Help!

[chicks are life]

I ordered 4 all survived except one

 

[chicks are life]

But it could have been I don't know really I just perfer sugar and pedialite plus its probuly lying around.

 

[Cindy in PA]

Don't give up on hatchery shipping. I have ordered about 8 times in the last 24 years & only once lost 2 the day after I got them. This year for the first time I had 2 dead in the box when I picked it up (shipped Monday, picked up Weds. a.m.) and the other 13 have been great. They are 10 weeks today. Some chicks are fragile & it's probably just not apparent when they are stuck in the box. Good luck!

 

[NancyNurseCxMama]

The place where I got my seven chicks orders from Cackle Hatchery so yes, they are hatchery chicks but I pick them up from the feed/pet store (real country place, not a strip mall pet store type shop) after they are delivered. The chicks are checked over by the owner of the store (family business) when they arrive and only the healthy ones get sold. A great benefit, I think---I would rather avoid dealing with dead and dying chicks as much as possible.
She lets you order any amount and any breed that Cackle Hatchery sells. I ordered two Buff Orpingtons, two Golden Laced Wyandottes, two Silver Laced Wyandottes, and one Barred Rock.
She also has chicks available for sale at the store in a large clean pen and they always look active and healthy. No doubt any others are removed, of course. All female, so the sign says.
My chicks are just about two weeks old now (although I suspect the Buff Orpingtons are a bit older---bigger, more mature looking from the beginning) and I have had no problems whatsoever. Very active, eating, flapping, peeping and, of course, pooping. The runt of the bunch, the Barred Rock, is now Miss Bossy Pants and OWNS the little perching dowel in the brooder.
Checking for pasty butt regularly, using ACV in their water, probiotics and occasional electrolytes in water in separate bowl. Medicated Blue Seal chick feed (recommended by the seller) as they are unvaccinated. I sprinkle grit in their brooder once in a while and they go nuts for it---I put a small dish in there and they were eating so much of it I had to take it away. I imagined crops full of gravel.
I put a nipple waterer in there yesterday and they are all using it. I left the regular chick waterer in there for now because I am not sure if they are getting enough from the nipple---they go back and forth between the two.
Keeping my fingers crossed that all will continue to go well but I know how quickly chicks can go bad. Doing the best I can as a newbie!!
Question: is it too early, at two weeks, to start introducing some greens? I have organic oregano, thyme, and rosemary growing. Also lavender in my garden. If I do, should I chop them up?
Sorry, I am really so dumb here!

 

[RoosterCogburn7]

Sometimes when chicks are shipped in too small boxes they can injure each other. Also, if they were shipped over 48 hours old mortality rates increase.