California - Northern

[ronott1]

That is a better one.

Mottled sebright?

 

[chiqita]

Mottles sebright?

Nope! See the smudge by googly eyes head? Ill try and get one more everyone is zipping around.

 

[chiqita]

 

[tommysgirl]

Does anyone live near St. Catharines, ON?

Hi Aronia... Welcome to the Northern California thread. I don't think you will find anyone from Ontario Canada here but you will find nice people who are willing to share information, advice and some laughs

Howdy all! I am skimming. The fowl pox pics are...well foul but thank you Kathy for posting them. I had a hard time finding good pics last spring when I thought Ozzie had a case...turns out he was scabby from fence fighting with the General.

Looking for advice on how to prevent a situation in the future that I am currently in:

I sold NH/Dorking chicks last spring to a gal. These are supposed to be SL and the ones I have here definitely are. Girls are Red boys are silver/white She says I gave her a cockerel instead of a pullet...I think that is what she is claiming anyway, she was a bit garbled in her text. I sold several white boys from that same clutch as cockerels and have not heard anything to the contrary from that customer. They would be about 16 weeks now so sex will have become obvious.

She also took 4 of the Silkie/D'Uccle babies 1 silver and 3 Gold. These were rumored to have been SL by a BYC person but that has not turned out to be the case. I never represented the bantams as SL b/c I didn't know. Anyway she is now saying I guaranteed the bantams to be pullets and wants to know if I have any pullets to swap them out for. She bought chicks but wants pullets near POL in exchange

I sent her a text back asking for clarification, pics of the birds in question and telling her that I have no spare pullets. I have not heard back.

I am willing to refund her money and take the cockerels back but how do I know she didn't purchase birds from someone else too and is trying to switch on me or something.

To help prevent this in the future.
Should I produce a document with each sale w/ pics of the chicks, their sex if they are SL or "sold as SR" if they aren't?

 

[tommysgirl]

Picture is dark but can anyone guess the experiment im trying?

Mottled Serama?...maybe I just revealed my ignorance... they might already come mottled

 

[chiqita]

Hi Aronia... Welcome to the Northern California thread.   I don't think you will find anyone from Ontario Canada here but you will find nice people who are willing to share information, advice and some laughs


Howdy all!  I am skimming.  The fowl pox pics are...well foul but thank you Kathy for posting them.   I had a hard time finding good pics last spring when I thought Ozzie had a case...turns out he was scabby from fence fighting with the General.

Looking for advice on how to prevent a situation in the future that I am currently in: 

I sold NH/Dorking chicks last spring to a gal.  These are supposed to be SL and the ones I have here definitely are.  Girls are Red boys are silver/white  She says I gave her a cockerel instead of a pullet...I think that is what she is claiming anyway, she was a bit garbled in her text. I sold several white boys from that same clutch as cockerels and have not heard anything to the contrary from that customer.   They would be about 16 weeks now so sex will have become obvious.

  She also took 4 of the Silkie/D'Uccle babies 1 silver and 3 Gold.   These were rumored to have been SL by a BYC person but that has not turned out to be the case.   I never represented the bantams as SL b/c I didn't know.   Anyway she is now saying I guaranteed the bantams to be pullets and wants to know if I have any pullets to swap them out for.  She bought chicks but wants pullets near POL in exchange

I sent her a text back asking for clarification, pics of the birds in question and telling her that I have no spare pullets. I have not heard back.

I am willing to refund her money and take the cockerels back but how do I know she didn't purchase birds from someone else too and is trying to switch on me or something. 

To help prevent this in the future.
Should I produce a document with each sale w/ pics of the chicks, their sex if they are SL or  "sold as SR" if they aren't?

When I was having problems with people misremembering what is sexed and what is not is send an email to people who got about what was sexed and what I said.

If there was an issue they had to send it back to me because I WOULD NOT REMEMBER they got anything sexed sonce it was so rare for me to sell it.

My issue was people would look at the sexed 5 week old ees and decide they wanted something else but remember the magic word..Girl! Only lol.

So now if I do any gurentee its written from me. I keep a copy in a folder to look at too in case they call and have lost the email.

That they remember cut the confusion down to perhaps 1 a year.

 

[tridentk9]

If you do this every day starting in mid october, you will have more eggs too.

Oh my-a perfect run in for a question I've been mulling over.

When I had Eric The Bird I had a full spectrum light for him. They are also recommended for humans with SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Does anyone use full spectrum lighting in their coop in the fall and winter? Have they noticed a difference in their birds?

 

[ronott1]

Oh my-a perfect run in for a question I've been mulling over.

When I had Eric The Bird I had a full spectrum light for him. They are also recommended for humans with SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Does anyone use full spectrum lighting in their coop in the fall and winter? Have they noticed a difference in their birds?

chickens do better with incandescent or LED lights. Cool white to slightly orange light is best for laying hens.

 

[tommysgirl]

When I was having problems with people misremembering what is sexed and what is not is send an email to people who got about what was sexed and what I said.

If there was an issue they had to send it back to me because I WOULD NOT REMEMBER they got anything sexed sonce it was so rare for me to sell it.

My issue was people would look at the sexed 5 week old ees and decide they wanted something else but remember the magic word..Girl! Only lol.

So now if I do any gurentee its written from me. I keep a copy in a folder to look at too in case they call and have lost the email.

That they remember cut the confusion down to perhaps 1 a year.

Thanks! the email is a great idea

"My issue was people would look at the sexed 5 week old ees and decide they wanted something else but remember the magic word..Girl! Only lol."

That's exactly what I think happened here. NH over Dorking produces Red Girls and White/Yellow Boys. NH over CG produces solid black girls with red head and chest fuzz and boys with a head spot. This is the clutch from which she got chicks. You can see the little yellow guy in the back at 11:00 there is a little red girl at 3:00 and at 5:00. and the chicks at 6:00 and 10:00 were pullets too...see the reddish tint? Unless something bizarre happened in the phantom hensemenator dept have the same parents as the jet black boy with the head spot between them.


Thanks for the help! I will let you know what happens. I responded to her immediately and was nice but have not heard anything back yet.

 

[TheKeeper]

I have a Spangled Sussex that developed something strange happening with her eye when she was around a year & 1/2.
The iris will change shape and she seems to have somewhat diminished sight but is not blind.
Left eye - normal

Right eye - not normal