CRAIGSLIST: Dumb stuff callers say when answering your listing

Just checked my e-mail and have one more thing to add.

Sketchy stranger - "so th qul hav claws like chikens yea"
Me - "button quail do have small claws, but they don't usually scratch"
Sketchy stranger - "hw many cocks u hav"
Me - "There is a special place in hell for you people"

(so happy I am finally done with darn broken hovabator. ******* thing kept me up till 1 am. From now on I stick to brinsea and homebrews)
 
Aside from their horrible spelling, what's the problem? Maybe they wanted to buy your extra roosters for hunting or butchering...
Depending on where they live, cock fighting can be a real issue. And the fact that he was asking about claws, raises more suspicion. I will not sell more than one rooster at a time because of this or to people who email me asking for my roosters only. Where I live cock fighting is extremely common and they will take your calm pet roosters and use them for practice fighting (Meaning they'll let their prized fighting cock beat up on a defenseless bird for practice without theirs getting injured). Maybe they would want them for meat but I don't like risking it out here.
 
Just checked my e-mail and have one more thing to add.

Sketchy stranger - "so th qul hav claws like chikens yea"
Me - "button quail do have small claws, but they don't usually scratch"
Sketchy stranger - "hw many cocks u hav"
Me - "There is a special place in hell for you people"

(so happy I am finally done with darn broken hovabator. ******* thing kept me up till 1 am. From now on I stick to brinsea and homebrews)


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I have never had anyone ask about claws in reference to fighting... I think they were looking for birds for a religion related use... If I am right your response to them is kinda funny..
 
I love these stories! I have one of my own, too.

I posted Roosters for Sale on Craigs List, $5 each. I was very specific about the age ranges, breed, general location, and that the purchaser(s) would have to bring their own containers, as I had none to provide. I had a man e-mail me wanting to know how many I had (15). He wanted all of them, but asked if we could meet him halfway between his house and ours at an exit off the interstate. I told him no, if he wanted them he had to come to our home, as I had no way to transport 15 roosters at one time - even if I did, I wasn't going to consider trying to swap 15 agitated roosters from one vehicle to another in a parking lot!

We finally arranged a time that he would come and get them. My DH was home to help get them from the brooder we had contained them in. An unfamiliar car slowly crawled past our driveway, and turned around, stopping at the mailbox. DH and I looked at each other - could that be our buyer? Indeed, it was. A man in a late-model Lexus got out, and introduced himself. We asked him if he had crates for the roosters, and he opened the trunk - that was where he wanted us to help him put the roosters.

Well - I wasn't entirely thrilled with this - but DH and I were both working insane hours, and had no time to process the roosters for ourselves. We had the man stay at the car, making sure the roosters didn't escape as we grabbed them and put them in his trunk. He paid us, but before he left he asked if he could also have a hen. I looked at DH in disbelief; he couldn't put one poor hen in the trunk with all those roosters! No, he agreed - she would ride in the care with him. He opened up the back seat, we put her back there, and he drove off.

I can only imagine his hour-long ride home with an uncontained, unhappy hen in the back seat - and the mess that had to be in the trunk when he finally got to his destination.
 
I have never had anyone ask about claws in reference to fighting... I think they were looking for birds for a religion related use... If I am right your response to them is kinda funny..
Can you elaborate? What religion and what are they using them for? I've not heard of this.
 
Quote: My understanding on the subject is sketchy as its not a subject I bring up with the people I know that practice these religions.

Pagan, Wicca, Voodoo, Hoodoo an others all use bird feet in some way as charms. Rooster feet are preferred cause they are more aggressive an the protectors. Powders are thrown on the ground in the path of people to cast spells on them. Chickens like to claw around in anything thrown on the ground, messing it up. Clawed rooster feet are carried as protection charms to claw threw any bad stuff put in the persons path. People carry them, hang them in their cars, in their houses, everywhere.


The timing is the thing too. Looking birds with claws an wanting roosters just before Halloween... I think its a religious thing having to do with Halloween..
 
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My understanding on the subject is sketchy as its not a subject I bring up with the people I know that practice these religions.

Pagan, Wicca, Voodoo, Hoodoo an others all use bird feet in some way as charms. Rooster feet are preferred cause they are more aggressive an the protectors. Powders are thrown on the ground in the path of people to cast spells on them. Chickens like to claw around in anything thrown on the ground, messing it up. Clawed rooster feet are carried as protection charms to claw threw any bad stuff put in the persons path. People carry them, hang them in their cars, in their houses, everywhere.
Okay, thank you. I was thinking along the lines of kosher......and just couldn't figure out how claws mattered! I guess I can see how claws would matter with those beliefs, a clawless foot would be a pretty worthless charm, wouldn't it? Thx for the education.
 
People use quail for fighting? Huh, I've never heard of that. My dad likes to hunt quail and typically asks his breeder for the extra cocks, because he'll sell them cheaper. Same for if we just want to eat them, the roos are usually cheaper and a little bigger.
I can see some religious ritual, sort of. Again, do those voo-dooish religions use quail for that type of thing? Don't they typically use chickens? Sorry, I'm not trying to start some heated topic, I'm just genuinely curious
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And OMG about the guy driving home with 15 roosters in his trunk! I had a lady come to pick up a small flock in her Subaru wagon, she didn't have crates or boxes but she had a divider to keep her pets in the rear. At least she had a rubber/plastic liner back there too. EW. Oh, and I had one person bring a whole bunch of pillow cases once too. We stuck each bird in one and sat them on the back seat
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I've gotten a few weirdies :gig
 

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