TSC selling wrong chicks

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My Cornish rocks were traded last night. I could not do the deed. My husband works with someone that took them. I have them a bath and spent the afternoon with them. They were becoming very tired and it was hard for them to move around. The quality of their short life was becoming poor. I know they had
a very wonderful life and I will miss them. It's so strange how we become so attached to animals. I am glad I do not hold the memory of having to do it. But I bet that is the best tasting chicken that family will ever eat.
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tigerchick said:
My Cornish rocks were traded last night. I could not do the deed. My husband works with someone that took them. I have them a bath and spent the afternoon with them. They were becoming very tired and it was hard for them to move around. The quality of their short life was becoming poor. I know they had
a very wonderful life and I will miss them. It's so strange how we become so attached to animals. I am glad I do not hold the memory of having to do it. But I bet that is the best tasting chicken that family will ever eat.
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Oh, I'm sorry. We are not too far behind you.
There's nothing wrong with trading them. You honored their lives. :)
 
My biggest issue with our TSC is just how ignorant they are about the chicks in general. If they are going to continue selling chicks at all some education is in order. I have seen them sell cornish x to people who clearly only wanted layer hens, I have seen them tell customers they can't mix breeds at all leaving them thinking their only option is a flock of identical looking chickens and I called once to see if they had any chicks left and was told "there are a few left that say they are bantanas, do you know what that breed is?". If I see them giving a customer ridiculously bad information I always try to help but they always try to pretend they KNOW and most customers will listen to the feed store "expert" over some crazy fellow customer. I shudder to think of the poor families trying to figure out what to do with very much unwanted cornish x chickens they bought for eggs!
 
I bought what were supposed to be meat birds from tsc. I now have a very fat chick that isn't growing like the rest. I read this post and now wonder if it is a layer not a meat bird. It looks like the rest of the meat birds. Is there another explanation if it is a meat bird as to why it isn't growing correctly? I can post a picture if that would help.
 
Try milk. I only gave it to my birds twice but they love it!!!! Give it to the out of their coop. They sling it everywhere. I either read it in Raising Chickens or on this site. It helps fatten them up. Its funny to watch also.
 

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