Am I being treated right, as a customer?

[cottontail farm]

Tenrec, did you eventually get your birds?

 

[Tenrec]

Cottontail, I haven't gotten my birds yet, they're due to ship May 15....Can't wait, but from your story, I need to be extra vigilant.

Sounds like you had a real sour service with customer service there! I wonder if Mr. Metzer himself knows? I'm glad you got your birds safe...How's the duckling doing? Can I see the little gosling? I need a fix lol.

 

[cottontail farm]

Here they are! The idea was to bring then in from the brooder for a photo shoot but that plan derailed when my helper showed up (she's an indoor cat and thought it was the best thing ever).
All of them are doing great and huge already can't wait to get them outside.

 

[incubatornewbie]

I just wanted to say that I used Hoovers this year despite some bad reviews I had found. And though I haven't ordered goslings (yet, I'm definitely either getting goslings or ducks) I did happen to order 2 batches of chicks this year that were very punctual right on the shipping marks. With email shipping confirmation. I didn't lose a single chick from the first batch but I did lose a couple of weaklings from the second. The first were 8 BO hens, 2 BO roos and 5 hatchery choice hens. Great birds and the sexing was really accurate. So far, I'm pretty sure they're all exactly what I ordered. I recently ordered 20 RiR hens. Still too early to tell if the ones that made it are definitely female. I'm getting refunded for the 3 that I lost of the RiRs with NO HASSLE. I ordered the second batch on a Monday, they shipped that Wednesday! Always very helpful on the phone and I'm really happy with the quality of service as well as the quality of bird. I feel that their prices are also very comparable especially since they ship free. The only problem I see is that the free shipping does take an extra day depending how close you are. I expected my first order to come in on Wednesday so, like you, I scrambled to prepare and even rode into work with my husband very early in the morning so that I could be at the post office when they were ready. No such luck, I did the same thing the next day and they came in! I was so excited and happy. I now wait until the second morning after shipping to travel into town.

 

[Tenrec]

cottontail, those are SO CUTE. I didn't get to these until the site went down, so sorry for the late response. I did SEE them though, and they helped me cope with waiting lol.

Those are dewlap Africans right? Who's the little yellow one? Is that a Chinese? So precious.

And your cat has a little milkstache! I have a girl of my own living in the brooder room (my room lol). She's pretty much lost all her fascination with baby birds by now, haha.

As for my geese, I DID get some little goslings. The day after mother's day, my three dewlap toulouse eggs hatched into this:

And let me tell you, it's a world of difference imprinting these guys right before and after they hatch. It's a two-way street too; I wasn't expecting to feel this much love and worry over them! As a matter of fact, as soon as those little goosie eyes looked at me, I was so in love that I immediately felt distress for my goslings in the mail. I felt awful for putting them through shippnig. Rationally, I know they'll be ok, but emotionally I think I was going through the thoughts of putting my OWN babies in a box and shipping them away, and having anxiety over that irrational feeling.

Wednesday morning, my little babies from Metzer arrived. Here they are!

A pair of dewlap toulouse (the little boy is in front, girl in the back) and four runner ducklings. They arrived clean, alert, and healthy, if a little frightened. They ate ALL the gro-gel, which I hear they generally don't touch? As soon as I put food and water down for them, they attacked it. The imprinting isn't as strong, but they've grown attached to me and still follow me. They're so precious!

Metzer gave me a tracking number before they shipped out, which I appreciate. Hopefully they're fixing up whatever communication issue they had.

I will say that these goslings are much smaller than the ones I hatched, despite being the same age. I'm keeping the little boy weighed to make sure he's growing, as he's the smallest. They're still eating a lot, bright, and alert, however.

 

[cottontail farm]

Oh!!! They're so cute! I just want to give them a squeeze through my phone screen! Mine are 3super africans and an embden. They are huge now and love to be cuddled even though I'm only in the run a couple times a day.

I have runner ducks and love them. The best ducks; an egg every single day and one hatched a nest - her granddaughter is now wanting to sit too. In fact my order included two blue runners to add to the flock.

All in all, my birds are doing well. The one jumbo pekin is still half the size of the other but I can't complain about the rest of the birds. The runners look like they're going to have really beautiful coloring.

Glad everyone made it ok! And yes, mine ate ALL the gro gell, both orders.