Whatever your thoughts, you are 100% right. And to compound the stupidity, the replacement order had the same fate. I have learned a very hard lesson. My money now refunded, I will make the drive to Missouri to buy them direct at the hatchery.I can think of a better word than foolish. Poor babies.
When I lived in Iowa, I ordered birds from Hoover's any time of year with never a problem. why I thought it would be the same here, I do not know.