State a fact about yourself!

[miss heny]

I think it's cruel, someone ordered some and only ONE lived! I think I call that cruel...

its the luck of the draw what happens. Sometimes its is to cold and such for the chick to survive, but without shipping birds would you have your chickens?

 

[PheasantsFirst]

Just saw that there is some petition like thing to get the usps to stop shipping birds. *shakes head

Not a lot of people look into a "problem" before they attempt to take action:

Why we ship:
- To get virtually any breed to virtually any location (within country limits)
- Without it, most breeders would go out of business due to lack of customers
- Most local farm stores wont be able to get chicks of their own
~ It's safe because most breeders box it well, the chicks have yolks to digest for the next 72 hours, it's takes no longer then 72 hours to arrive, and mail services are forced to take good care of the box

Why they hate it:
- They claim they are forced to go without food or water for up to 72 hours
- They claim they are pushed around inside the box almost contently
- They claim it's they are too cold inside the box
- They claim it's cruel to ship males as packing peanuts (which they do that, but only in some small-medium orders, and it's not cruel at all, at least considering what a lot of local and commercial farmers do to their males)

Perhaps I should have posted this, didn't expect so many responses. (Though I do agree with most posts).

 

[roostersandhens]

Is very worried.. My sick rooster just almost died, he is such a trooper. If he survives all this I will have to call him trooper-boy. I think he might have just had a seizure, but he seems fine now.. My poor Oreo.. All he has is a ear infection.

Oreo outside crowing - I took that picture a few months ago! I love that rooster!

 

[DuckRaiser]

its the luck of the draw what happens. Sometimes its is to cold and such for the chick to survive, but without shipping birds would you have your chickens?

Of COURSE I would! We picked ours up! No shipping! All survived!

 

[GimmeCake]

I think it's cruel, someone ordered some and only ONE lived! I think I call that cruel...

I find it sad myself when some die on the way, but truthfully it's the USPS's workers fault for accidents like that, not the fact they were shipped. But I find the losses of a few chicks isn't any worse then what would happen in the wild, or worse, a commercial egg factory.

 

[DuckRaiser]

Is very worried.. My sick rooster just almost died, he is such a trooper. If he survives all this I will have to call him trooper-boy. I think he might have just had a seizure, but he seems fine now.. My poor Oreo.. All he has is a ear infection.

Oreo outside crowing - I took that picture a few months ago! I love that rooster!

I hope he heals all the way!

 

[DuckRaiser]

I find it sad myself when some die on the way, but truthfully it's the USPS's workers fault for accidents like that, not the fact they were shipped. But I find the losses of a few chicks isn't any worse then what would happen in the wild, or worse, a commercial egg factory.

Ugh! Don't get me started on those poor factory chicks!

 

[GimmeCake]

I hope he heals all the way!

x2

 

[ShinShien]

its the luck of the draw what happens. Sometimes its is to cold and such for the chick to survive, but without shipping birds would you have your chickens?

Nope. Mine came from Connecticut.

 

[DuckRaiser]

Nope. Mine came from Connecticut.

I mean, would YOU like to be stuck in a box with no food or water for a couple days? Facing the cold and the heat?