WHERE do people find chicks for Easter? Besides TSC & FEED STORES?

[MareeZoCool]

I have not seen chicks up for sale in any stores besides my feed store, and TSC. I live out in a rural area. Not many stores here sell chicks for filling Easter baskets. Chicks are considered as livestock basically, not fun toys.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Selling one or two chicks is highly discouraged around Easter. Too many wind up in a kid's Easter basket and the chick is mistreated and tortured until it dies. That's why there is often a 6 chick minimum at places that sell chicks. That 6 chick minimum reduces the chicks getting tortured like this.

 

[Nicole01]

I want another brahma soooo badly, but dh says no more.

I told him that would be my Easter gift. They had a shipment came in two days ago.

Honestly, I do think there are some responsible people out there. We told the kids last year that our chicks would be Easter presents. However, we got the chick bug and got them early. We were only going to have 2, but now have 5. I want one more, but dh says 5 is enough. I absolutely love brahmas and their feathered feet.

We have been researching chicks and how to care for them for a year before buying.

I got my girls at a local farm store, no minimum purchase. I ended up buying 3 by themselves adding to our flock. I was looking for certain breeds. Oh, have I mentioned that I live brahmas?lol

 

[ParadiseChickens]

My local feed store gave me the name of a local woman that sold chicks. I dont think she breeds/hatches them, I think she is a broker. Anyway, she had lots of chicks and we have had them about 5 weeks now and they are healthy. You might ask at the different feed stores in your area for a "chicken broker".

 

[Mommysongbird]

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I was wondering why stores had that limit. I have never heard of chicks being in an Easter basket for a child, only bunnies.

 

[MareeZoCool]

Thanks. I don't want 6 chicks. Just adding one to my flock whenever I can find one.

 

[Chihuahuamom444]

Im glad they won't sell them or Shouldn't.....chicks are pets and not an Easter basket toy that ohhhh great fun maul the chick easter morn and next week the thrill is gone and there they are, they were used as an easter surprise and now its old.....if I sold chicks I wouldn't for a good week before Easter.......they are NOT just for Easter !

 

[sheila3935]

We have a 10 chick minimum to discourage Easter chicks and we quit selling bunnies a week ago but will start up again after Easter. I had a young man (in physically age only) he was probably 18 or so, came in yesterday picked up one chick out of the bin which clearly says do not handle the chicks, and started to walk away. I stopped him told him there is a 10 chick minimum and took the chick away. A few minutes later he came back and asked me how much they were a piece. I told him. Then I said do you have a heat lamp? A place to put them? feeders,waterers chick feed? He anawered no to all. Then I said when they grow up do you or can you build a coop? After that he asked how much for all of that. I said well just to start I'd say about 60 dollars then the cost of a coop which could run into the hundreds and the cost for food all the time. He said never mind. I started working at our feed store a couple of weeks ago, but at my last job one of my bosses asked me if I would sell him 2 chicks for Easter. I said NO. He told me Oh well I'll go to Rural King. I said no you wont they have a 10 chick minimum and what are you going to do with them after Easter if they survive that long. He said give them to you. Really? NO. Most people that buy chicks for Easter either end up killing them dumping them or give them to the local zoo for food. IMO if you get an animal it is your responsibility to take the best care of that animal that is possible til the animal crosses the rainbow bridge. Sorry so long. This is a touchy subject with me. By the way have a blessed Easter.

 

[Judy]

Evidently the past plight of so many Easter chicks (and baby ducks) has become common enough knowledge now that it is getting very hard to buy one or a few for Easter. Even my old fashioned feed store, which is also a hardware store, has no chicks right now but will be getting some in a few weeks. In very recent years they sold colored chicks just before Easter. Makes it temporarily inconvenient for a legitimate chicken keeper who just wants to add a couple to his flock -- or for someone who wants chicks or bunnies for Easter who will actually take care of them. There are still way too many people around like the one described in Sheila's post, I'm afraid.

 

[N&MSchroeder]

This make sense. I have been stopping in at my local feed store for the past few weeks to check out their weekly shipment of chicks. They didn't get new chicks this week, I guess in order to discourage the Easter purchases.