Hugging Roosters Farm

If you decide to buy an older chick or an adult bird, please be aware there is always a risk, unless this particular bird is recently tested for all the poultry diseases. It is also very hard to pinpoint which one was a health culprit when you bring a new bird into your existing flock. It could be the new bird being a silent carrier, or it could be someone in your existing flock. No way to conclude, unless you held the new birds in a bio-secure environment and visited them in a bio-suit. Over the years, we have had some customers testing their flocks, and some tested MG and/or coryza positive (these to seem to be the most common in our area), and some tested negative. We do not test our birds. We are only aware of one breeder in BC who says they test for MG.

We believe in breeding for resistance, we cull weak and small, and breed only the strongest, and hope that our birds will continue to be strong enough to withstand the disease pressure if exposed. We also watch our breeder birds very closely for any suspicious signs, as we hand-feed and hand-clean, and we were not losing any birds to any diseases. Please be aware that this is still not a guarantee that none of them may not be a silent carrier.

If you are not comfortable with this approach and philosophy, then our birds are not for you.

A lot of our customers raise their chickens in a similar environment, and they are comfortable with our husbandry practices.

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***POLICY UPDATE*** We request a NON-REFUNDABLE deposit on all purchases of live birds and hatching eggs.

50% - 22 days before the hatch date, when pre-ordering baby chicks for a specific hatch date

25% - 1 week before the pickup date, when booking hatching eggs

25% - to hold any bird / chick / eggs that is posted for sale.

Unfortunately over 90% of the arrangements do not work out if deposit is not paid. That costs us in our time and opportunity to sell the birds to other folks who could have picked them up. The deposit will serve as a commitment on both ends. If you cancel on your end, the deposit WILL NOT BE REFUNDED, and it will help us to compensate for the losses on our end when we end up with extra chicks that we now need to feed and house, or hatching eggs that could have been mailed on Mondays.

Our deepest apologies to all our loyal customers, I hope it will not be too upsetting for the folks who have been buying our chicks and hatching eggs.