Fabulously Feathered Silkies?

[Kiki]

Just to clear the record here, Dawne makes it sound like I have a gang of people that go around posting about her, & I assure you, that is not the case. After she tried to scam me, she also went around & tried to scam several other well known breeders & that was when we decided to pass her name around privately to warn other breeders. The whole thing would have dropped there except then she started stalking me & stealing pictures of my birds, using them on Craig's List & claiming they were her birds. Even when I posted proof they were my birds, she still claimed I was lying, but of course that's what she always does. Even after that I let it go until a couple of years ago when I started getting calls from people that had bought sick birds from her. They called me because Dawne was telling them the birds were from my lines & when she wouldn't help them they turned to me. Unfortunately, there wasn't anything I could do at that point but it has snowballed from there. Her victims have posted screen shots, medical reports, etc. as proof positive but she just continues to deny, deny, deny. As for this thread, I didn't even know about it until I was notified by one of the people Dawne scammed that there was another victim posting on this site so I decided to come on here & comment. The rest of the people on here posting problems with Dawne weren't new members & I didn't "recruit" any of them to come on & post. As for Dawne saying that people should contact her with their problems - actually, from all the posts I've read, people do try & contact her but she either doesn't return calls, or she starts bullying them & makes them think that they did something wrong. A couple of people said she went totally psycho on them & they were afraid to report her. For a couple that she couldn't bully, she replaced their chicks & those just died too so they gave up. Her only defense, time after time, is that everyone is lying about her & that SHE is the victim. And since she brought up the scam GoFundMe - yes, it was a complete fraud. She was evicted & all her belongings had been moved the day before the fire so she lost nothing! Yet she came onto several FB chicken sites & told everyone that she had lost everything, including over 300 chickens! Several people sent money but once she was found out, she was booted by admins from most of the FB chicken sites & the fund was closed down. A friend of the landlord was the one investigating the whole thing & he is the one who contacted me when he saw my first post about her scamming me. He gave me a lot of info about some of her past scams & told me she's been doing this for awhile.

I see this deny, deny , deny...blame someone else...'no one contacted me' BS too.

Thank goodness I don't deal with silkies.

 

[Kiki]

Oh, I believe you. I was just "entertaining" the possibility of fake accounts to see what evidence she had. I don't know you or any of the other posters, and I think she assumes we are in cahoots, somehow. I don't have a Facebook account or anything, either. I don't belong to any other social-type sites other than BYC. I'm always open-minded about these things, and look for evidence. I'm going to do more research...

The OP of this thread...I remember talking to him/her when get first got scammed with buying sick babies.

 

[country]

I see this deny, deny , deny...blame someone else...'no one contacted me' BS too.

Thank goodness I don't deal with silkies.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Two words: court records. Nuff said. These are very telling... along with anecdotal evidence and UCD reports....

 

[Fuzzyheadgirls]

What do you have to say about these people here...that all bought sick birds from you?

Ooh... This just got real. That doesn't explain all of the negative reviews, though. Did you have your birds tested to counter accusations? I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt, but the odds are not in your favor given what I've read - not just from Sherri; from several people.

Yes I did. . I wanted to know for myself what UC Davis would show in an unscheduled report on a comparative aged speciem from my flock. The last health monitoring report was dated from Dec. That was a 2 month span I wasn't comfortable excepting with the situation at hand. With the minimal information I had been presented with I had a big decision to make and U needed the most complete accurate I could get in order to make the correct one based solely on facts.
The necropsy report confirmed the Dec report was still accurate with exception to the large amount of coccida identified. I believe the results I received allowed me to make the decision I have. I stand by my comments and decision..

 

[Fuzzyheadgirls]

I did. One joined 9/2018, one 9/2008, one 1/2019, one 2/2019. Not very convincing argument.

I'm sorry I haven't read anything from someone here since 2008. Can you direct me?

 

[Fuzzyheadgirls]

Now, I would be willing to entertain the idea that some of the posts might be "fake," but not all, that's for sure.

Of course not all. Complaints can be a unfortunate but useful tool to learn from. Honestly 4 unresolved complaints while not the best situation aren't that many. I do the best I can to correct anyone's complaint. Even the current one bringing us here. I can't do more that that.

 

[country]

Of course not all. Complaints can be a unfortunate but useful tool to learn from. Honestly 4 unresolved complaints while not the best situation aren't that many. I do the best I can to correct anyone's complaint. Even the current one bringing us here. I can't do more that that.

Whoa! I think you need to count again. Way more than 4 unresolved complaints - that's just the complaints on here. One of the people you scammed says on another post that she has collected around 50. I haven't seen all of those but there are at least 4 posts on the Good Egg Bad Egg site just from other breeders & at least 10 others from different people. If complaints are your "learning tool" then maybe it's about time you started contacting all the people that posted & refunded their money. That would be a good start.

 

[country]

Yes I did. . I wanted to know for myself what UC Davis would show in an unscheduled report on a comparative aged speciem from my flock. The last health monitoring report was dated from Dec. That was a 2 month span I wasn't comfortable excepting with the situation at hand. With the minimal information I had been presented with I had a big decision to make and U needed the most complete accurate I could get in order to make the correct one based solely on facts.
The necropsy report confirmed the Dec report was still accurate with exception to the large amount of coccida identified. I believe the results I received allowed me to make the decision I have. I stand by my comments and decision..

The necropsy report was done on a chick that had gone into the incubator after the first UCD report & was no doubt kept away from your diseased birds until you took it in for testing. Sorry, but that proves nothing. Especially since chicks you recently sold all died within 3 days of their purchase.

 

[Kiki]

I'm sorry I haven't read anything from someone here since 2008. Can you direct me?

I've quoted the exact posts from this thread already once.
Go back to page one of this thread and read through. Its only 7 pages long=a quick read.