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Negative Sorrel_Mare1
(1 review)
On Jan 5, 2017, Sorrel_Mare1 Summers, AR wrote:

When I first ordered the chicks, 25 total, 9 were dead when I picked them up, after receiving them 4/5 days late. The chicks were dehydrated and ill. Only 5 survived from the first batch. After contacting them, they provided a full refund. However, when the refund chicks came in 7 were dead, but they did arrive on time. I ordered from this company because of their great reeves. I do not advise ordering from them. I was very disappointed.

Negative ashleymett
(1 review)
On Mar 16, 2014, ashleymett Wellsville, OH wrote:

Well my husband ordered a total of 15 chicks from here and when we went to pick them up at the post office I opened the box and there was 2 that were already stiff, dead and had been trampled by the rest. My husband ordered chicks off a different company and ordered 4 total when they arrived the 4 were in the same size box that Hoovers sent 19 in!!! We recieved the chicks from Hoover's on Friday by Sunday 12 were dead and few more look like they aren't going to make it as well. This is very inhumane and awful to do that to chicks. They said they'd make it right. Out of the 15 we ordered there was to be one rooster and the rest hens. We recieved 17 hens and 2 roosters. Including the dead ones. They should of been in at least 2-3 different boxes! We will never order from them in the future and would not reccomend them to anyone!

Negative Woodducky
(1 review)
On Jan 19, 2014, Woodducky Vernon Center, MN wrote:

We are a new chicken farmer, and have had some experience with Hoover. Our first batch of chicks ( broilers) came 3 weeks early and left us scrambling to make a brooder for them as our coop was not ready to receive them. Our second batch ( egg layers) came 1 day early, no big deal, but 2 of our chicks were roosters. In the end that was fine I guess, more roosters to protect the flock. Our third batch ( broilers), came 1 week early and since we had just finished building a new coop I had to throw together a brooder again in the new coop because the old coop was being cleaned and refurbished and was not ready for the new chicks.

All in all, getting the chicks early put us in a bind twice. As it is right now we are talking about getting our chicks from another supplier, but as I said, we are just talking about it. What ever we do decide to do we are doubling the size of our bird order than what we ordered last year and we don't want 60 chicks three weeks early!

Negative crazybanshee
(6 reviews)
On Jun 20, 2013, crazybanshee Clear Spring, MD wrote:

I ordered from Hoover Hatchery twice this year, and another online hatchery for 2 other orders. I hate to give these guys their first negative feedback but here's why I'm doing it. The first order was very early in the year. I ordered over 50 birds of various kinds. They quoted me a price with shipping. Received the boxes in a good amount of time, but the shipping was way higher than they quoted me. Also within the first 2 days of receiving them half the australorps died. Not sure if it was because they were in a separate box than the rest of the birds and got cold or some other reason. Called hoover, they did refund for the dead birds but were unapologetic about the significantly more expensive shipping. I wouldn't have minded but if that's the price it was going to be, but please tell me that up front. However it wasn't all bad and the rest of the birds seemed fine so I went ahead and placed a second order.

That was several months ago, and the reasons I'm giving them a negative are now coming to light. I purchased sexed pullets and I know there will be some percentage that are roosters because people are human and make mistakes. So far from the second batch of 40 I have 3 that are roosters for sure, and several more than I'm concerned are roosters. I could live with that, because maybe the guy was having a bad day. However I ordered easter eggers, and I received birds that are now clearly looking less and less like easter eggers. One hen looks to be a white rock maybe? One of the roosters is rumpless and tufted and I would swear he's an aracauna. I know easter eggers come from aracaunas, but I've never seen one that looked so much like a pure aracauna. It's a rooster anyway, but there's others that don't appear to be full easter eggers. Even accepting that I got a higher percentage of roosters, I ordered all easter eggers and seemed to get mostly easter eggers and some other stuff mixed in. I got suckered in by the cheap birds, but I'm not going to order from them anymore.