Day Old Baby Chicks, mail order... what to do when they arrive

A short video demonstrating the importance of picking up your mail order chicks as soon as possible. They do suffer stress and require immediate attention and a proper environment.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Hot Chicks
• day old chickens
• brooder
• Regarding Chickens
• Mail Order
• Hatching
• Incubation
• Brooding

[ilovelife160]

your babys r going to get spayed legs if there in newspaper

[HTCSWEOD]

@ilovelife160 Please watch the entire video before commenting... I discuss that issue. I've never had a chick with splayed legs (you say "spayed"...?) Thank you for your concern, you are correct in that they should not be reared on newspaper.

[ZenMaster1992]

What do you do with the chicks?

[HTCSWEOD]

@ZenMaster1992 I write about poultry and post information regarding their growth, development and behavior. We raise chickens free range in rural Pennsylvania and supply chicks that we breed to local backyard, 4-H and other free range flock owners...

[ANIMLLOVRZZ66]

AWESOME

[HTCSWEOD]

@ANIMLLOVRZZ66 Thanks!

[Rock1554]

Cute They are...

[HTCSWEOD]

@Lacey8246 First of all, it's very rare for them to take three days in transit, normally they ship Saturday and I pick them up Sunday (yes, our post office calls us even on Sundays).  A baby chick is self contained as just prior to hatching, it absorbs the remaining albumen (egg white) this is adequate food and water for several days. A mother hen sitting on eggs remains until all her brood hatch, this absorption of nutrients allows all chicks to stay put until all have hatched.

[Lacey8246]

How can day old baby chicks be on the road for three days???

[Uchchash]

i bought 4 baby chicks(around 2 days old i think)...2 of them died for diarrhoeah,1 of them is still hanging by a thread,but the other last one is quite well...very naughty though!