I'm glad for you. At best they were a waste of money and time for me.

 

[lilmillefleur]

I thought MPC was fine, I guess...the first time we bought from them. Ordered six sexed bantams, the porcelain d'uccle died shortly after arrival. One of the polish developed scissor beak and died after a few months, but we thought we just happened to be one of the unlucky ones, as EE and polish are more prone to it anyway. 3 of them are still alive and healthy today.
So we ordered a second time. 6 chicks again. All are healthy, active and friendly, but....today I noticed the porcelain d'uccle has started to develop a scissor beak at only like a week old. I am incredibly pissed. Is this really just luck??? Are we cursed to never, ever own a porcelain d'Uccle??? I don't want to buy from a hatchery again honestly...what with the shipping stress and the defective birds we keep getting.

 

[Blooie]

My Pet Chicken and Meyer Hatcher have a partnership that allows us to ship from their facility. We do own our own flocks and sell many breeds that they do not carry.

Thanks for tagging me @Blooie


Please let me know if I can answer anymore questions.

Alex
My Pet Chicken

Absolutely, Alex. Um, does this mean I can stop poking around looking for the thread where you explained that before?

 

[MyPetChicken]

Absolutely, Alex. Um, does this mean I can stop poking around looking for the thread where you explained that before?

LOL yes you can stop digging for that post. I don't even know what thread it was on.


Alex
My Pet Chicken