Tractor Supply has chicks!!!!!

[GirlsHuntToo]

Sick chicks definitely aren’t fun they’re all labeled correctly here but we still get sick chicks. I wonder if that’s just a mass hatchery thing that happens, I believe here it has something to do with them being HEAVILY inbred

Also when some cicks are born they seem fine but give them 3 days they start going down hill. Sometimes you just don’t know until it’s too late. I’ve had this happen before too.

 

[McChooky]

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If I'm near a Rural King or Tractor Supply I'll go in just to see their chicks lol

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Also when some cicks are born they seem fine but give them 3 days they start going down hill. Sometimes you just don’t know until it’s too late. I’ve had this happen before too.

Yep got a Mille Fleur sablepoot chick with splay leg once, she was doing wonderfully with recovery but 3 days later she passed away. I didn’t see it happen, there were no physical injuries, I think she was eating and drinking she even had normal energy levels. Her sister who not splay legged lasted 5/6 months

 

[NagemTX]

Sick chicks definitely aren’t fun they’re all labeled correctly here but we still get sick chicks. I wonder if that’s just a mass hatchery thing that happens, I believe here it has something to do with them being HEAVILY inbred

I think it's more to do with no bio security at a TSC. All those people coming and going and you don't know what they have in their flocks.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

If I'm near a Rural King or Tractor Supply I'll go in just to see their chicks lol

Same. Last year I was looking for excuses to stop by Tractor Supply.

“Oh I’m out of cat food? I could get that at the grocery store…or I could check out Tractor Supply’s prices and then look at baby chicks.”
“I should get bird food…and Tractor Supply stocks it right next to the chick bins.”
“They didn’t have the right kind of bird food…guess I’ll have to stop by again next week to see the baby chicks again if they’ve restocked…”

If I were allowed to have them there was at one point a bin of fluffy Australorp pullets that would have had my name all over them.

 

[McChooky]

I think it's more to do with no bio security at a TSC. All those people coming and going and you don't know what they have in their flocks.

The tinniest chicks are the most vulnerable .Its a good idea to pass on smaller ones and give them time to get settled before buying them.I prefer to buy the bigger chicks that have been there a while.They aren't as jittery and are usually robust

 

[NagemTX]

The tinniest chicks are the most vulnerable .Its a good idea to pass on smaller ones and give them time to get settled before buying them.I prefer to buy the bigger chicks that have been there a while.They aren't as jittery and are usually robust

I've only bought bantams there and have not lost chicks due to illnesses. Just to issues with a brooder not designed well. They got out through a freeder and fell a ways off a table it was set up on.

I now have a brooder I made and problem is solved.

 

[Antiocheggers]

Yeah, makes me very nervous buying from a place like that. I've never bought from TSC for that reason, but it may be the only, or at least easiest, option I have to get certain breeds in low quantities.

I never bought from TSC. I buy all of my from Raul King. Haven't had any problems that I know of.

 

[The Welch Chickens]

Could you share pics of them? They sound wonderful

Of course!
Here is Storm (the gray) and Pebbles (black)

Storm trying to jump on my head!

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

I won the caption contest!!!
(A Tractor Supply gift card would have been better!) But I over the top happy!