Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[tazcat70]

So got home and had fun washing skunky dogs.  but nothing is going to put a damper on my mood today. 
I wish everyone else had had a good day because I know how annoying cheerful people are when you are having a bad day.

I got a call from the fellow I am meeting on Thursday to get my new Dorking Roos.  He is a guy who's been really into Dorkings for like 50 years and has been collecting them and trying to save them from all over the east coast for many years.  He's a really enthusiastic guy who I love talking to so just the call would have made my day.  But he also informed me that in addition to the two roos he's bringing me, he's also wanting to know my incubator size so he can bring me enough eggs to fill it up from his two best pens!!!  and he told me once they're grown he'd help pick the ones good enough to go forward with.

His colors are not the standard dorking APA SOP colors.  He's trying to collect and save some of the non-standard ones.  He has seen alot of the other guys into heritage Chickens die off and their familys didn't necessarily know what they had or who to contact to dispense of their flocks in the best way. Some flocks that took decades to create that have just gone to the meat processor and He has found out months afterwards that someone is gone and noone knows what happened to their chickens. And he has seen dorkings go from a popular breed to pretty rare and fears the loss of the genetics. So he says he's being a realist and admitting that we never know what could happen and wants to make sure his genetics are not all in one place.  So he's giving me eggs from his Slate-reds and a color called "Pyle" that I had to look up but when I did, I was thrilled!  so I am getting eggs and seems like a mentor as well!

Wonderful!!!! I did not even know that Dorkings came in those colors.

 

[FeyRaine]

So got home and had fun washing skunky dogs. but nothing is going to put a damper on my mood today.
I wish everyone else had had a good day because I know how annoying cheerful people are when you are having a bad day.

I got a call from the fellow I am meeting on Thursday to get my new Dorking Roos. He is a guy who's been really into Dorkings for like 50 years and has been collecting them and trying to save them from all over the east coast for many years. He's a really enthusiastic guy who I love talking to so just the call would have made my day. But he also informed me that in addition to the two roos he's bringing me, he's also wanting to know my incubator size so he can bring me enough eggs to fill it up from his two best pens!!! and he told me once they're grown he'd help pick the ones good enough to go forward with.

His colors are not the standard dorking APA SOP colors. He's trying to collect and save some of the non-standard ones. He has seen alot of the other guys into heritage Chickens die off and their familys didn't necessarily know what they had or who to contact to dispense of their flocks in the best way. Some flocks that took decades to create that have just gone to the meat processor and He has found out months afterwards that someone is gone and noone knows what happened to their chickens. And he has seen dorkings go from a popular breed to pretty rare and fears the loss of the genetics. So he says he's being a realist and admitting that we never know what could happen and wants to make sure his genetics are not all in one place. So he's giving me eggs from his Slate-reds and a color called "Pyle" that I had to look up but when I did, I was thrilled! so I am getting eggs and seems like a mentor as well!

That is fantastic! I'm sure you'll post lots of pics. so we can all see the wonderful rare genetics that are going to be entrusted to you. Very best of luck on your hatch rate etc. What a great adventure for you

 

[KYTinpusher]

PP received from Rocky Maley. Cleared to swap again!

 

[crfarm]

received PP from bradselig, can he be cleared??? thanks!

 

[babymakes6]

