Click on the “Order Form”, below, for available breeds and varieties.

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Order Form for Day-Old Chicks

Customer Comments

• Order early for a limited number of hatches each year.  Chicks are hatched and shipped in March, April & May.  Many customers place their orders several months in advance to avoid disappointment. 
• There is no catalog, just this website.  To place an order print the Order Form and fill-in the information requested.  Send the Order Form, with your payment to the address printed near the bottom of it.  The “Price” per chick is listed on the Order Form and shipping is included.  Money Orders and personal checks are accepted – no PayPal or credit/debit cards. 
• Chicks are sold as Straight Run (not sexed) only.  The quantity should add up to either 25 or 50 chicks on the Order Form.  A minimum of 25 chicks per box is required to have enough chicks together to provide the warmth needed to keep them safe in the mail.  The single compartment (25 count) shipping boxes are designed for 25 large fowl chicks.  If you order 50 chicks a 50 count box with two compartments will be used.
• All chicks will receive Marek’s vaccine, unless you note on the order form that you don’t want it.  
• The total number of chicks per order may be a combination of any of the breeds/varieties offered.  There are only limits on the maximum number of chicks of a variety available per order, so if the limit is 10 of a variety you may order any number of them between 1 and 10.
• No refunds will be made on cancelled orders, so please don’t place an order for chicks unless you are sure you want them. 
• Once your order is received an email will be sent to acknowledge receipt, so please include your email address on the Order Form.  All orders will be placed on a waiting list. Incubation is not an exact science and customers should be ready to receive their chicks when enough hatch to fill their order, so please have your brooder ready to plug in.  An email will be sent letting you know your chicks are in the mail once they are on the way. 
• Orders are filled on a first come basis…but seldom are two orders identical, so some are filled before others depending on what breeds/varieties are ordered, the region in the country they are being shipped to and other factors.
• If your order can’t be filled by the end of our hatching season you will be placed on the next year’s list or given a refund, if requested.   
• Your chicks will be shipped to the post office you want to pick them up at – not your home.  This does not have to be your local post office and driving a little further, to a larger post office, may get your chicks home sooner.  Chicks are usually shipped on Tuesday afternoons and the post office will call you to pick up your chicks as soon as they arrive.  If possible please provide two phone numbers on the Order Form, so the post office will have a backup number to contact you.
• Most chicks arrive in good condition, but early chick mortality is always a possibility.  Please take a camera with you when you go to pickup your chicks.  Open the box of chicks at the post office to inspect them with the postal clerk.  If any are dead on arrival (DOA), above the number ordered, notify me within 24 hours and include a photo of all the birds in the box.  Either replacements will be sent or you’ll receive a refund for any DOA, above the number ordered.
• By law chicks can be sent to most Zip code locations in the US only.  Canadian customers may have them sent to a US post office near the border and drive over to pick them up there.  Extra costs for required import papers and other related fees are listed on the order form. 
• If enough chicks don’t hatch of a breed and variety that you order, chicks of other varieties of equal or greater value will be substituted (up to 20%) to fill your order.  Please feel free to indicate some of your other choices under the “Comments” section of the Order Form.  Refunds will be made for any chicks substituted (over 20%) at the price per chick.
• “Hatchery Choice” means you choose the breed, but I choose the variety.  This is not necessarily an assortment.  One or more varieties may be included of the varieties I breed whether they are listed on the Order Form or not.
• “Surplus” chicks could be any chicks that I hatch.  They may be all bantams, all the same variety, a few of everything, etc.
• Don’t count your chicks before they hatch literally means guarantees cannot be made.  Decades of selective breeding are behind most of the breeds and varieties offered, but unwanted characteristics may show up.
• Chick Hatchery reserves the discretionary right to refuse any order.
• Shipment is based on the ability and willingness of the US post office to accept day-old chicks.
• Prices, conditions & varieties offered are subject to change without notice. 
• Please read the FAQ page for more information, before placing an order.
• Please post your general questions about poultry on one of the many poultry forums.  Some are listed on the Links page.