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jerryse:
I would like to try shipping day old chicks and hope to get some tips from some members with experience.I have contacted the state ag. dept. & they are sending form 9-3 that needs to go whith them.I already have npip & will be taking a class 3/31/10 to be a blood tester.I have mostly bantams so any tips for shipping?  Jerry Segler

John:
First check the postal regs for:

--- Quote ---9.3.2 Day-Old Poultry
--- End quote ---
http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm300/601.htm#wp1064884
Even though they may be sent Priority Mail I use Express Mail.
Boxes and pads are available thru Cutler\'s Supply:
 http://www.cutlersupply.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_101&products_id=661&zenid=m7bljgupk0j1csgtvm832nsjg1
I set eggs on Sunday evenings around 6pm, so I use the Sunday date 21 days later and 6pm as the time and date of hatch to write on the box top.  
I don\'t open the hatchers until Monday afternoons and take the chicks to the post office around 4pm to ship.  They leave on a truck around 5:30 and head to the Detroit airport.  

John:
This is an old topic, but my post seem to fit the title...
I sent a box of 26 chicks to FL and there were only 17 in the box when the customer picked it up at the post office.  :(  This is a first for me.  For years I taped the tops on the boxes in both directions, but lately I\'ve only taped in one direction.  I did notice a couple weeks ago a postal clerk lifting the top a bit on one side to get a better look at the chicks.  I wasn\'t happy about it and hoped it wasn\'t a common practice.
I\'ll probably never know if someone bent the top open and somehow 9 chicks were displaced along the way or if they were removed by someone that wanted them very badly.  Either way I\'ll go back to taping or banding the box tops on in both directions to hopefully avoid this problem in the future.

Mike Gilbert:
Is it just me, or has this country really gone to the dogs?
Just recently in the news we had an I.C.E. supervisor, a government bureaucrat, helping to embezzle over a half million $ in unsubstantiated travel expenses.  Then there was the GSA spending $800,000 of taxpayer money on a lavish Las Vegas bash and bragging about it.  Every time you turn around there is another murder/suicide, another child missing, another young woman raped and murdered, another body found buried in someone\'s back yard.  A month ago an innocent young woman was shot to death by two young men with criminal records just 20 miles from here in an attempted robbery.  A month or so before that another young woman was strangled over a drug debt in the same town.   Has anyone been following the J. Edwards trial? This is our brave, new, secular world folks.  Open your eyes to what is happening in this country.    It\'s what happens when honesty, respect for life, and the accountability that comes with belief in a Higher Being and an afterlife are thrown out of our public institutions.  We can thank the liberal atheists and agnostics that dominate our higher public education and our legal system for this.   The end can\'t come too soon to suit me.

OldChurchEggery:
John, do you think they may have died en route and someone at the post office removed them? I got some chicks last year through the mail that were sent priority rather than express, and by the time they got to my post office, many of them had died in transit. It was hot and our mail lady called to tell me there were some smelly, dead chicks in a box waiting for me. I know I would have rather the post office open a stinky, suspect package than let it sit around in the heat of day and get worse. Obviously I don\'t know the particulars about the shipment, but I hold out hope for humanity enough to err on the side of optimism. The chicks I got from you last year were bound up as tight as Fort Knox and it would have been tough to get into them without a box cutter. I hope returning to your old packaging method prevents this in the future.

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