Shipping loss

[Cooper Farms]

What I don't get is if people lose so many when shipped in winter y do these places ship to where its realy cold?

 

[misbhaven]

Well unless it ideal or privetts most hatcheries are located in the midwest ohie and iowa mainly..so even if they are going to florida the are getting shipped thru the cold....I am less than 500 miles from most hatcheries so really makes no difference if order living in a cold climate the chicks are coming through here anyway. Te weather has been harsher than usual but those egss are set before weather conditions can even be guessed. I am in I'LL it is usually 20 degrees warmer

 

[rkellett]

I live in Vermont ant I always order from McMurrays hatchery. I have never received any dead chicks. I usually wait until March or April to order though

 

[cricketK9]

What I don't get is if people lose so many when shipped in winter y do these places ship to where its realy cold?

I live a CA, warmest place in the country right now

 

[Cooper Farms]

I live a CA, warmest place in the country right now

Ya it's warm where u live but here it's 0 and this is where so many of the hatcheries are

 

[seminolewind]

More chicks die from the cold stress.
I just got a box of 25 chicks, all crammed in, no heating pad. 2 were dead. I think it was lack of space . I don't understand why there's no heating pad. They were shipped from MI to Florida, we had 80 degrees.

Cackle offers smaller amounts with extra heat. I wonder if that would improve things.

I'm giving them mush, they seem to eat more of it. I also grind the chick crumbles smaller so they are easier to eat. Another 2 were weak and not eating, so I took them out every few hours and made mush in a cap and stood it in front of them and they ate like pigs.

 

[misbhaven]

I got a box of 18 dead chick this week..had a heating pad ..the airline sticker showed them arriving at 6:15 am yet my po was calling at 6:30 an hour away from the airport saying they were there...Peoria IL seems to be a kiss of death for chicks here they wait a day or 2 then don't call just put them on a cold truck the back of course...( which is bad in heat or cold)..

 

[seminolewind]

There are a few hatcheries that put heat pads in even with 15-25 chicks. I will always certainly ask from now on. I can't believe you got a box of dead chicks. That's absolutely horrible.

 

[Mtn Laurel]

I doubt that even heating pads would help if chicks need to go anywhere near the more northern states and could possibly be delayed due to weather. I was tracking a package [not chicks] this morning on the FedEx site and there was an alert on the top of the page saying that packages to the Pacific Northwest would be delayed due to snow and ice storms in the region.

First time I'd seen an alert of that type on any shipping page.

 

[Coralietg]

There is so much terrible weather in the country right now, I think shipping it going to be extra hard on the chicks. I had an order from McMurray that ended up shipping during an extra frigid time in February. The box of 27 arrived with about 6-8 dead. Over the next two days, all but 4 died in my hand. It was probably top 5 worst experiences I've had with chickens. McMurray redid the order, temperatures were better and "only" 5 or so passed.

So sorry for your loss, it is a horrible thing to go through.