Need last minute instructions - picking up chicks tomorrow!

[cjeanean]

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If you have your heart set on certain breeds/combos I would just wait and get those breeds. (Patience, ME?? LOL!) if you just want to get your chicks as soon as possible regardless of the breeds or whatever then go ahead and see about changing the order. I know I wanted white cochins, white leghorns, white rocks, and dark cornish roos, and I have to wait till May 26 for mine. I could have substituted the cochins for something else and gotten them sooner, but I had my heart set on cochins, so I waited. I ordered back in March, and I'm glad I waited!!! I have a ton of stuff to do before fully being ready for the chicks!! (It didn't help that my feed store had a bunch of random breeds lying around, so since Feb 27 my house has been a brooder!) I mentioned what I've got coming in May, and I'll tell you what I have right now. This is all the result of going to the feed store with a few extra dollars than what I needed for feed. I have:
white leghorns
black jersey giants
rhode islans reds
new hampshire reds
buff orps
a barred rock(roo)
a mottled houdan (roo)
an EE (in the brooder)
two ameraucanas (babies)
and a salmon favorelle

If you're just chick happy and want some to stop the anxiety, buy a few random ones until you get your other order!!!! You'll regret it later, kinda like that whole "Try this drug once and you'll be addicted for life....." thing.

 

[backintime]

cjeanean, you've got it baaaaaad! I don't have the problem of "finding" chicks as I browse the feed store. There's only 1 feed store in a 60-mile radius around me, and it's the one I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to get chicks from. I would have done just what you did if there had been some other chicks there . . .

 

[playmeasong]

Hi backintime and others,
I ordered from Ideal and was pleasantly surprised with the order. I knew it was going to take a month to get them, but they moved the order up a week, and threw in 7 males in addition to the 7 pullets I ordered. One expired in the box, trampled, poor guy, one has a splayed leg, but the rest are great at 1 week! Perching too!
Ordering a month in advance was good for us as it gave me time to get the brooder and supplies ready. I know you already have the stuff ready, but for me, my brooder design changed a few times, and now at a week old, I need to move them to a borrowed brooder that is large enough to house that many.


Jen

 

[backintime]

Jen, glad to know of your experience with Ideal. But 7 roosters? I'm new to chickens and wonder if I'd be up to the job of "CULLING" 7 roosters out of my very first batch. What will you do with yours? I'd give them away, but I feel like I'm the only person in town that's even interested in chickens. Since I talk about them 24 hours a day after joining this forum, maybe I'll bump into more closet chicken lovers at the grocey store or the bank! Hee hee.