Surviving Minnesota!

[Bogtown Chick]

I see some little rosy wattles there holms. Cute as buttons.

Don’t call it a rooster! I’m hoping for a good Pullet! It should

 

[xXStringbeanXx]

Have you guys gotten chicks from the Duluth post office before? Do I get called right away or do I have to request that? Hoping to get them before I need to go into work so I need to hear from them by like 7am. Don’t know what to expect and the anticipation is killing me

 

[Cebarmlds]

You'll have a tracking number, when it says they are being delivered to the post office drive over and wait for the doors to be unlocked. My PO didn't call, I was there beforehand. Maybe they would have but I wasn't waiting for them to get around to it.

 

[I Love Layers]

Have you guys gotten chicks from the Duluth post office before? Do I get called right away or do I have to request that? Hoping to get them before I need to go into work so I need to hear from them by like 7am. Don’t know what to expect and the anticipation is killing me

Give the PO a call saying that you will have a shipment of live chicks coming between this day and this day. And to give you a call at this number and this number when they arrive. Most POs are pretty good about when they are peeping to call you right away, I have gotten calls at 5:15am from my PO before that I have birds or chicks in

 

[I Love Layers]

This is one of my Grandpas Longhorn bulls, I want to breed this one to my Jersey heifer to in July

Here are some eggs that relatives and friends made that my Grandma has. I will get pictures of some of the ones we made this weekend

 

[ejb3810]

Stringbean, I can tell you the people at the Michigan Street PO facility have been very good about calling me. I have had many shipments of live birds and have been called at 10:00 at night if that is when the truck came in. Generally I get called at 6:00 in the morning. My boxes are marked with my info including phone number. The only chickens I received by PO shipping was 3 started trios of bantam Brahmas. Dead on Arrival. The problem I have had is taking 6 days when 3 day delivery is guaranteed. Thankfully the birds I have shipped in although still very young are also very hardy.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . 15 degrees here .

 

[duluthralphie]

Still chilly here..

 

[xXStringbeanXx]

Stringbean, I can tell you the people at the Michigan Street PO facility have been very good about calling me. I have had many shipments of live birds and have been called at 10:00 at night if that is when the truck came in. Generally I get called at 6:00 in the morning. My boxes are marked with my info including phone number. The only chickens I received by PO shipping was 3 started trios of bantam Brahmas. Dead on Arrival. The problem I have had is taking 6 days when 3 day delivery is guaranteed. Thankfully the birds I have shipped in although still very young are also very hardy.

Thank you and the others for the reassurance. I’ll call them just to be sure as soon as I have shipping information this morning.

 

[holm25]

I was going to take pictures of all the calves but decided a short video of them would be easier...