• Cherryville Farm Pickup: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, by arrangement for your selected hatch.
• Armstrong Partner Pickup: Generally Tuesday afternoons. We will confirm the pickup location and time with you.
• Kamloops Pickup: Available by arrangement on April 6, May 4, June 1, and June 29, 2027. Pickups will generally be Tuesday late afternoon or around dinner time. Please choose one of these hatch dates and leave a note at checkout requesting Kamloops pickup. We will confirm the location and time with you.
• Options on Kamloops Weeks: Cherryville and Armstrong pickups remain available. Canada Post shipping is also available on April 6, May 4, and June 1. June 29 is pickup-only because of the Canada Day holiday.
• Chick Sitting Fee: If chicks are held past Wednesday:
  • $5 per day for fewer than 20 chicks.
  • $10 per day for 20–100 chicks.
• Please leave a note at checkout with any special pickup needs. We will contact you to confirm arrangements.

All chick shipping is through Canada Post. Shipping is at the customer's risk, and live arrival is not guaranteed. Please read the following information before choosing shipping.

• Shipping Dates: Shipping is available on eligible Tuesday hatch dates. No shipping is available for the March 23, March 30, or June 29, 2027 hatches. These dates are pickup-only.
• Order Size: The minimum shipping order is 20 chicks. To fit our shipping boxes, please order in multiples of either 20 or 25 chicks.
• Arrival and Pickup: Your chicks may arrive Wednesday or Thursday following their Tuesday hatch, and some shipments may take until Friday. Please be on call and ready to collect them as soon as your post office phones. Your phone number will be written on the box, so provide a number where you can reliably be reached. You must be available throughout this arrival window; please do not plan around one specific arrival day.
• Prompt Collection: Chicks need to be picked up from the post office as soon as they arrive. We cannot be responsible for losses caused by delayed collection or by a customer being unavailable to pick them up.
• Tracking: Tracking does not work reliably for our live chick shipments. The boxes are hand-passed and transferred without reliable transit scans. Please do not rely on tracking to tell you where your chicks are or when to collect them. Missing updates are expected and are not, on their own, a reason to worry. Stay available for the post office's phone call instead.

Allowing for Shipping Losses

Losses of around 1–5% during shipping or shortly after arrival are considered normal. Please allow for an extra 5% when deciding how many chicks to order, above the number you hope to keep, while ordering in the shipping quantities listed above. These extra chicks are your responsibility to purchase; normal shipping losses are not refunded or replaced.

If There Is a Major Shipping Problem

If your shipment suffers significant losses or appears to have been mishandled, please contact us promptly. We want to know what happened so we can report the issue to Canada Post and work with you on possible replacement arrangements.

Canada Post does not cover losses of live chicks or reimburse us for them. Replacements are not automatically guaranteed, but we will review serious shipping problems with you and help arrange replacements where possible.

By choosing shipping, you accept the risk of transit losses and agree to be available to collect your chicks promptly. Pickup remains the best option for reducing shipping stress and risk.

We are offering day-old chicks only for 2027. Hatching eggs, point-of-lay hens, and full-grown birds are not available.