Since yall are in Georgia, and I am a newbie, I wonder if you could answer a question for me! We have spring break the first full week of April, so I am trying to gauge the best time to get our day-old chicks. I could wait and hopefully get the exact combination of breeds that I want (we only have have room for 4 hens - converting the dog house in the avatar to a coop!) if I order from Meyer in April, or I can get them from my feed store in mid- March and hope for the breeds I want but then have to get someone I trust to come check on my babies while we're gone for 4 days or so for spring break. So here is the question:
Is mid to late April too late to get started with day-old chicks???? Or is it better to go ahead and get them and hope that they'll be ok while we're gone at 3 weeks of age with someone stopping by once a day to check on them in their brooder (ours will be a large rubbermaid tub!)?
