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How was he weird? That's something that I always worry about, someone will come just to check out what I've got and come back when I'm not home.
When someone asks when they can come, I tell them that I have friends over and its not a good time, instead of stating that I'm not home. And I don't give them my address until I know that I'll be there all day. And then I tell people that I'm always home I don't really go anywhere... which is mostly true lol
Same here, I'm almost always here, with a couple guns around. We're in a rural area that stays pretty iffy, lol. Since that guy was around I no longer give people my address, I meet them in a grocery store parking lot- and the folks at the store know me well.
First, he called from a nearby feed store I frequent, to get directions. He blew in in about half the time it would normally take, in a really trashed BMW. Dog in the car, looked like a mix. No cage, no boxes, nada. I was in a pen, chasing down a rooster for him. Instead of saying hello, here I am, he came into the pen behind me and was just flat in my personal space, looming over me. So much for bio security, too. Startled the hecky-doo out of me.
I showed the rooster to him. He saw my hens. Waltzed into their pen. Wanted to/insisted upon buying some hens. I told him the rooster was for sale, the hens weren't. He kept going on about the hens. Okay, I DO NOT have hens to sell. WHAT exactly is your situation? Turns out he had one hen, all the others had died. So he wants one rooster? I told him that is not the best thing for your hen, you need more if you're going to have a rooster. Okay, so now he wants my hens again. NO, the hens are not for sale and I will NOT sell you a rooster either. Sorry, no business being done today.
Then he starts wheedling. Tells me he'll pay anything I want for the hens, even suggests $50.00 each. Tells me he has an outdoor show on the Discovery channel. Not sure what that had to do with anything......Okay, offers $100.00 per hen. No, the hens are NOT for sale. Meanwhile, he is a big guy looming over me and I am pretty twitchy by then. Both dogs are in the house, they're useless anyway. This guy was huge. Dogs would have loved him, as a source of treats, maybe.
I finally cowgirled up and told him there was absolutely no way I was selling him anything and he needed to leave now. After 15 minutes more of his BS, I got him in the car and he peeled out. I had a beer. (Okay, two beers.)
Since then, I never let people come to the house. I know longer put our phone number in CL ads, because I can ignore emails and block them if I have to.
It may have been coincidence, but 2 days later my pen doors were hanging open and it was a bloodbath. Had to have happened in the early morning hours, I was up pretty late that night. I suspect he came back with the dog, but have no proof. So I now lock the pens and meet 6 miles away.
A bit OT, but just last week I asked the manager of the local
TSC if I could sell some adult chickens from my truck in their parking lot. Not only did he say yes, but he is now interested in having a bigger event, like a Chicken Swap/ Meet and Greet!
