my pet chicken reviews

[chickisoup]

I'm so sorry for your losses. I don't know why the chicks don't seem to do well on that route.




Alex
My Pet Chicken

Alex-nice to see you have re-appeared. As for chicks not doing well "on this route", I have no clue either. I have received small shipments in the past from as far away as Missouri and had the fluff balls arrive on time, happy and alert. (with zero losses). My guess is equal blame lies with the handling from the point of hatch and improper packaging by your supplier to careless handling and shipping timing by the USPS. Turned out to be an expensive lesson learned not just in dollars but in unnecessary stress and time (which happens to be a precious commodity to someone battling leukemia).

I really believe MPC has the potential to become a great company (you've nailed the "cute factor" that appeals to the small flock/pet market) and you are definitely filling a niche' in a booming industry. I just hope that you either get a better control/working relationship with your main supplier so you are able to improve the overall quality in shipping, packaging and supply or are able to find another supplier. If you don't should someone such as Cackle Hatchery, who has been in this business for many many years by doing things right, decides to expand their small order offerings, you could be in real trouble.

Just a few thoughts from a sadly, dissatisfied customer.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I got an email that my re- shipment of bantams (all died) will take place on June 27. However, it also states they are shipping from multiple warehouses. How can they do that? Does that mean I will get more than 1 box with less than the amount of chicks? When I ordered I thought they would all be together, hence how many I ordered.

I am really sorry for all your losses.

Of course they want to know if it's my brooder killing them. I assure you it is not. All the chicks I got to befriend what I thought was going to be the lone survivor are thriving. And I have not yet EVER lost a chick other than the shipment from MPC. I hope the next one goes better.

That being said, now I'm pretty stocked on first aid supplies from trying to save the last ones.

Does anyone know.... Do you have to do anything "special" for bantams? Is the standard chick waterer ok or is it still to deep for drowning?

After a couple days of hand watering the last surviving bantam I thought he could make it. But left to it's own devices, gave happy peeps every time we approached and right before passing. We were really hoping for that little one, made it 6 days. I guess next time I will be persistent for a longer period of time.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

@chickisoup I am sorry to hear you have leukemia! I always say my time is more valuable than gold. And you clearly understand what that means. People don't consider diabetes to be like cancer, but to me it is.

Anyways, here's to our health!

Best wishes, sincerely!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

@chickisoup
 I am sorry to hear you have leukemia! I always say my time is more valuable than gold. And you clearly understand what that means. People don't consider diabetes to be like cancer, but to me it is.

Anyways, here's to our health! 

Best wishes, sincerely!

Poop to cancer and diabetes, I had one and have the other. I have another order coming in two weeks, all large breeds, we will see how they do. I don't seem to have the troubles you have with shipping chckisoup which is weird as you are north of me I believe, though my last order went 50 miles north to Wausau for no reason, hopefully these are more direct. I don't think it's My Pet Chicken but the mail service that's bad, it shouldn't take 3-4 days for them to reach Wisconsin, and they shouldn't be getting routed to the wrong places like they do.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

@oldhenlikesdogs

to all illness! Even though I DON'T want to live forever.

Even though they send reshipment via express mail, we actually DON'T get express no matter what because of remoteness. Hoping for the best though!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

@oldhenlikesdogs
   to all illness! Even though I DON'T want to live forever.

Even though they send reshipment via express mail, we actually DON'T get express no matter what because of remoteness. Hoping for the best though!

Well we should be able to compare shipments, good luck for both our boxes of chicks.

 

[dekel18042]

Theoretically you should be able to treat chicks alike whether large fowl or bantam but some things you might want to consider or do differently since bantams are so tiny. You might want to throw their starter food into your blender or food processor to make it small enough for them to eat easily. You don't have to do this for large fowl peeps. After a few days when the chicks are grown and know where the food is, you can discontinue.
You might want to add enzyme powder or save-a-chick powder to their water to keep up their strength until they are growing on their own.
Until I learned these two tricks we lost bantams.

 

[chickisoup]

@chickisoup I am sorry to hear you have leukemia! I always say my time is more valuable than gold. And you clearly understand what that means. People don't consider diabetes to be like cancer, but to me it is.

Anyways, here's to our health!

Best wishes, sincerely!

Awww, thank you

Been dealing with it for quite a while but I am blessed with a great oncologist and he keeps me ticking. Boy, do I understand about the diabetes! I joined the T2 club a year ago. Ironically the drugs I take for the L reeked havoc with my pancreas causing me to develop diabetes. What a PAIN!!!
I was doing great with the whole eating thing, managed to even lose 30 lbs but as sweet and supportive my hubby is, it's been a never ending daily battle to make him understand what I should and shouldn't eat and I gave up trying with everyone else

I so understand about you feeling like it's cancer. In a very real way it truly is. It's incurable, you have to fight every day, (and no, it's not your fault you have it), it's a war you can never truly win and losing the battle can have some very devastating consequences. Sounds like a cancer to me.
(Honestly, I found fighting Leukemia easier, take a nasty pill, learn to live with the side effects, find your new normal and get on with living. This battling the stupid diabetes every day is TIRING!)

 

[chickisoup]

Poop to cancer and diabetes, I had one and have the other. I have another order coming in two weeks, all large breeds, we will see how they do. I don't seem to have the troubles you have with shipping chckisoup which is weird as you are north of me I believe, though my last order went 50 miles north to Wausau for no reason, hopefully these are more direct. I don't think it's My Pet Chicken but the mail service that's bad, it shouldn't take 3-4 days for them to reach Wisconsin, and they shouldn't be getting routed to the wrong places like they do.

Totally agree with the POOP thing! Have one and it gave me the other!

(probably the same with you. huh.)

A lot has to do with the USPS. They make promises that they can no longer keep, at least in Wisconsin.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Totally agree with the POOP thing!  Have one and it gave me the other!    (probably the same with you. huh.)

I've had juvenile diabetes since I was 10, so about 39 years of poking, and shots, about 8 each a day. The cancers were their own thing, but I think the diabetes helped with me developing bad arthritis.