Okay, I need some advice- I will not mention any names, but I would like to know if anyone feels I did the wrong thing. Please be honest!
Someone lost their Legbar roo the other day. I have several extras, so I offered one of my oldest ones for free if they paid shipping. They said they would and could I send it today because they have off work tomorrow. They also wanted me to wait until almost closing time for the PO so he would not be sitting in the box any longer than necessary, which I did.
I went out to choose from my 3 oldest roos, and I chose the nicest one-he has the least amount of red on him, and he has a nice, straight comb. Our PO closes at 5, so it was after 4 till I went and got him. I checked him over well to be sure he was in good shape, and noticed he had mites on his vent so I smeared Nustock on his vent and under his wings (I have been battling mites since I got Vanilla Ice last fall, but I have 30 birds in my flock so it has been difficult to get rid of them). I barely had time to get my label printed and get to the PO, so I didn't have time to email this person and let them know about the mites. If I could have sent him tomorrow, I would have just waited to hear back, but this person apparently has to work Wed. so I didn't want to wait and mess up their schedule, so I sent him. I then sent them an email to let them know about the mites, figuring that a single bird in quarantine shouldn't be too difficult to eliminate mites from. Now this person is upset at me for sending him and wants to either kill him or send him back. I don't want him to be killed-he is too nice for that, but I have two other roos the same age and a couple more growing out, so I don't really want him back either. I am already out the box and the $18 to send him, so I don't want to lose any more money on one bird.
What would you do about this?
If it happened to you, would you want to accept a free, nice, rare bird that was very difficult to find that had mites, or would you not want anything like that near your birds (if it was quarantined, it would not be anywhere near your birds, anyway).

Please be honest-I want to know what everyone else thinks. I, myself, would not have a problem with it, because if it was quarantined and I still couldn't get rid of the mites, I would kill it-but I WOULD NOT kill it without even trying to eliminate them.

 

[babymakes6]

received PP from bradselig, can he be cleared??? thanks!

cleared!

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

Okay, I need some advice- I will not mention any names, but I would like to know if anyone feels I did the wrong thing. Please be honest!
Someone lost their Legbar roo the other day. I have several extras, so I offered one of my oldest ones for free if they paid shipping. They said they would and could I send it today because they have off work tomorrow. They also wanted me to wait until almost closing time for the PO so he would not be sitting in the box any longer than necessary, which I did.
I went out to choose from my 3 oldest roos, and I chose the nicest one-he has the least amount of red on him, and he has a nice, straight comb. Our PO closes at 5, so it was after 4 till I went and got him. I checked him over well to be sure he was in good shape, and noticed he had mites on his vent so I smeared Nustock on his vent and under his wings (I have been battling mites since I got Vanilla Ice last fall, but I have 30 birds in my flock so it has been difficult to get rid of them). I barely had time to get my label printed and get to the PO, so I didn't have time to email this person and let them know about the mites. If I could have sent him tomorrow, I would have just waited to hear back, but this person apparently has to work Wed. so I didn't want to wait and mess up their schedule, so I sent him. I then sent them an email to let them know about the mites, figuring that a single bird in quarantine shouldn't be too difficult to eliminate mites from. Now this person is upset at me for sending him and wants to either kill him or send him back. I don't want him to be killed-he is too nice for that, but I have two other roos the same age and a couple more growing out, so I don't really want him back either. I am already out the box and the $18 to send him, so I don't want to lose any more money on one bird.
What would you do about this?
If it happened to you, would you want to accept a free, nice, rare bird that was very difficult to find that had mites, or would you not want anything like that near your birds (if it was quarantined, it would not be anywhere near your birds, anyway).

Please be honest-I want to know what everyone else thinks. I, myself, would not have a problem with it, because if it was quarantined and I still couldn't get rid of the mites, I would kill it-but I WOULD NOT kill it without even trying to eliminate them.

Sounds like you did a good deed out of the kindness of your heart.... let them handle it however they see fit.... jeesh! it is only mites... it is not hard to treat mites. JMHO

 

[Dahlisgrams]

Quote: My sentiments exactly. It was very kind of you to send him!

 

[RoyalT]

I'd wash the bird and quarantine until it was clean. How hard is that?? For a free bird... Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth. You didn't do anything wrong, babymakes6

 

[flocksalot]

I wouldn't complain over something as simple as mites. I had a guy drop off four hens that had a horrible case of scaley leg mite. I had never seen it in person before, only in pictures, but I knew right away what it was and what to do. Those hens are sweetie pies and couldn't be happier. They were free too! I love free and would take a Legbar in a heartbeat. I'm supposed to be watching the swap for them.