do I have the right to be upset?

[Attack Chicken]

Go ahead try hatching the duck eggs. Just in the end tell her none developed or hatched

Couple weeks later "Oh I bought some cute duckling for my kids off Craigslist (or something)" She wont ever know

I hatch eggs for friends all the time FREE and I'm not even keeping any of the chicks 11 Ameraucana eggs going into lockdown next week for a friend.

 

[Caat]

return the eggs to her asap, let her know that you don't want to hatch duck eggs but thank you for thinking of you. Then you can provide her with info on where to get an incubator and whatever else she needs!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

At this point she is definitely trying to take advantage of you. Be firm yet polite and set those boundaries!


Oh and if it was me no way she'd get half my babies.

 

[Kansaseq]

I would just be honest with her. Say something like, "I'm confused. I thought this was an even exchange of eggs for eggs?" If she persists, give her half the chicks and try to avoid her in the future. If she tries to 'give' you more eggs, tell her you charge $x for hatching. Or you could tell her it's just too hard giving them up, so you won't be hatching for other people anymore.

 

[Mattemma]

I would point out the exchange of eggs for eggs. I see she wants you to hatch duck eggs. Seems like you do all this work for 21 days for free. She needs to pay or buy a bator.Maybe give her the chicks if she makes a fuss,but would tell her " I thought all the chicks were MINE,but whatever ever here you go...half the chicks."

My bator would be broke for her use. A polite hello here and there,but I would otherwise ignore the neighbor.

 

[heather454ss]

OK half of my babies are gone today to my neighbors. I also talked with her and told her that she never stated that she wanted half of the chicks. well lets just say we talked things over and I am still going to be incubating her eggs but I get 75% of the chicks that hatch and i get to pick them. So i guess you can say things work out good. I will be putting 28 more of her eggs in the incubator tomorrow.

Thanks again to everyone who supported me and listened to me complain. lol

 

[Attack Chicken]

Glad everything worked out for you

 

[SunnyCalifornia]

Glad it all worked out.

 

[Pinky]

That's great you worked it all out.

 

[Stevenson]

Glad things worked out. Sometimes people just aren't on the same wavelength! What she did wasn't right in my book.

A couple of years ago one of my neighbors found out that I liked to deer hunt. I was new to the area and didn't have a place to hunt, so he offered to let me hunt in his woods behind his house (I did not ask). I thought this was outstanding since it was so close to my house, but decided to only bow hunt on the property (since it was fairly close to their house). He told me to let him know when I was interested in hunting. I called him up a couple of weeks later and asked him if it would be ok and he said it would, but that he wanted to make sure his kids would be out of the woods....no problem....I waited til he got home and got ready to hunt. When I pulled in, he met me and said "So, how are we going to do this?" I didn't know what he meant, so I asked. He said, "How do you want to split the meat when you get one?".....uh....that's not how it works! I would have had to spend the time hunting, butcher the deer myself and give him half? I just said that would be fine...and hunted that day, but didn't shoot anything....and never went on his property again. I would have gladly given him some of the meat if I killed one, but to have it expected of me is completely different when I didn't ask to hunt on his property to begin with! Sometimes it takes stuff like this to find out who a person is.