The first five look good. It's hard to tell by photos. See how light the air sacs are showing up on those first 5? You can go by that pretty much on the others, having said that, by day 7 I can pretty much tell if they aren't good, but sometimes, if it's questionable I wait the suggested day 10 to toss. You will know for sure by then.
The one air sac that you are worried about, I've had worse looking ones..up higher, and hatch.
My local IFA gets them from McMurray Hatchery. I should say they get some from there. I was getting my chicks from the riverton PO when an IFA employee was getting a few peeping boxes from McMurray.
I see this all the time at Cal ranch. At one IFA they wouldn't even guess what was what. At least they were honest.Went into Cal Ranch today..of course had to look at chicks. Last day for chicks they say. Had the wrong breed names on some. A lady packed up a SLW. When I asked what she got and that was included, I asked, oh, where are those, I didn't see them. Went to look, they were meat birds! I told them, that that one will be ready to eat in a few weeks. They got the gal that helped them. She say, oh, I wondered why they looked so much bigger than their age.
The funny thing is, they get their grain from Idaho near you! I need to get a new pic of that Marans roo. he's growing up nicely and is my daughters favorite. My kids have name him Capt K'nuckles.
