Chicken Stimulus Package: What to Do After Receiving Chicks by Mail

Reader Contribution by Pat Foreman
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Murray McMurray Hatchery emailed saying the chicks shipped on Saturday — six days before the Home and Garden Show. They could arrive Monday, but more likely Tuesday, and even possibly Wednesday. If they arrived Wednesday, they would be ultra-stressed and some would probably be dead on arrival. Just-hatched chicks can be shipped in the mail because they have a three-day window before they must have food and water or become too weak to eat or drink.

Avoiding Chick ‘Starve Out’

This stressful situation is called “starve out”: when a chick becomes too weak to search for food and dies of hunger and dehydration.

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