Cathryn, this was some years ago. My daughter (Kathryn) will soon be a senior in college and has been out of 4H for some time now. Back then, I was "just a mom" and the group leader called the shots. Each kid got a McM paper catalog to pick their birds from.
She did this for the several years my daughter was a member of her group ... maybe we were just lucky but always got healthy birds.
I was just commenting on the "customer service" part of it .... even the kids who got 6 or 8 birds did a "one of these, one of those" thing so there were hardly 2-3 matches amongst the 60 or 70 birds in the boxes received. Had to take them a bit of time to mark them that way, and it was definitely appreciated when they arrived and there were a dozen kids standing around wanting THEIR chickens to take home .......
Susan F.
Susan, A 101 member we both know had a nice poultry farm started with several breeds. They ordered from McM and got a virulent mycoplasma that cost them a pretty penny and their farm. I used to order from McM back in the middle '90's. I'd never order now because of the horror stories. It only takes one bad order to wipe out what you have.
Cackle's chicks arrived weak and killed my silkie chicks. You and I both know that 1 and 2 week old silkie chicks will mother chicks so I put cackle's chicks with mine and ended up with nothing but a few weak chicks from cackle and rudeness from the owner. Out my $$ and my chicks.
Cathryn rainbowsilkiesTM in Michigan
From: Susan F. <Susan@Foreverpugged.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Hatcheries
McMurry probably doesn't have the best quality chicks .... (then again,
what mail order hatchery does?) but I found them in the past to be very
easy to work with.
We placed an order for our 4H group, where each child picked out 1 or 2
or 4 or 6 chicks .... so *MANY* different breeds. I think we ended up
getting around 50 or 60 chicks, maybe more. When we explained this to
McMurry they happily took the time to mark each chick's head with a
colored marker (or 2 ) and put the same mark on the packing slip so that
we'd be able to tell who was who.
When you need to split the order up amongst a dozen or more children,
this was VERY helpful.
Susan F.
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