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

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cutipatooti said:
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.
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They ship from Missouri..
 
ozarkchicks said:
Do they? I was curious about this. I hadn't heard of this hatchery until I had already placed my order from Ideal. Too bad, I may have ordered from here if I would have known, I live in Missouri.
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bahhaha .. yeah since i ordered from them i watched the shipping like a hawk... even verified with the lady who worked there that, that was indeed where they were shipping from lol..
 
Those are some great names
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the three hens we have now are Buffy the Buff Orpington, Stretch the Black Sex Link, and Lil' Red the Cherry Egger. Our three chicks are Wilma the Salmon Favorelle, Chip the OEG Bantam, and Cuckoo the Cuckoo Maran.

They're easy to remember but once we get in our order of I believe 3 ducklings, 3 poults, and 16 chicks who knows!
 
ozarkchicks said:
Those are some great names
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the three hens we have now are Buffy the Buff Orpington, Stretch the Black Sex Link, and Lil' Red the Cherry Egger. Our three chicks are Wilma the Salmon Favorelle, Chip the OEG Bantam, and Cuckoo the Cuckoo Maran.

They're easy to remember but once we get in our order of I believe 3 ducklings, 3 poults, and 16 chicks who knows!
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*giggles* i love the name stretch.. lol
 
My flock went to school today!!! What a great day!!!



They are all so healthy and lively NO pasty bums at all. My students thought it was really odd that they were eating scrambled eggs!!!
 

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