How To Select Your Day Old Chicks

Typical Chicken Cage

Here are helpful tips to choose your day old chicks:

• Buy them on a poultry farm house near your place that breed broiler chicks.
• Or at the agrivet (agribusiness) shop (not in a pet shop), most of the time they sells day old chicks on a given schedule.  Better yet, ask them when they will receive their next delivery of their day old chicks. 
• Choose day old chicks that are energetic in appearance, you must pick your on choice of chicks one by one for assurance.
• Do not buy day old chicks to a place that is very far from your place since it will stressed out your chicks that sometimes lead to their death due to heat, no water and food available for them for a long trip.
• Put your day old chicks on a comfortable box for transporting, not too crowded for them.
• Make sure you have your chicken cage ready when you buy your chicks.
• Allow them several minutes rest before giving food and water.