Dumped ducklings! *Now w/PICS!!! pg 2*

[cyanne]

I wish our feedstores would put a restriction on buying chicks and ducks like that!

What I find really stupid is that the feedstore does not educate people on what supplies people need to raise them. It would be in their best interest because they would make more money selling stuff like shavings, feeders, waterers, and heat lamps with each purchase. They should be posting some sort of care sheet for baby ducks and chicks that lists the basic necessities OR even putting together a kit of basic supplies and keeping it in or near the chick room to sell with the chicks. That's what most pet stores do and it not only helps the welfare of the animals, but it is good for business as well.

 

[Fancie]

Quote:
1.) It's a dollar...
2.) To ask if your customer know how to care for the chicks can be seen as rude, or be-littling... can't do that! People are just way to easily offended
3.) There is a fear of losing a customer for-ever.

just my 2 cents.


The thing to do is raise the price up... to sell a chick for $3 or $5 is like saying they are worthless.... If you sold them for $10 or $15... People would think twice.

 

[cyanne]

Quote:
1.) It's a dollar...
2.) To ask if your customer know how to care for the chicks can be seen as rude, or be-littling... can't do that! People are just way to easily offended
3.) There is a fear of losing a customer for-ever.

just my 2 cents.


The thing to do is raise the price up... to sell a chick for $3 or $5 is like saying they are worthless.... If you sold them for $10 or $15... People would think twice.

See, I just don't get it, though because pet stores have care sheets even for the fish and lizards and they sell 'starter kits' for each of them so that the person doesn't even have to walk around the store to pick out the basic stuff if they don't want to. Obviously this is not just out of the goodness of their heart, they know it means they make more money off of the purchase that way.

It would seem like the feed store people would be smart enough to realize that they could either make $3 from one chick OR make that money PLUS the cost of a heat lamp, bag of shavings, bag of chick starter, feeder, waterer and a couple extra chicks to keep the first one company. Oh, and that is just the short term. In the long run, they stand to make even more because those chicks stand a better chance of surviving and the people would need to come back to buy more feed and supplies. DUH!

Just seems like smart business to me, and it means you are able to treat the animals better too. Win-win.

 

[Fancie]

but pet stores in themselves are all about impulse buying..... The never question your ability to care for them. I always wanted to know how many animals they sell make it past the first year... I know most of the fish don't, they probably don't make it past a month or so.


anyway

 

[Wifezilla]

It would seem like the feed store people would be smart enough to realize that they could either make $3 from one chick OR make that money PLUS the cost of a heat lamp, bag of shavings, bag of chick starter, feeder, waterer and a couple extra chicks to keep the first one company. Oh, and that is just the short term. In the long run, they stand to make even more because those chicks stand a better chance of surviving and the people would need to come back to buy more feed and supplies. DUH!

Same thought process I had when visiting "old school" feed stores where, if you don't look and act like a person born in to ranching, they treat you like you have a second head.​

 

[FarmerDenise]

The feed stores in my area check on people they think might not know how to raise chicks. A simple question like: "Have you raised chicks before?" or "Do you know how to raise chicks" or "Do you need anything else, feed, waterer or shavings?" They then observe the person as they answer. Sometimes they ask another question or make a suggestion in order to help figure out if the person really knows how to raise chicks. They also don't sell just one chick unless you can really convince them, like you got another day old chick, or you're putting it under a broody with other chicks.
Since they know me, I can get just one chick. But someone else would be told that they don't sell single chicks, because chickens need to be in a flock and don't do well by themselves.

 

[cyanne]

As promised, here are some pics of the rescued ducklings enjoying bathtime!

 

[cyanne]

Oh, and they have already earned their keep! The same day I found these, I had picked up a trio of self-blue muscovies from a breeder. The fancy 'scovies were scared half to death by the move to a new home and were refusing to eat or drink even though they had been in hot cars all day back and forth. I was really worried that they wouldn't make it.

Well, normally the quarantine rule is set in stone at my place, but I took a chance and put the rescued ducklings in with the 'scovies since they had obviously been handled much more and had hearty appetites. When the first Pekin baby lumbered over and crashed into them they seemed APPALLED, but within less than a minute they were up and following the rest of the group to eat and drink and have been inseparable since!

Here are some bonus pics of my new 'scovie babies...they are beautiful but I will have my work cut out for me taming them!

 

[jbowyer01]

My goodness! I can see why people buy them, they are adorable! But I could never, ever just dump them somewhere! I'm glad you rescued them.

 

[katrinag]

They are some very cute babies.