Fed Up with TSC Chicks

[Moonkit]

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Actually.. many in the "dog world" recommend rescuing from shelters. "Don't breed or buy while shelter pets die" and all that.

Even though that's not really the case with chickens.. its not as easy to find a reputable breeder for a favored breed in all areas like it is with dogs.

 

[Kitt]

ginger c. :

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just wanted you to know how great i think that is, not too many folks would bother, those 2 chicks are very lucky!

Thank you Ginger, but i'm the lucky one..they are so cute and make me smile every time I see them. I just with i could find out what one of them are...​

 

[Arielle]

I would be very frustrated with TSC. I spent hours and hours studying the different breeds of chickens to pick the ones best suited for my needs and then not have them lableled properly in the bins! Shame on TSC. They seems to be a growing business with 2 more going in west of Worcester. From all you have written I have crossed them off my TODO list!. I personally frequently a Mom-and-Pop type feed store when the bins are labeled correctly. THey do pre-sell birds with a sign up sheet, so they go quickly and you know what is coming in months in advance. I get a call at 11:30 am that they are in and I'm there at 12 !!!

The only way to change the situation is to complain to the manager of the store. THe employees are cheap labor often; at least at my store a person filling in will copt to not knowing chickens and not try to buffalo ppl.

 

[Anianna]

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There is no "the book". She didn't know what she was talking about, but at least it was an effective method of turning people away.

For those unfamiliar, the minimum six laws are known as Easter gift laws. They were established to keep people from impulse buying adorable little chicks as Easter gifts that would most likely be abandoned as they grew into chickens.

 

[Lynette]

I never ask them questions about the chicks. I already know everything I need to know about how to care for them. I already thought I knew more than they did anyway. That is a good idea to take a catalog to compare the chicks.

 

[jimz1]

If everyone that wants chicks would buy them from a reputable hatchery,maybe tsc wouldn't be selling things they know nothing about!

 

[girliegirl940]

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Where do you go? I am in auburn!

 

[Avalon1984]

Just had the same thing happen to me the other day! Now that there is heavy duty cattle guard around all bins I had to have some dude help me get the chicks I wanted. The first one he gave me had pasty butt. Told him what to do and he called his manager to “take care of the chick”. I offered to take it off their hands to save it but got a “no, we don’t do that” as an answer. Then I found an EE chick in the bin with the RIR, Red Sex link pullets and grabbed it, went to the bin with the Barred Rocks and other pullets just to find out that a week later, the 2 yellow chicks I got are double the size of my others. Would they seriously stick Cornish crosses in there even though they had their own labeled bin? It would have never even occurred to me if there wouldn’t have been dozens of other yellow chicks in there. I just figured they were Buff Orphingtons. I’d hate to have them processed but of they are truly Cornish crosses I may not have another choice. Well, that will teach me for good. I will never buy chicks from there again. The way they treat those chicks is atrocious. I’d rather incubate myself or buy from local farmers.