Can I just please blow off some steam??

[TennesseeTruly]

Okay, so I've only been involved with chickens since the end of February or the beginning of March. I had an incubator for years and decided to get eggs and hatch some. Great! Everything turns out better than I could have hoped. I've been incubating eggs from both ebay and here on BYC.

Then someone bamboozles me! I don't know if I'm more angry or hurt. I paid for some SLW eggs that I really really wanted. My husband told me, choose either BO's or SLW's. I pay for them, from someone that I thought I had developed a friendship with, put those sweet eggs into the 'bator, even though I questioned that at least 2 eggs looked like bantam sized. (She sometimes throws extras in, which I didn't mind)

I lovingly turned those eggs, counted down the days until they would hatch. I wake up this morning to chicks. Only one is POSSIBLY a SLW. And I'm sure the little teeny tiny feather footed bantam is NOT a SLW.

Of course I'm here by myself as my husband headed to NY with my grandson so he could see his mother for his birthday (today). I just sat down on the chair in my incubator/brooder room and cried. Talk about betrayal. My husband has told me for years that people on the other side of this monitor aren't worth getting emotionally involved with until you either actually meet them or talk to them on the phone. Sometimes I wish I had taken his advice.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Laurie

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

That's awful

I'm sorry

Husbands are usually the ones who are more leary about computer swaps and are usually right most times it seems like. I hope they were not from BYC. I put more trust in the people I meet here then I would on Ebay but there are still times when were are misled here too. I wish I had some SLW eggs to send to you. Do you know what you ended up with? I know my SLW was mostly black when I got her and she got her lacing later. Weird but she was from a hatchery so I wasn't to surprised. Good luck to you!

 

[sundance]

You meet these people everywhere You were doing good so try not to let one bad experience ruin what is a great thing. chalk it up to lost money, grin and wish them the very best, the wheel always goes round, marrie

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Unfortunately yes, its a BYC member. Over the last week, I've read on the feedback forum that she's done this to other people so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. I even voiced that to my husband last night. When I told him, he said, "isn't she the one that gave you the great feedback on BYC?" When I informed him yes, he told me then don't worry about it.

Darn, I guess I'm just too sensitive.

I do have a SLW roo, who is the friendliest guy, (he runs to me when I enter the run). That's why I wanted to get the SLW's, I wanted to give him his own harem. LOL Ummmm....that didn't sound right.

Thanks for listening.

Laurie

 

[rancher hicks]

Well now darl'in let me try to cheer you up. First is it your husbands b-day? Cause it's mine to and just check out all the great people who were born on 5/29. John Kennedy was one.
Now I know your hurt that someone could not give you the right eggs, but maybe she just doesn't know as much about chickens as you give her credit for.
And you shouldn't take it as a sign that your a bad person because she did. You've got some nice chicks and maybe it's providence that they hatched in your incubator instead of hers. Lucky them.
I bet if you pick up those chicks your tears will become tears of joy.
Don't put this on yourself. That would be the real crime in all of this.
Your a good person who was taken advantage of and nothing can change that, unless you let it.

"Gray clouds are gonna clear up, so put on a happy face".

Love ya

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Thank you so much! Actually, its my grandson's birthday! He's 8 years old. My husband and I have been raising him since he was 2.

Could be another reason that I'm a bit weepy as well. First time I've been away from him on his birthday. He so wanted to see his mother, (we live 900 miles away from her and he only gets to see her twice a year), so I told my husband to take him and I would stay home and hold down the fort because I have eggs hatching

and I didn't want to leave the housesitter in charge of those.

I'll just look forward to raising these little fuzzbutts...after all...regardless if they're the SLW's that I wanted or not, they're cute!

Laurie

 

[debilorrah]

There is a feedback form now too. If it is a member you deal with GOOD OR BAD the form should be used.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

I'm going to leave her feedback now. I've left her positive feedback twice before but at that time I was getting a barnyard mixture and knew it. This time I know I was taken and will use the feedback feature to my advantage.

Laurie

 

[debilorrah]

And that is it is for too. So that the rest of us have a place to look up someone's reputation in order to make a good decision in future purchases.

 

[English Chick]

to you.... but before you eave negative feedback contact her with your concerns.. there COULD have been a genuine mistake made over the eggs.....

I have had dreadful exeperiences buying eggs from Ebay and would never do so again... but as it is a BYC member perhaps you should "talk" to her/him first......

I LOVE SLW.......