He sold my chicks while I was out of town... :*(

[cluckcluck42]

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oh you're bad! LOL!

And I'm not so mad about him selling three of them anymore, i would have got over that pretty darn quick, I did say it would be okay to sell three, I just assumed he had remembered our discussion the day before about how I was going to sell chicks from next hatch and how these chicks were not going anywhere... but I guess his mind may have been elsewhere

lol

I have learned to repeat, repeat, repeat when it comes to my hunny.

 

[onthespot]

What kind was the one with the feathered legs? What was special about that chick? Just being nosey here.

'Nother suggestion, two cages. One for "sellers" and one for "keepers" to make it fiance-proof. LOL

Maybe someone here can send you some replacement eggs if the chick was a hard to replace one.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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I was just thinking this too. That's how I like to think when things go wrong, there MUST be a purpose for it! lol. I Sometimes things happen for a reason and sometimes things just happen.

That is how I live my life every day. If I didn't, I would be a nut case. lol

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Most of the time if I have someone coming to look at and get birds, I put the ones available in separate cages/coops/tractors from those that have birds I want to keep. Makes it a lot easier while they are here, but it does require rearranging as I usually have the birds separated differently: youngsters based upon age or breeding, adults in preeding pens. I often include youngsters that are not yet mature in the breeding pens to spread the birds out and keep them socialized within a flock.

 

[asher]

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I was just thinking this too. That's how I like to think when things go wrong, there MUST be a purpose for it! lol. I don't blame the kids at all, from what I understood the kid and the dad were picking out chicks together so DF thought he could trust the guy to not take the chick. Live and learn, DF will definitely never ever do anything like this again. I dunno, it's just that I thought once he knew he took an off limit chick he would be okay about us coming to get it. What can you do, if he doesnt call back, he doesnt call back.

On the flip side you are so right, my possible 4 new hens would more than make up for it AND I definitely would not have thought of getting more had this not happened. Sometimes things happen for a reason and sometimes things just happen.

My husband has done something similar, but not regarding animals. He knows better than to do ANYTHING with my animals. The one time we had someone come get chicks when I wasn't here, I had them boxed up and ready to go before I left!

HOWEVER, I dress my kids very nice, IMO. My younger three are almost always in all Gymboree and Gap, my older two almost all Abercrombie, Gap, etc. Stuff that I pay very good money for. I go through their clothes on a regular basis and I will donate bags to goodwill, give stuff to people that I know and keep a few select things that I know will sell very well and put them on eBay. So...one day, I told hubby that I'd gone through the kids clothes and did any of his friends need clothes for their kids or were they in specific sizes? Hubby says I dunno. I'll ask them. We see where this is going, right? Yeah...he doesn't take the Goodwill bag or the bags for his friends/my friends. He takes the GOOD bag and gives it to his friend, still not even knowing if they can use them (b/c I could get over that, if so. Clothes are clothes, money is money, friendship and helping friends comes first.) GRRR! AND because he didn't learn then, some lady came over for some things for freecycle and I had specifically showed him the 5 bags of clothes to give her...guess what else he gave her? Yup...the good stuff!

Again, cannot even compare to a living, breathing thing, but...yeah...pure frustration! Now, I will specifically mark bags with freecycle or his friends or my friends names on it, etc. and you'd better believe that I HIDE my eBay bags! haha A lady actually came over from freecycle the other day and I had forgotten to tell him about it and forgotten to leave it on the porch and he wouldn't give her anything because he wasn't sure what was hers and didn't want to get in trouble.

At least he learned!

All of that ramble to say...maybe some colored zip ties would be a good thing, if DF wants to help in the selling? A specific color for sell and another for keep...and then before the potential buyer gets there, put the sell ones in a tote by themselves so that they cannot even look at the ones that are not for sale? (A good idea to prevent cross contamination/germs, anyway, IMO.)

 

[onthespot]

colored zip ties... PPphhhhfffftttt!!! It's MEN we're talking here! you would need to write KEEP on the bag with black shoe polish for them to notice.

 

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

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this would work but for us men you would need to hang a sign on them one that says sell and the other that says keep this way he would not get them mixed up at all.

 

[kuntrygirl]

asher - Chicken Enabler Extraordinaire

Your story reminds me of a "free-cylce" story. I belong to our local free cycle group where we recycle items. Well, there was an item that I had contacted the poster about and she said that I was the first person to contact her, so I could come and pick up the item. The item was a George Foreman grill. The lady had given me her address and we had set up a pick up day and time. On the day of the pick up, I emailed her to confirm that she would be home. Well, lo and behold, she emailed me back apologizing because her HUSBAND and given the George Foreman grill away to the WRONG PERSON. They had several items that they were getting rid of and her Husband gave away the wrong items to the wrong person. I was speechless but then again, what can you do. I think he got a nice chewing out. Men.......go figure.

 

[ninny]

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Oh my

. I can not even begin to imagine someone having sold one of my chickens while I was away, let alone one of my horses!

Oh my gosh, seriously, that is just terrible I am so sorry for you catwalk, that is really harsh. Your mother would just do things like that on purpose?

My mom pulled that on me too. Only it was my goat instead. She didnt want him around anymore even though she had nothing to do with him. I found out later the people who bought him sent him to be turned into dog food!!

I loved that goat. He walked on a leash and everything. Id go read in the pasture and he'd lay down with his head in my lap. My sweet pippin. He was a nubain buck too. Bad mom

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

Keeping fingers crossed for you! Good luck!