Click on the “Order Form”, below, for available breeds and varieties.

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Order Form for Day-Old Chicks

• Order early for a limited number of hatches each spring.  Some customers place their orders several months in advance to avoid disappointment. 
• There is no catalog, just this website.  To place an order print the Order Form and fill-in the information requested.  Send the Order Form, with your payment to the address printed near the bottom of it.  The “Price” per chick is listed on the Order Form.  Money Orders and personal checks are accepted – no PayPal or credit/debit cards.
• Chicks are sold as Straight Run (not sexed) only.  Although some big commercial hatcheries employ specialists that “vent sex” day-old chicks, ChickHatchery.com doesn’t have that ability.  
• The quantity should add up to either 25 or 50 chicks on the Order Form.  A minimum of 25 chicks per box is required to have enough chicks together to provide the warmth needed to keep them safe in the mail.  If you order 50 chicks two boxes of 25 each will be taped together and sent to you.  
• It is recommended that you have the chicks sent to you, rather than picking them up at ChickHatchery.com.  The chicks are taken from the hatchers just a few hours before they are sent in the mail.  If enough don’t hatch to fill a mail order it is postponed, but if you drive to pickup your order and enough don’t hatch it could be a wasted trip.  Those wishing to pick up their chicks at ChickHatchery.com may do so between 5 & 7pm on the Tuesday they are scheduled to be available. 
• The total number of chicks per order may be a combination of any of the breeds/varieties offered.  There are only limits on the maximum number of chicks of a variety available per order.
• There isn’t a “waiting list”, since orders are seldom cancelled.  If you decide you don’t want the chicks, for whatever reason, they may be donated to a youth poultry organization.  No refund will be made on cancelled orders, so please don’t place an order for chicks unless you are sure you want them. 
• Once your order is received a hatch date will be scheduled and you will be notified by email, so please include your email address on the Order Form.
• Incubation is not an exact science and even though customers are given a scheduled (anticipated) hatch date they should be ready to receive their chicks before or after that date.  I just can’t send chicks that I don’t have.  If your order can’t be filled by the end of our hatching season you will be placed on next year’s list or given a refund, if requested   
• Your chicks will be shipped to your local Post Office – not your home.  Chicks are usually shipped on Tuesday afternoons and your local Post Office should call you to pick up your chicks as soon as they arrive.  If possible please provide two phone numbers on the Order Form, so the Post Office will have a backup number to contact you.
• Please take a camera with you when you go to pickup your chicks.  Open the box of chicks at the post office to inspect them with the postal clerk.  If any are dead, above the number ordered, you must notify me within 24 hours and include a photo of the birds in the box to receive a refund for the price of each DOA.
• By law chicks can be sent to most Zip code locations in the US only.  Canadian customers may have them sent to a US post office near the border and drive over to pick them up there or Ontario residents may pickup their chicks at ChickHatchery.com in Birch Run, Michigan.  Extra costs for required import papers and other fees are listed on the order form.  Orders for Canada may be for 25, 50, 75 or 100 chicks.
• If enough chicks don’t hatch of a breed and variety that you order, chicks of other varieties of equal or greater value will be substituted (up to 30%) to fill your order.  Please feel free to indicate some of your other choices under the “Comments” section of the Order Form.  Here is the place to let me know what you really want the most. 
• “Hatchery Choice” means you choose the breed, but I choose the variety.  One or more varieties may be included of the varieties I breed, even if they are “sold-out”.
• Don’t count your chicks before they hatch literally means guarantees cannot be made.  Decades of selective breeding are behind most of the breeds and varieties offered, but unwanted characteristics may show up.
• ChickHatchery.com reserves the discretionary right to refuse any order.
• Shipment is based on the ability and willingness of the US post office to accept day-old chicks.
• Prices, conditions & varieties offered are subject to change without notice. 
• Please read the FAQ page for more information, before placing an order.
• Please post your general questions about poultry on one of the many poultry forums.  Several are listed on the Links page.