Potential scenario with Ideal Poultry posted for a family member who needs advice:
We decided that we wanted to raise baby chickens. We ordered 30 baby chickens from Ideal Poultry. We paid extra for them to be all pullets but they were also on sale. I don't remember the exact price but it was around $1.00 off per bird so they were around $3.50. For the sake of me not remembering, we are going to say they were $3.50 each which is very close to accurate. Weeks later, they run the same sale and we purchase 60 more. It did not take but a few months for use to realize that they were almost all roosters. We contacted Ideal Poultry who said that it was impossible to tell until they were at least 16 weeks old. They told us, if we did get more than 90% roosters, they would refund the difference between the price of a rooster and hen which is roughly 75 cents per bird. I was not happy. At 16 weeks old, these are clearly 95% roosters--both sets of them. I contact Ideal Poultry. They will not refund any money. Even I paid full price for the birds, it would be less than $1 per bird for a refund. I got them on sale for the same price that the roosters were originally so I get no money back. I ask for a replacement of birds and that is not their policy. Apparently you agree to this policy when you buy birds from them. I bet that it has cost me $20 per bird to raise these babies for them to be all roosters. I have fed them medicated chick starter at $25-28 per bag. I have 90 chickens and they are 95% roosters. They are not selling very well even at $5 each and we are slowly giving them all away--minus the few hens. We feel like we have been scammed: they were able to sell us almost 90 roosters and get full price for them from us. We are out tons of dollars on feeding these birds. We are so upset that we are considering consulting a lawyer after the holidays. Not sure that it would do any good but we are at least going to get his advice.
We decided that we wanted to raise baby chickens. We ordered 30 baby chickens from Ideal Poultry. We paid extra for them to be all pullets but they were also on sale. I don't remember the exact price but it was around $1.00 off per bird so they were around $3.50. For the sake of me not remembering, we are going to say they were $3.50 each which is very close to accurate. Weeks later, they run the same sale and we purchase 60 more. It did not take but a few months for use to realize that they were almost all roosters. We contacted Ideal Poultry who said that it was impossible to tell until they were at least 16 weeks old. They told us, if we did get more than 90% roosters, they would refund the difference between the price of a rooster and hen which is roughly 75 cents per bird. I was not happy. At 16 weeks old, these are clearly 95% roosters--both sets of them. I contact Ideal Poultry. They will not refund any money. Even I paid full price for the birds, it would be less than $1 per bird for a refund. I got them on sale for the same price that the roosters were originally so I get no money back. I ask for a replacement of birds and that is not their policy. Apparently you agree to this policy when you buy birds from them. I bet that it has cost me $20 per bird to raise these babies for them to be all roosters. I have fed them medicated chick starter at $25-28 per bag. I have 90 chickens and they are 95% roosters. They are not selling very well even at $5 each and we are slowly giving them all away--minus the few hens. We feel like we have been scammed: they were able to sell us almost 90 roosters and get full price for them from us. We are out tons of dollars on feeding these birds. We are so upset that we are considering consulting a lawyer after the holidays. Not sure that it would do any good but we are at least going to get his advice.
