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SharkE
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Re: Just When You Think You've Seen Everything

‎11-19-2018 09:42 PM

legal?  bet that was expensive

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AuntG
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Re: Just When You Think You've Seen Everything

‎11-19-2018 09:47 PM

Mail order chicks were common when I was young.

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kitcat51
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Re: Just When You Think You've Seen Everything

‎11-19-2018 10:01 PM

Yes, it's legal & the PO has rules you must follow. There is a rescue farm in a near by town & they had several fancy young roosters & chickens shipped overnight that were going to be destroyed. My neighbor had bees shipped for the hives he built too. I don't think its cruel at all as long as they are securely boxed & handled with care.

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Sooner
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Re: Just When You Think You've Seen Everything

‎11-19-2018 10:14 PM

People have done this since the middle of the last century as far as I know.  Chickens, bees, ducks etc.  If the losses were great they wouldn't do it.  

 

My grandma got her chicks this way and they always seemed to be fine.  

 

I know in the 70's a lot of people in town got chicks and never complained about them being in bad shape.

 

I think people who do this know what they are doing. 

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Glittergal
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Re: Just When You Think You've Seen Everything

‎11-19-2018 11:33 PM

How absolutely awful.  We have lost our humanity.

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