Waiting...waiting. Meyer Hatchery and USPS

[ThreePumpkins]

After months and months of waiting and based on my past experience with Meyer Hatchery, today should be the day that post office calls to tell me my babies are in! Only...the phone has remained utterly silent this morning: nothing, nada. I check tracking again and again...and finally got an update that they left Cleveland at 9 this morning. I was hoping to have them safely in my brooder by then! Oh the waiting!!
Tracking says delivery on Thursday...Ugh, I should have picked them up yesterday. I love Meyer Hatchery. I just hope all my babies make it here safely.
To make matters worse, my hubby's schedule got switched this week and now I won't have a vehicle to pick my chicks up the rest of the week. Why USPS, why?!? My mail lady is going to have to deliver them....more waiting.She is not gonna like that.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

They made it!

Eating up a storm

Gary

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

I am in the same boat, waiting.... Last year mine shipped on Monday and I had them in the brooder (in southern Ca) on Tuesday. The USPS is terrible about scanning stuff in and out, it shows mine are still in cleveland since yesterday afternoon but I am hoping they are further along than that!

I am holding out hope that they will get here today and be under my broody mama tonight

Good luck

Gary

 

[junkman56]

mine are going to ship on the 9th from my pet chicken

 

[ThreePumpkins]

I will be keeping my phone close just in case! Hope your little ones make a quick and safe journey!

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

Is your brooder all warmed up and the broody still sitting?

Yes and yes, plan is into the temporary brooder , introduce to food and water get some nutri drench in them and when it gets dark pop them under Fluffy who is sitting on the wooden eggs warming them as we speak

Gary

 

[ThreePumpkins]

I got the call! Chicks are at the post office!
I will be staring out the window for the next 2 hours waiting for them to arrive here.

 

[ThreePumpkins]

All 20 chicks made it safely. I have been trying to id everyone...I have 6 rare breed assortments that I have been trying to figure out. I end up with 2 Egyptian Fayoumis chicks in the mix...one of the few breeds I was hoping not to get. (I have a pet flock of docile breeds on restricted free range...not the best fit for the EF chicks.) I am thinking I also got 1 cuckoo marans, 1 black sumatra and 2 easter eggs. Time will tell. Very happy with Meyer's chicks.

 

[Rogue Chickens]

My girls arrived today also! 7 of the 8 made the trip. One of my polish bantams didn't make it. The rest seem good.. a few are pretty lethargic, but overall better since they have started to settle in.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

Mine are at the regional USPS hub an hour away from here. I expect to have them about 2:00 when the next truck arrives at the post office.


Gary