we got some chicks from poultry hollow in may this year and I would not recommend going there and getting chicks....I did not like the condition the chicks were living in...all of the brooders were in a old barn and in the brooder boxes it looked like it had not been cleaned out in forever...all of the chicks were just walking in poop. in some of the brooders she did not even know what breeds were in there I wanted a light brahma and she was going to give me a white rock...then I told her I wanted splash silkies...well I got partridge instead...the birds that she does not use in her breeding program are free ranged and they are beautiful...but I am sure if the breeding birds are taken care of anything like the chicks are they look horrible...but if you just want to get chicks and dont really mind what condition they live in before you bring them home then it is a good place to get chicks because she does have alot of different breeds ...but I will never go back again....the chicks we got from poultry hollow are beautiful and now as far as I know healthy...but recently we have had 3 to die when the first died they were 14 weeks and the 3rd just died 1 week ago...we contacted UT extension and the doctor there told us that is was mareks I am still not 100% sure that it is mareks and I never will be until we have a necropsy done...but if it is mareks the only place it could have come from that I know of is poultry hollow...because we have brought no other birds in and there has never been another chickens close enough to spread to them...the closest chickens to ours is 1/2 mile away....I am still hoping that it is not mareks...I stoped using a water hose to fill their water containers hoping maybe the the lead in the hoses is what made the 3 chicks die...their symptoms are for the first day very sleepy all of the time just laying around..early 2nd day hard to stand not balance late second day cant walk at all when I stand them up they just fall over...yet when I lay them on their back and push on their feet they push back...3rd day death one did not even make it to the 3rd day...she died the 2nd night....so I am not sure what it could be....but anyway I would not go to poultry hollow..if I could I would go back in time and stop myself from getting those chicks...I love them but now I would have rather got what I wanted from a breeder....but my 33 chicks that I got from TSC were very healthy I have never had a problem out of them...only one bantam died 2 days after we got him...and until 4 weeks ago I had only lost 2 out of 60 chicks. so from now on I will only buy my layers from TSC and my breeding birds from other breeders
