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

[cutipatooti]

oh my! their prices are OUTRAGEOUS!!! 

I agree its expensive. I hope I end up with some decent birds in the end. I had some marans and ameraucanas from cree farms. They were $20 each and a minimum of 20 chicks, but the order was split between several people. They were my best birds until the bear. I was origionally going to order from greenfire farms...super expensive....but I could get more for less here. Where do you recommend getting chicks from? In the Sst I got most of mine from a local feed store not TSC but hatchery birds non the less.

 

[cutipatooti]

They're HERE!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!! And our epic adventure getting them and the long drive home!!!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10202192150499600

Super cute! They look so big and fluffy and healthy. Congrats on your new little ones

 

[cutipatooti]

i had a great idaea and named all of mine the same thing DINNER

HaHaHa. For turkeys I heard your supposed to name them Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.

 

[rockmissjess]

I agree its expensive. I hope I end up with some decent birds in the end. I had some marans and ameraucanas from cree farms. They were $20 each and a minimum of 20 chicks, but the order was split between several people. They were my best birds until the bear. I was origionally going to order from greenfire farms...super expensive....but I could get more for less here. Where do you recommend getting chicks from? In the Sst I got most of mine from a local feed store not TSC but hatchery birds non the less.

I got mine from chickensforbackyards.com no minimum order you could buy 3 or 4 birds for the price of 1 that you just paid for..

 

[Branch Chickens]

I think there's something different about non-hatchery stock. It seems like the heritage breeding places charge exorbitant prices, but their stock is more carefully managed, and their birds are bred to potentially be show-quality and "to standard". Is that correct?

 

[ozarkchicks]

They do breed their birds so they have potential to be show quality. A lot of people like me find those prices insane because we only want our chickens for eggs or the like. I suppose if you want a show bird the hatchery typically isn't the way to go.

Prices like that still don't get you show quality everytime, however. And most hatcheries try to breed to the "standard" as well, they just aren't always as successful I suppose you could say.

 

[rockmissjess]

:/ they R chickens... any site online selling them in 20 or more Is a hatchery in my eyes... you want non hatchery birds buy from foleyswaterfowl... but you WILL pay for it... and I mean way over $20 a bird.... or buy local...

 

[cutipatooti]

I do think you have the potential to get a better quality bird from a breeder then a hatchery. I think you can still get a show bird from hatchery stock and a defective bird from a breeder. I just think its less likely. My first chicks were hatchery. I had some pasty butt but non died. I had one that grew a severe scissor beak and had to be culled. She was my favorite. I don't like hatcheties because the sex birds. They sell the females and if unsold male chicks are lucky they get gassed. I'm not saying breeders don't cull males if they have them. I also think sexing chicks is damaging and stressful on the chicks. I still think that there can be great hat heroes and bad breeders. I agree that the more breeds you breed the closer you become to a hatchery.

I am hoping to breed some of the chickens I get. I also have 2 sons in 4-h that want to try and show some chickens. Chicks are a dime a dozen in my area. everybody has them everybody sells them. If I did breed chickens I wanted to have something different so they would sell. I would not charge outrageous prices for them.

Chickens for backyards was a nice site and the prices were very good. I did not see where they ship from. I am in new York and would be concerned for the chicks if they only shipped their minimum of 3. Also its state law here that chicks should be sold in no less then groups of 6. This is done for the health and benifet of the chicks in the brooder stage. Extra chickens I have end up on the table. Id rather eat them as adults after being raised happy then buy chicken from the super market. I make no judgements on other people and what they do. If I personally don't agree with something I try my best to find a way in which I do agree.

I am excited about my chicks as is everyone else that orders or hatches out chicks. My sons and I are looking foward to our adventures is raising and possibly breeding rare breed chickens.

 

[jmayday]

Check this out gave them mealworms today Chicks eating mealworms:

 

[chickadee5002]

Picked up my babies Monday from Meyer Hatchery!

Golden Buff (5)


Barred Rock (5)


Speckled Sussex (3)


Easter Egger (5)


Olive Egger (3)


Feathered Feet on the olive egger