So you have to drop whatever you’re doing and go pick up your chicks. So you will get a call from your local post office stating that your “live shipment” is in and that you need to come pick it up IMMEDIATELY. The hatcheries do their best to alert you to when the order is shipped and approximately when it will arrive, but nothing is exact. Not to mention the issue of receiving your order. They don’t charge you for the extra males, they just throw them in the box, again, to keep the box temperature up (males’ temperatures run a tad higher and they are more expendable so are used to help keep shipping temps up.) So either way you may have to find homes for your roosters or raise them for a couple months till they become a crowing nuisance to your neighbors then stew them. If you do order from a hatchery that will sell in individual numbers (small amounts) of chicks, you are almost guaranteed an extra male or two in the box. They do this primarily to ensure a higher survival rate as when you buy in bulk they keep each other warm in the shipping box so you are less likely to lose chicks to cold and draft (which is a major killer of day old chicks).Īlso, another thing to consider is that if you are ordering just females there is a good likelihood that you will have a male or two or three in the bunch as sexing isn’t quite an exact science. There are pros and cons either way.Ī couple things to consider when ordering directly from a hatchery are that many (if not most) of them have 25 chick minimums. Or you can go to your local feed and grain store and often times they will have fluffy little chicks there in the spring.

You can do this through several hatcheries that will mail you day old chicks. I find it best to get my birds as babies as I can hand raise them and socialize them so that they are tame and manageable as adult chickens. Berikut ini karya ilmiah tentang pemeliharaan ayam :

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