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I worked at a boarding barn years ago that had a bunch of chickens. Plus, the neighbor chickens would come over, too. I hated every last one of them... except one.

I liked the little Silky rooster. He was the most pathetic rooster ever, but he thought he was hot spit. Not mean, though. He was just social enough to kind of hang out with me but just wild enough to stay out of the way. He was perfect.

Another neighbor let their dog run loose and the mongrel killed my chicken. :(

I wrote heaps and tried post it and all it posted of it was I'm a crazy chicken lady

A fox got into my chicken yard last week and killed 3 of my hens, 2 of which were my favorites.
15 chickens came with the house we bought last spring; I have 8 left. I'll likely pick up more chicks this fall when one of my Buff Orpingtons goes broody.

@White Valley, I believe that the chicks are in a box with holes in it so that they can breathe, and the delivery person does bring it up to the door.

USPS has been shipping live animals for ages They know how to handle it. Chicks are shipped overnight always and incidents are incredibly rare.

I seem to remember my dad going to town to pick them up from the post office at the crack of dawn. They're shipped pretty much immediately after hatching when they've yet to start eating or drinking, so as soon as you get them you teach them how to drink water. And then you do chores and get ready for school :))
Herps (snakes, lizards, frogs) are also frequently mailed. And invertebrates! I got my compost worms in the mail. Some of those it's... better, lol, to do in summer. At least here in Minnesota...

Theyr'e shipped within hours of hatching, overnight, and normally waiting in the post office the next morning. A chick has enough leftover yolk to survive three days, but it doesn't normally take anywhere close to that to receive them. The worst thing that normally happens is they'll be slightly stressed from the temperature fluctuations during shipping.

I received my Betta fish in the mail. He came via priority mail and took 3 days. He has a warming pack (it was March) and he was fine and acclimated to his new tank wonderfully.

am interested also ; I lost my last Betta male in march and don't like buying them from Petco -.-

@bambi207 How has your experience been with the whole transhipper process? I've been wanting to order one from this guy who breeds wild types and wild hybrids, but the whole process makes me a bit nervous.

@bambi207 Good to know. The only one I ever ordered I got from Florida, and apparently I didn't see he was doing buy one get one free, so I had a surprise extra betta when I got them. Luckily the tank I had planned was big enough to divide at the last minute, lol. I'm looking at Frank's Bettas overseas when he gets more stock on sale, or there's a guy out of Houston I'm looking at too since that's only a few hours away.

omg ; can you let the shippers know ?

ew just ew ; a box full of dead chicks has to be one of the worst things to open ><<br />

Coastgemusa.com is where I did get my betta. He is thriving as my office companion! My apologies for not seeing this thread again.

OH WOW - I never saw them on FB, just found them through a google search. I guess I am very lucky then.

They are adorable!!

Got my guineas, too!

https://i.imgur.com/LQUBaEt.jpg