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Category: Farm Doings | Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 7:27 pm

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I called our poultry supplier and found that no chicks would be available until June! Bad news! It seems that everone and his cousin wants backyard chickens and the supplier is swamped with orders. I'm so tired of being on the "cutting edge" of fads! So, all y'all that ordered your fancy chicks, your bantams, and your strange breeds, back off! I need eight Black Australorps and I don't want to wait for them.
Good news is that Niaomi (we are on first-name basis with chicken suppliers) called and they have my chicks reserved, and I can pick them up on June 1st! Picture two 60-ish people, driving 27 miles in a pick-up truck to get a small cardboard box of chicks. Picture 60-ish lady sitting in passenger seat, clutching cardboard box that peeps, and occasionally opening it to coo at the little yellow fluffballs in the box.
Then when we get home they go to their incubation box (small shallow waterer, special starter feed, shredded paper on the bottom that gets changed daily) in the guest bedroom. Two weeks later they move to the inside coop in the barn with a temporary barrier to contain them in a smaller area. Sixty-ish lady spending most of the day hovering over the coop, protectively!
Pictures of new arrivals will be posted later.


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eileen wrote on Sat Apr 09, 2011 7:31 pm:

The first of June is my eldest lads birthday - an ideal time to get your new 'babies' in my opinion. Once you post your photographs I think there'll be quite a few 60ish and many more helping you to coo over them - me for one!!

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dooley wrote on Sat Apr 09, 2011 8:53 pm:

We went to a yard sale today and there was a sign out that said, "baby chicks." We asked and the lady said, "Go to the back doo. I'll tell my husband to let you see them." They were 10 days old and had their first "real" feathers. But, the smell was so bad and that room was so dirty that we said we had to think about it and left. He said they would have 50 more about Easter. He had an incubator on the kitchen table and these 10 day old chicks in a pen in the middle of the kitchen floor.
He didn't know what kind they were and he didn't know how to tell if they were hens or roosters. We thought about it and decided to save our money.
dooley

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Netty wrote on Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:46 pm:

Waiting patiently for photo's of your new little yellow fluffballs :)

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carolyn keiper wrote on Fri Apr 29, 2011 2:39 pm:

Good choice, Dooley. My success rate has been 50% hens. Thats a lot of feed to buy until you can tell what you have. Too bad you aren't closer, I would pick some up for you and drop them off. Who can afford the shipping for chicks or pullets?

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