Chicken/Quail incubator kit question

[bugmankeith]

I receive a science magazine in the mail that the local schools here use to order science supplies from. The public can order from it, just that schools find this company the best choice for prices/shipping. I noticed they have an egg incubator you can get for about $300 plus mabye $40-50 for 4-6 live leghorn chicken or button quail eggs (one species or the other) plus feed for the chicks. I've seen elementry kids use this kit for science fairs and the schools allow it, and I think owning chickens is legal but not sure about button quails. You also get a certificate that you ordered the live eggs.

My question is what do you do after the chicks hatch and eat all the food up? Do you keep them as pets, give them back to the company? I imagine sending them back would be difficult since they are live animals and not bugs and make alot of noise and could die being shipped without proper heating/setup.

Has anyone had one of these kits? I think it would be fun to keep them if you had the room and money for them.

 

[Hedorah99]

You wind up getting stuck with the quails or chickens. The zoo I work at gets offers for lots of these yearly. We don't accept them.

 

[bugmankeith]

Oh wow, ok so they should definetly learn to put a warning in the magazine that you end up keeping them yourself, at least that way you dont buy them and are surprised. I dont have room where I live, but if I ever move and get a big property who knows.

 

[ShellsandScales]

I don't understand what else you thought was supposed to happen with them??????? You would pay to order the kit and eggs, hatch them, and then not keep them????

some options: They would make great snake food or you raise them up and make a meal out of it.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Oh wow, ok so they should definetly learn to put a warning in the magazine that you end up keeping them yourself, at least that way you dont buy them and are surprised..

Seriously?

-Brad

 

[Steven Valys]

what do you do after the chicks hatch and eat all the food up?

Send them to me! The Emus and Guinea Hens always need new friends.

 

[bugmankeith]

I never got any I was just asking!

I thought you had to give them to a farm at a certain age, I mean chickens arent really popular in Long Island only upstate NY on farms, I dont see how they would survive on LI. And exotic vets for chickens/quails, I know of none by me.