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Derpsauce1337 t1_jciuwwm wrote

Reply to comment by SilverAudience2 in TIL that USPS ships day old baby chicks in the mail by shelovesbackshots

They're only allowed to be shipped on the ground, stay in temperature controlled environments between drives, and have enough nutrients for 72 hours

If everything is done as it should - the peepers will be just fine

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Iz-kan-reddit t1_jcj1jw7 wrote

>and have enough nutrients for 72 hours

Baby chicks have 72 hours of nutrients built into them when they hatch. That's why the process of shipping chicks the same day as they hatch works so well.

It would be a logistics nightmare shipping three-day-old chicks.

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