RP Order Placed! (sexing question & sponsor plug)

[jimmythechicken]

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i would brooder them together for the first week or so the chickens will show the turkeys how to eat an drink they are kinda dump an you have to keep showing them how to eat an drink. after a week or so they should get the hang of it an then you can seperate them.good luck

 

[Thomasturkey]

There is a lot of middle man hatchery opening up right now. My guess is the hatchery that you ordered from is not a hatchery at all. Your turkeys will most likely come from Cackle or Privett since they raise there own and will be shipped with the chicks. If they drop ship from other hatchery they will be shipped separate since most hatcheries do not hatch turkey eggs on there site.
I raise all my turkeys with chicks if I have them. They do fine without chicks if I don't have any at the time they hatch. This year my turkeys where laying before my chickens even thought about laying. I didn't have any problem getting them to eat. Just put the food all over the bottom of the brooder and dip there beaks in the water

 

[Burning Beard]

If it is true what you are saying, the place I may be getting these from may be sending me poults that are not actually day olds? That does worry me if the four I ordered need to ship to this particular hatchery and then be repackaged with my chicks and then sent to me. I can understand how the poults get stressed when I am already myself.

Anyone else experience this scenerio? Anyone else order from chickensforbackyards.com?

 

[Thomasturkey]

I have been sent thousands of dropped shipped poultry with no problem. They are always day old. Drop shipping is not bad unless the reason you ordered from them was that they are the closest to you. They do not ship them to the hatchery or (non hatchery) then ship again. They are shipped from who ever hatches them. The label will still give the name of your hatchery. The clue is when the post mark has a different zip code than the hatchery. Normally the zip code will be from the same zip code at Privett or Cackel or a private breeder that they contract with. Some examples of hatchery's that drop ship heritage turkeys are Ideal, Welp, Purely Poultry, and Strongbergs. From looking at the site you posted about, I would say they are not a hatchery.

 

[Burning Beard]

So I called the number on my invoice to confirm my order and I will know the end of next week when my shipment will be made since when I placed the order it only said shipment in May. I asked if they themselves were a hatchery and I was speaking with the "order office" and not directly to the "hatchery". They told me tat they have a number of hatcheries and both chicks and poults will be hatched and shipped together from the same hatchery.

I'm not sure if this confirms they are a hatchery or a broker but at least I know my order appears real and wherever they are coming from appears real. This conversation sound standard?

 

[MissTurkey4]

This is a little secret nobody want you to know.

This story about Purley Poultry tells you how these hatcherys are run. They don't own one chicken. http://www.purelypoultry.com/page.html?id=41



If you read welps site the word things to get you to think they have many hatchery's all over. These are there drop ship location. http://www.welphatchery.com/index.asp

 

[purelypoultry]

At the time of that article we did not own a chicken because i was in college trying to start a chicken business out of my dorm room. I now do have a few chickens of my own but our birds are still shipped directly from our suppliers to your post office. We are not trying to hide anything here. I believe that I can add value to the poultry world.