Cackle Hatchery

Place Order By Mail Option

Notice - There are 2 steps to figure your shipping. Use this chart when figuring your shipping charges and then add charges from zone chart below. IMPORTANT: This is only necessary if you are ordering by mail, if ordering over the Internet, charges are figured automatically. There is a minimum of $15.00 shipping charge on all orders over the Internet.this applies to POULTRY.

To print out an order form, Click Here . Using the instructions below you can figure your shipping charges. Please read the guarantee below. Fill our order form and mail with correct funds. We will contact you by phone or e-mail when to expect your chicks.

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Step 1:

25 chicks or less:.............................$8.00
26-50 birds.....................................$6.00
51-99 birds:....................................$.12¢ per bird
100 Birds........................................$6.00
101-300..........................................$5.00
101-300......June thru August...........$6.00

Step 2

To find your zone refer to zone chart below, then add charges on chart below to your total from the above chart.

100% Live Delivery Guaranteed
We guarantee that you will receive full count of live, healthy poultry according to this guarantee. We place extra chicks in each box to help fulfill this guarantee. However, if losses should occur in shipment and you do receive less live chicks than you order, we will make adjustment either by replacing poultry, by cash refund or by issuing you a credit good on next order. Please open chick boxes immediately and inspect poultry. If you do not have full count, please ask the delivery agent to sign your statement of loss and send to us immediately. Replacements are postage collect. Any loss must be reported to the hatchery within 3 days of receipt for any adjustment to be made. 

                                                                                    
Quality Guaranteed. All Cackle poultry are guaranteed to be of the grade, quality, sex and breed as represented. Should any error occur we will make prompt adjustment. In producing these chicks the seller has followed approved and recommended methods of flock control and egg selection and has established sanitary and disease control standards in the Hatchery operation. Seller does not warrant poultry to be free from any disease which could not be ascertained at the time of sale. Liability is limited in all cases to replacement of damaged chicks and extra chicks must apply. Replacement good for 1 time only. Under no circumstances shall our liability, on claims of any kind, exceed the total price paid for poultry. We participate in the United States Department of Agriculture Animal Health inspection service "National Poultry Improvement Plan".

Website/Catalog Pricing:
While we have taken every precaution to ensure accurate prices, we cannot guarantee the website/catalog to be free of pricing and description errors.  Also, prices may change without notice.  The merchandise prices on this website supersede all prior prices. 

Cockerel Guarantee
We reserve the right to substitute straight run if necessary to fill orders. We reserve the right to limit quantities.

Sexing guaranteed 95%. We guarantee on pullet orders that you will receive at least 95% pullets. If you should receive more than 5% cockerels we will refund the difference between pullet and cockerel prices over 5%. Claims must be sent directly to us when chicks are not more than 12 weeks old. Does not apply to assorted chicks.
The Cackle Hatchery has been hatching U.S. Pullorum Clean Baby chicks since 1936. We currently do not ship outside the U.S. and U.S. Territories.

OUR RESPONSIBILITY to you as a customer is to provide healthy good quality chicks that arrive to you alive and in good condition.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITY is to provide an environment with proper heat, food and water as given in our care sheet. To report any unsafe delivery to us as instructed in the above "Live Delivery Guarantee" section.

Cancelled order fee (restocking fee) 10% – Any orders placed and then cancelled will have 10% of the total price deducted from the total purchase and shipping price and the difference refunded by check if paid by check and if paid by credit card will have the credit card credited back the difference. (Rationale for the fee) – Orders booked are taken off the market for sale and are marked sold and we potentially could have a lost opportunity for a buyer . Book keeping and labor cost to process the cancelled order along with postage or credit card fees to process credits.  It is common practice for customers to order their poultry 6-8 weeks in advance of the time they would like them delivered. Allow up to 3 weeks for your refunds and credit backs to be completed.

Boxing: All poultry will be boxed according to the weather, so the poultry will have the best chance of survival. Because of this, breeds and sexes must be mixed.  Unless indicated by you, breeds and sexes will not be marked.

Copyright notice: All rights reserved, all photos in this catalog are the property of Cackle Hatchery and all copying is strictly prohibited.

At no time will our guarantee exceed the original purchase price.