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OK thank you so much! It looks so different from the other ones. They all look like this:

Hi, first time chicken owner here. I got 9 chicks from McMurray Hatchery on April 13, all died from the lengthy transit horror show but one. I added 6 more Buffs from Agway the following week. The Agway chicks all look very much the same, but the McMurray chick looks super different. What kind...

First time chicken owner here. As I posted a couple of weeks ago, I got a bunch of dead Buff Orpington chicks in the mail from McMurray Hatchery, and managed to save just one. I added 6 more buffs from the Agway that were a week younger. Even so, they were the same size as Admiral Byrd, the...

After this experience I totally agree with you. Maybe shipping a bunch together (25+) would be OK, but for a small number it seems like animal abuse. The box they arrived in was beat to hell, I don't even want to think about what this was like for them. I have one lone survivor from the shipment...

I have a 2-week-old chick that is the lone survivor of a mass death event from being in transit for too long. Now it's with a 6 chick flock of 1-week-old chicks from Agway. All are buff orps. 2 week survivor chick is the same size as week old chicks (I attribute this to its spending a week just...

I set up a second brooder and moved some chicks so I could limit the number of chicks with her and lessen the stress. She's still hanging in there, improving I think. She's gotten better enough that she's now in the larger brooder with everyone for the day today. She goes back to her old brooder...

OK, will do. Thank you for this info!

Just to add to the knowledge base on this thread for people looking for answers like I was. I got chicks through the mail from a hatchery and they were too long in transit and all died but one. Someone suggested putting electrolytes, tiny bit of molasses and tiny bit of plain yogurt in her water...

Hello! So I posted here last week about 8 of 9 dead chicks from McMurray Hatchery, I've managed to save the last chick and she is now 1 week and 1 day old. She is thriving and very much a pet now, as I have spent a huge amount of time with her and she likes to sleep on my shoulder in my hair and...

I just received 1 dead/8 dying chicks from McMurray Hatchery. Took them 69 hours in transit. They sat in MN for a whole day, and NJ for a whole day. McMurray doesn't use USPS priority express, my local post office guy was very shocked by that. I would have paid for the fastest shipping available...

Thank you and very nice to meet you!

Hi, I'm Molly, totally new to chicken husbandry. Here's my tldr; intro to this forum: I have some acreage in New York and am making a closed loop growing system on my land. Chickens seem like the best way to get hot compostable manure on site, so I ordered 8 buff orps from McMurray back in Nov...