Has anyone ever ordered babe chicks for a present for someone?
I plan on doing that for Christmas for my boyfriend this year.
I was going to get him something else, but I really have no money and I know kid chicks are inexpensive. Is it ok to raise them in a living room or a home, or is it best to maintain them outside? Also, where are some stores that you can get nurture and a chick waterer? What do you think he should with them after they grow to chickens? I doubt he has anywhere to preserve them anyway.
Of adjectives the worst presents there are that has got to be surrounded by the top ten. Take that back top two.
You have never been around chickens or chicks to be badly informed they smell to high heaven if not kept completely clean. No way could you have them within your living room for more than a week or two.Buy him something small or a book of one of his hobbies. Then give him a bunch of tickets for a back rub,clean his room or apartment.,a domestic cooked dinner ,pie,or cake. Use your imagination but please forget the chickens.
If you are certain your boyfriend requests grown chickens, then sure give him the bequest.
Start out by giving him a gift card from you , with an IOU baby chicks inside as the present.
Then be certain he has the heat lamp, the pen, the big chicken house and chicken telecommunication play yard all built , before you draw from them.
You may have trouble buying chicks except in the spring/summer, as most hatcheries, quit hatch, and many chickens quit laying.
There are many breeds of Chickens and other fancy birds, so check out MurrayMcMurray Hatchery, they own a great variety and I bought fancy Silky Chicks for my daughter there before.
Chickens stink, doomed to failure, so they aren't good raised in your living room.
There are other pets that are much easier to keep hold of, so be sure your IOU says (or other pet under $ 20 , or some such).
life isn't an episode of Friends where on earth it's okay to keep a Chicken in your apartment and let it run free. They are out door animals for a idea. Why don't you go to an animal rescuse an adopt an animal. It's far less than buying from a breeder and you're doing a good piece helping animals.
When I adpoted my cat from a shelter, she was up to date on shots and was already spayed. The most expensive thing (besides the adoption fee) we have to get for her was her little box and carrier for the ride domestic.
BAD IDEA! If you have time every few hours to feed them until they are old satisfactory, then a large pen to keep them contained by...like on a farm...and even then racoons dogs and cats will try to execute them. Then when they grow to chickens, you know hes not going to want them running around his house. Bad bad idea, nice thought but that is a destruction sentence for the chicks. Sad ending.
I don't have money this year for christmas either. I am buying a picture frame from the dollar store and framing a nice picture of my boyfriend and I. Then I am going to the craft store and getting some craft paste and gluing memory stuff like ticket stubs, etc. to the frame to make it more personal. You could do a total photo album or scrapbook if you want. Thats cheap and nice. Or you could do that and cook him a nice candlelight dinner. There are many ideas that culture have posted on here and way cheaper and better than chicks.
I. Actually my aunt gave 2 babe-in-arms chicks to my 10 year old cousin a few years back, and they are happy and robust (as is my cousin)! I think it's a really cute idea.
II. I don't know too much about chicks, but you might be capable of do some research on them over the internet.
III. I think it's a good idea to keep hold of them in the house unless you have a fenced in courtyard with a shed, then I would let them out to play for a few hours or so.
IIV. There aren't any chick feeders or anything close to that, but a small cat dish will work perfectly,
IV. When they grow up, he could put an add up on www.craigslist.org or if he know someone who has a farm, then grant them away to that person.
I really hope you decide to do it because chicks are alot of fun!
You never surprise anyone with live animals! No matter how cheap they are to buy, they are expensive to keep, and also whether someone gets a pet, they have to be reasonably certain they can keep it for the rest of its life, not plan on dumping it when it grows up! These are lives that need lots of charge and a huge commitment! Would you surprise your boyfriend with a human baby?
Never get pets as presents. End of story.
That's a horrible bequest. My uncle once gave me 3 baby chicks when I was a kid. My folks couldn't afford to preserve them because you had to buy chicken feed in huge sack. Wound up giving them to a farmer who raised and then ate them.
Answers: You may be doing the chicks a great disservice. They need room to grow, and be able to move around some. Keeping them within the house over the winter, will not only be hard and time consuming, it will smell, unless the pen is constantly cleaned. Chicken poop stinks. This is not a good endowment idea at all. 87% of chicks and ducks given as gifts this way any die, or end up in an animal shelter. They are not a good contribution idea. If you don't have any money, make something, or cook something. Make "coupons" for favors or chores. Just don't carry him chickens...bad idea...
