Great Service. 105 live Chicks! Cool exotics. Texture and Flavor not to our taste. These LOVE ticks! Amazingly healthy chicks. I’m in Missouri so these were here the next bus. day. Not one of the chicks were unhealthy which is amazing in my book! Cackle was great over the phone and also had helpful advice along the way. We lost 60 of them in a hot day in July due to extreme heat and being couped up in a partially tarped chicken tractor while we were out to town for a few hours. They piled up and overheated. Lesson learned. A neighbor said a fan helps. Back to the quality of the birds. To my store bird accustomed tastes, these were different in flavor and much tougher even at 14 weeks (1.5lb dressed). I wouldn’t buy these again for meat purposes (only as pets and tick eaters). Even if they were up to our taste standards, they require more feed per pound than I’d call a good value. However, they were a ton of fun to watch grow though and beautiful birds. The surprise exotics were too cool! We had 1% of the ticks we normally have. Free range 100 of these and they’ll eat every tick in sight! Pretty amazing actually. Nothing else seemed to work.
