Sarah:
Get the zip code of the person interested and go to your postmaster and see if you can ever ship live birds to that zip code. If not, find out the nearest zip code you can ship from and determine what the gas/time cost will be. UPS will not take live birds.
The shipping cost will be in the $35-$55 range and you will have to ship priority mail. (make sure to put tomatos in the box for the birds to eat along the way)
You (or the buyer may drop ship or ship to you a shipping box) need to use an approved shipping box like found at the following website,
www.hm-e.net. You can buy shipping boxes one at a time or in larger amounts.
I will share that due to airline schedules, shipping live birds in some parts of the country is almost impossible. Central Missouri is one of those areas. I have to dtrive 90 miles one way to the nearest post office that can take adult birds or day-old chicks on a regular basis. My local post office (all between me and the St. Louis airport and 90 miles to the west - I have to get to a post office that ships out of Kansas City) is totally hit and miss and they do not know the schedule in advance. I have to call every morning to check when I am wanting to ship an adult bird. Day-old is impossible since by regulation the chicks have to be less than 24 hours old and one cannot hit a target hatch date unless you have the target to start with. Oddly enough, I can receive shipped birds from anywhere - it doesn\'t make a lick of sense to me and the post office cannot explain it.
Michael