Privett hatchery

[BroodyHuman]

Newly hatched chicks survive on their internal yolk sack up to 3 days I've read. I've had birds delayed up to 48 hours but they were juveniles, not chicks. 12 hours is nothing. Still, be prepared to lose a chick or two. Not all chicks survive even in ideal situations. Sad but true. My Dominique chicks I ordered through my local feed store who orders all his stock from Privett. All 3 of the Dom chicks I brought home survived but when they were a year old I did lose one Dom hen to heatstroke when our temps got to 122 degrees one day!!! Good luck with your new babies! What breed are you getting?

I'm waiting on Blue Australorps, Crele Penedesencas and assorted Sumatras. I was mostly worried about the added stress of just sitting around in a box. Maybe I'm just a helicopter mom after all.

A couple months ago I ordered some chicks through Hoover, which is supposed to be in Iowa. After they were sent and i got my tracking number I found out they were actually coming from Minnesota! Being in AZ if I'd known that I wouldn't have ordered. Iowa is far enough and i already don't like ordering from places that are too different from my own climate. According to tracking they left out Wednesday night... like late night. Which I thought was weird. They got to Phoenix like 1 am Friday morning and just barely missed the truck that comes out my way, so basically sat in Phoenix for 24 hours until the next truck coming to my office! They finally showed up late Saturday morning and all were dead. I'm pretty sure if they were sent out earlier on Wednesday I would have gotten live chicks. I was very upset to say the least.
MS isn't a difference between north/south, they're just going sideways from NM, and weather is still pretty mild right now, so I'm betting you're babies will be ok.

I'm sure y'all are right. I'm still nervous. They still haven't moved. At this point I'm expecting them all to be expired. I had bad feelings about ordering chicks instead of eggs.

 

[Sylvester017]

I'm waiting on Blue Australorps, Crele Penedesencas and assorted Sumatras. I was mostly worried about the added stress of just sitting around in a box. Maybe I'm just a helicopter mom after all.

Sounds like a beautiful assortment of birds!


I'm sure y'all are right. I'm still nervous. They still haven't moved. At this point I'm expecting them all to be expired. I had bad feelings about ordering chicks instead of eggs.

If the chicks are indeed all exactly hatched on the same day that they're shipped they should survive. But I suspect the hatcheries ship various ages in which case the older ones have no yolk sac left to survive on and need beaks dipped in water and chick mash available whereas the younger chicks still have some yolk sac left to survive on until they reach their destination. I believe you are going through the anxiety all of us feel when expecting a shipment of birds. I and my cross-state breeder both hold our breath whenever she ships me a pair of juveniles (2 months or older) and we both keep tracking until the birds have safely arrived! Breeders I trust are the ones that wait until the chicks are old enough to survive a cross-country trip -- especially the rare breeds because genetically they aren't always as hardy as the more common chicken breeds. Shipping stress has often occurred in my juveniles in the form of coccidia so I keep Corid and Chick Probiotics on hand for new arrivals and immediately take a fecal sample to my vet for testing for worms or coccidia.

I'm surprised that hatcheries are still shipping chicks with Newcastles cases getting reported around the country. We've had 3 cases reported in cities in our valley. I know some online private breeders stopped shipping birds as far back as May this year because of reported Newcastles cases. My vet warned me not to import any new birds onto my property for a while.

When your babies arrive, let us know as we're on pins and needles too.

 

[BroodyHuman]

If the chicks are indeed all exactly hatched on the same day that they're shipped they should survive. But I suspect the hatcheries ship various ages in which case the older ones have no yolk sac left to survive on and need beaks dipped in water and chick mash available whereas the younger chicks still have some yolk sac left to survive on until they reach their destination. I believe you are going through the anxiety all of us feel when expecting a shipment of birds. I and my cross-state breeder both hold our breath whenever she ships me a pair of juveniles (2 months or older) and we both keep tracking until the birds have safely arrived! Breeders I trust are the ones that wait until the chicks are old enough to survive a cross-country trip -- especially the rare breeds because genetically they aren't always as hardy as the more common chicken breeds. Shipping stress has often occurred in my juveniles in the form of coccidia so I keep Corid and Chick Probiotics on hand for new arrivals and immediately take a fecal sample to my vet for testing for worms or coccidia.

I'm surprised that hatcheries are still shipping chicks with Newcastles cases getting reported around the country. We've had 3 cases reported in cities in our valley. I know some online private breeders stopped shipping birds as far back as May this year because of reported Newcastles cases. My vet warned me not to import any new birds onto my property for a while.

When your babies arrive, let us know as we're on pins and needles too.

Just finished getting everyone settled in. Everyone survived the trip. 10 blue Australorps, 10 Crele Penedesencas(2 or 3 boys & the rest girls) 3 splash Sumatra and 2 black.

Started them on a homemade herbal medicated chick starter + scratch and peck organic chick starter and probiotic/vitamin/electrolyte water.

The tracking never got updated. According to tracking the chicks are still in New Mexico. Got a call from the post office at 6 am for pick up.

Panic attack over. Will attach photos once my phone is charged.

 

[Sylvester017]

Just finished getting everyone settled in. Everyone survived the trip. 10 blue Australorps, 10 Crele Penedesencas(2 or 3 boys & the rest girls) 3 splash Sumatra and 2 black.

Started them on a homemade herbal medicated chick starter + scratch and peck organic chick starter and probiotic/vitamin/electrolyte water.

The tracking never got updated. According to tracking the chicks are still in New Mexico. Got a call from the post office at 6 am for pick up.

Panic attack over. Will attach photos once my phone is charged.

What a great relief! Sometimes tracking really sucks but the USPS seems to be doing a lot better in my city to immediately notify me when a shipment of birds is in. Several years ago one of our mail carriers was driving around with an order of my birds in his hot little truck! If it wasn't for my breeder emailing me that I should have the birds already I called my local post only to discover to my horror that the mailman was driving around with my poor little birds! I gave it to them with both barrels and he immediately was sent to deliver my birds to the door! USPS is supposed to call customers for pickup but that one time years ago they didn't follow their own policy. Since then I make sure the breeder writes in bold marker pen CALL CUSTOMER FOR PICKUP with my telephone number written on BOTH sides of the shipping crate! When birds are shipped cross-state the post offices and FedEx slap their labels all over the parts of the shipping boxes that wind up covering the words that are printed LIVE BIRDS on the box -- that's when I started insisting my breeders scrawl my phone number boldly on both sides of the shipping crates.

Looking forward to seeing pics after the your babies get settled in!

 

[BroodyHuman]

 

[BroodyHuman]

Sorry it took so long. We have been building a cabinet bator and a brooder room for all of our babies. Everyone survived and no pasty butt thanks to a rigorous nutritional and environmental regimen. Thanks for reassuring me, yall. It means a lot.

 

[cactusrota]

Look at all those cute little fuzzbutts!!!!!!