Why Do People Buy Live Chicks From Breeders and Farm Stores‭?

[blackandtan]

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that illusive spelling badge may not be in your future

nor for you my friend!

 

[Kiki]

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nor for you my friend!

 

[blackandtan]

Have a link to that law?

I wouldn’t know how to attach a link if you gave me glue and Velcro lol...you can find it in the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, this covers most critters, also Migratory Bird Regulations, you can also delve deeply into the Canadian Wildlife Service website to check out all kinds of laws and regs, its a lot to look through but worth it

 

[1cock2hens]

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nor for you my friend!

another weisenheimer huh? because that's what we need

 

[blackandtan]

@blackandtan he is in spain and the rules/laws are not going to be identical

Yeah...Catalan..didn’t notice that at first

 

[blackandtan]

another weisenheimer huh? because that's what we need

What is a weisenheimer?

Also can someone start a thread to explain acronyms?

 

[1cock2hens]

weisenheimer - a person who behaves in an irritatingly smug or arrogant fashion, typically by making clever remarks and displaying their knowledge.

google acronyms you need help with.. while you are at it look up the difference in illusive and elusive. you were not correct in trying to correct my spelling/grammar..

 

[Molpet]

What is a weisenheimer?

Also can someone start a thread to explain acronyms?

There's several threads on the byc acronyms

 

[Kiki]

There's several threads on the byc acronyms

I think there is an article too.
I think.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I buy chicks because hatching is a mess. I am not very good at hatching eggs in an incubator and hatching shipped eggs is extra hard mode. I've had some decent hatches from my own eggs... But shipped eggs I'm usually lucky to get 40% of the eggs to hatch. This is especially true because the number of people who package their eggs badly is staggering. I've had eggs show up individually wrapped in bubble wrap, but then rolling around loose in a bubble wrap bag before. It's not a pleasant experience for three weeks of tending and stress.

Which means that if I only hatched I would be limited to local breeders/varieties only for hatching without a nightmare. Which means I'd have about 10 varieties to pick from... BBS ameraucanas, black and copper marans, olive eggers, lavendar orpingtons, ISA browns, silkies, and occasionally some black australorps, white leghorns, black stars or barred rocks. Very rarely something else pops up but that's rarely.

So I prefer to just get chicks. And since chicks need to be in a brooder anyhow, it's easy to keep them quarantined very nicely, at least 125' away from my adult flock, frequently even in the house in the basement. By the time they're ready to go out (2 months or so), quarantine time is WELL over and I've taken the time to introduce them to the local bacteria by putting spits of dirt into their brooder.

For some people it just makes sense to buy chicks.