10 week old Brown Shaver Pullets from Appletons 

Most of our brown shaver pullets go to their new homes at 10 weeks of age. (This is a good age to get them.)
At 10 weeks they cannot be added in with laying hens (too young and on a different feed)
Occassionally we do have slightly older. Please note up to 18 weeks in age they need to kept on the Weston Chicks Choice for best results.

PICK UP ONLY
If purchasing pullets from us they will need to go with a minimum of 1 x 25kg bag of the same feed that they have been on and are accustomed too. This means one less stress when they move to their new home and coop. It is company policy and in the best interests of the fowl they go to their new home with the same quality feed they are accustomed too. We highly recommend taking what is required to grow them on to POL to get best results. Please do not place an order if you are not happy to purchase feed with your pullets.
The feed can be ordered and paid for on pullet pickup.
If feed is ordered and paid for in advance their may be a price adjustment on the bag price on pick up due to the Iranial Confilict impacting on feed and fuel prices.

HAPPY TO OFFER ADVICE
We are happy to advise with tips and advice on getting your new girls settled in. We like our girls to go to new homes around 10 to 12 weeks of age which gives them plenty of time to settle in and adjust to their new coop prior to starting to lay. It is important to be aware that if you have purchased pullets that are POL or just started laying they will go off the lay for a while once they move homes. This is perfectly normal as their routine has been interrupted and they need to adjust to a new roost, new flock mates and new surroundings.

PULLETS ARE VACCINATED
All our brown shavers have been vaccinated as day-old chicks at the hatchery. They are injected with Marek’s and sprayed with Megan®Salmonella Vac 1 vaccine. We request non-beak-trimmed chicks but sometimes due to availability, they do not always arrive and the odd batch has their beaks trimmed. The chick is not harmed during the beak trimming process and this process reduces possible harmful peaking within the laying flock.

FLOCK BIRDS
Brown Shavers are flock birds and live in family groups so keeping one or two is not ideal, especially if you lose one and the last one is then left on its own.

LATE PICKUP
We can offer a late pick-up date, which is the following week at an appointed time. There will be an additional cost of $3 per pullet for this service.

Our brown shaver girls are happy and healthy and raised with care 😊

They are shed-raised and once-off heat (and a good size!) we let them outside to start enjoying their greens, fresh air, sunshine and all the other delights of being a free-range chook. We raise them on a premium quality chick feed - Weston Chicks Choice. They are best fed on this up to 18 weeks or point of lay. They have this quality feed available at all times for optimum growth. We find the Weston Milling feed to be the best feed as it contains both naturally occurring ruminant proteins (blood, meat and bone meal) and vegetable-based proteins. Feeding quality feed for the first 18 weeks makes all the difference and will grow good, strong, healthy birds. Good, strong, healthy birds if well looked after and kept on premium layer pellets will reward you with many eggs.

Terms of purchase:

• Payment required on placing your order, thank you.
• Price is per pullet and includes GST.
• Minimum order of 3 pullets.
• Minimum 1 x 25kg bag of crumble will need to be ordered separately or collected and paid for when pullets are picked up. Weston Chicks Choice 
• Collection needs to be on the dates specified.
• We do not grow pullets on to 18 weeks of age or POL (point of lay)
• PICK UP ONLY from our Brightwater Store in Mt Heslington Road.
• We cannot courier livestock.
• Please do not place an order if you cannot collect.
• If you cancel your pullet pre-order you will be charged a cancellation fee of $5 per pullet, + a shopify payments cancellation fee of 3.6% if your payment was made online by card. Pay by internet banking to avoid the Shopify cancellation charge. Thank you.
• Please read our ts and cs. We do not offer refunds on livestock.
• All pullets are vaccinated at a day old against Marek's and Salmonella.
• Infrared beak trimming (IRBT) Please be aware this can happen. We request non IRBT chicks, but due to last minute short hatches the occassional batch we receive can arrive with this treatment.