I ordered from Welp early this year over the phone. They never sent an email confirmation (they did have my email address), but I did get an invoice in the mail shortly after ordering. Basically, no news was good news as the delivery date approached. My first order shipped on a Wed. and arrived on a Sat. There were about 15 DOAs in the group of 50+ pullets due to the length in transit, but there were about 7 extra chicks.
They reshipped the next week the 15, and did not subtract for the extra chicks. I was pleasantly surprised. Again, there was no confirmation email for the reshipment, but there was an invoice in the mail within 2 days. Every chick arrived alive and healthy. They shipped on a Monday and they arrived on a Wed. that time. Both times they shipped out of the same NM zip as Privett.
All the chickens, after corresponding with the other folks that went in on the order with me, have been healthy. One person got a male black australorp that was supposed to be a pullet in the first group which is about 16 weeks old now. There is one Buff Orp and a speckled sussex that the verdict is still out on from the second group, but so far they look a bit more like pullets than cockerels at 15 weeks, and they live across the street. Statistically, Welp did better than 90% on the sexing of our chicks. We were expecting 5-7 cockerels. There were no cross beaks or other deformities in either shipment.
A friend and I purchased 6 more Easter Eggers from a local feed store. They said they were pullets. So far we have one cockerel, and 3 other maybes in the 6. In the future, instead, I will always go straight to the hatchery to order and I will use Welp.
