Teacher Seeking Chicken Help! (What to do with chicks after?)

[chickenlover456]

For a school project, we are hatching chicks! The children are very excited. My only delemma is what to do with the chicks after they are hatched. Unfortunatley, I myself cannot keep the little darlings for too long, maybe 2-4 months. I live in Silicon Valley, California and would love to know the name of a friendly hatchery where my chicks could be given to when they are 4-6 months old. Thanks so much!

 

[mrsengeseth]

If after you hatch, you place an ad in craigslist, I am sure that someone would take them off your hands. (and likely they'll come to you to come get them too!)

Not only that you can place an ad HERE at BYC and someone here would probably love to come take them off your hands.

 

[willowcol]

I don't think I would send them to a hatchery, but maybe a BYC member would get them. Or better yet send notes home with the kids asking if any of the parents want to adopt them when you are done.

 

[chickenlover456]

Thanks so much!

 

[hatchcrazzzy]

who you trying to fool you will keep them you will get addicted like us lol

 

[chickenlover456]

Probably true, I adore chickens!

 

[Fudgie]

When the small kids do the incubation project here, they are asked to talk to their parents and see if they are allowed to bring one home. All the kids that parents have said yes, their names go in a hat and are drawn out, when the chicks are all gone, thats it!

 

[MicMoo]

Quote:
That's how I got my chickens. A school teacher hatched them as class project and after they were feathered out she listed them on CraigsList... then I drove about 120 miles round trip to pick them up

. The ad said there was a cost, but when we met she just gave them to me for FREE.

edited by MicMoo to properly quote mrsengeseth

 

[Fresh Eggs]

Hi,


Post on craigslist, I live in the silicon valley too! My 26 chicks are coming at the end of this month, in two weeks.

 

[chickenlover456]

Hopefully someday I'll be able to hatch and KEEP my own. I just know that I'll get attached to them. Chickens are wonderful animals.