WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? WHAT DID YOU JUST RECEIVE?

[AStitchofKate]

I Just finished my brooder. I ended up getting a shipping crate from hubby's work. Hubby built the lid out of mesh .... good thing cuz I can't work with that stuff.

So the big day is this Tuesday!! Woot Woot!!!


Can't wait, but I'm also terrified ...

Tuesday! Not that farrrr!! You all will do FINE! No need to stress about it !!! Can't wait to see your flock!

 

[Quack House]

Tuesday! Not that farrrr!! You all will do FINE! No need to stress about it !!! Can't wait to see your flock!

Thanks for the vote of confidence!

(bites nails ...)

 

[AStitchofKate]

Thanks for the vote of confidence!

(bites nails ...)

Hahaha! Absolutely!!! I will admit the first two days I felt slightly out numbered. Now 4/5 days in I feel a lot more confident and our routine is set and we are all happy and healthy! lol

 

[rockmissjess]

so I finally can tell whos the barred rock and whos the black australorp... lol my favorite two are both of them lol.. i love the barred rock a lil more.. she always hops right in my hand and lays down the moment i stick my hand in there.. if she isnt present when i put my hand in the black australorp climbs onboard... i think im gonna name the barred rock Charlotte... and the black australorp gypsy

 

[losttexan]

After dealing with the mass stupidity of Tractor Supply and the local feed stores, I decided to pony up and place an order with McMurray:
2 blue andalusians
2 americana (EE) males
2 black australorps
1 black minorcas
1 buttercup
2 black cochins
3 cuckoo marans
2 columbian wyandottes

They are also sending a surprise exotic chick (which will probably be a male red sex link, but oh well).

Shipping April 14th. Now comes the hard part. . . .

 

[rockmissjess]

After dealing with the mass stupidity of Tractor Supply and the local feed stores, I decided to pony up and place an order with McMurray:
2 blue andalusians
2 americana (EE) males
2 black australorps
1 black minorcas
1 buttercup
2 black cochins
3 cuckoo marans
2 columbian wyandottes

They are also sending a surprise exotic chick (which will probably be a male red sex link, but oh well).

Shipping April 14th. Now comes the hard part. . . .

Yeah i know what you mean about tractor supply.. lol i asked to look at the silver laced wyandotte straight runs up close to see if i could sex them and they told me no.. i was like why?! so we left the store and looked up a lady on craigslist and got 3 pullets from her instead and she just gota huge shipment in from a hatchery so they were already vaccinated.. (i had already just got my shipment from chickensforbackyards.com) the people at tractor supply dont know anything about the chicks they are selling.. seriously.. they have no clue.

 

[losttexan]

Of course, were I a thinking TS employee (a rare breed indeed), I might be able to conclude that someone educated enough to attempt to sex day-old chicks is probably educated enough to conduct good bio-security measures and not infect their chicks.

With the amount of dead, and about to be dead chicks I see in those tubs, I can't imagine it's a huge concern, anyway.

 

[rockmissjess]

Of course, were I a thinking TS employee (a rare breed indeed), I might be able to conclude that someone educated enough to attempt to sex day-old chicks is probably educated enough to conduct good bio-security measures and not infect their chicks.

With the amount of dead, and about to be dead chicks I see in those tubs, I can't imagine it's a huge concern, anyway.

Right?! the lady was extremely rude to me.. so i just left.. i was pretty angry too with how rude she was... but its whatever.. im not willing to buy straight run chicks.. without looking at them upclose..they couldnt even point me in the right direction for brooder thermometers when i went there.. they kept trying to show me anal horse thermometers! i was like really?!

 

[HappyHazel]

I am getting 1 Australorp, 1 Barred Rock, 1 Barnevelder, 1 Easter Egger, and 1 Welsummer.
I am getting them from My Pet Chicken.
They are hatching on June 23 and will come within that week. (Still a while away, but I am so excited!)
This is my second round of chicks.

 

[LerkerNoMore]

I ordered 5 buff orpington day old chicks from efowl.com and are being shipped April 14th. My first chicks ever whohooo