I know a lot of people don't care about this, but if you do care about where do you send your animals and feel responsible for the life you give them or send them to, stay with me.
I have hatched some japanese isabelle coturnix quail and I'm having a terrible experience so far selling the chicks.
Not asking how to know for sure, because unless you know the person or they give you a very good vibe and show obvious interest in good care, you're not going to know for sure.
But asking instead what's the best you can do? What can you do about it? What do you guys do about it?
I think this is a very interesting topic and a concern for a lot of people, so I hope we can come up with some ideas.
As for my story and what I am doing already:
I hatched birds as a project. I didn't know how many would hatch if any and I was advised to put a full incubator. So from that I had 18 chicks that I planned on selling. I had sold a rooster and a hen before and didn't get into this kind of trouble, I really wasn't expecting this to happen. It was just unthinkable for me that people would buy a very specific type of laying hen chick without even knowing how to care for chicks in general. I never thought someone would attemt to throw chicks in the backyard in the middle of winter. I mean chicks need a brooder it's like ABC so I obviosly wasn't expecting people who keep animals to not know this or don't care about it. Specially not after they've specifically go to look for them, pick them up and pay for them.
I have put all info in my add, including minimum care like having a brooder and a heat lamp, but yet almost everyone that writes to me hasn't even bothered reading the add, and 90% of people intend to just throw the chicks in a yard in the middle of winter.
I still feel so awful about the first person I sold the chicks to. He took 11 chicks. I thought it was obvious for pretty much everyone that chicks need a brooder and heat source yet I even put it in the ad. This man tho, didn't say anything about it and after he had given me the money and I had given him the birds he told me that last time he threw the chicks in the yard and that's that, like he wanted to do that again. I told the man we're in the middle of winter you can't do that, and besides they need the heat lamp and being indoors for at least 1 month and a half even if we were in a different season with better weather. This man overall gave me terrible vibes, I insisted a lot in explaining him and his wife the minimum care for the chicks and then went away.
Even after screening the buyers a lot most of people like, don't seem to know the care of a chick, or don't take it seriously, or they just don't care. I've been holding for the rest of the chicks until now, telling every potential buyer even if it's written in the add that they need a heat source. And they all have been terrible or write saying they don't have a heat lamp they'll tell me when they have one and never get back to me.
I don't want to send the chicks somewhere where they're gonna freeze to death or not be protected from predators. I don't know how to try to screen the buyers, as I'm doing it right now looks like I go to no buyers.
I live in a one bedroom appartment so I can't hold very long on the chicks. Most of them I need to sell by the time they're 1 week or 10 days old.
What do you do to screen your buyers? What advice do you have?
This is what I've been doing so far:
-I chose a laying spieces and that it's also very scarce in the area to incubate, so that I get more buyers and I expect them to take better care of the quail.
-I have waited 1 week at least to sell the chicks because they start being less vulnerable after this date, although if I had more energy space and resources, I'd have liked to wait longer.
-I have priced the chicks I believe on the pricier side, so that if someone buys them I expect them to take good care of them to protect their investment.
-I check buyers reviews if they have any (mostly they don't have any) and avoid the ones with bad reviews.
-I try to avoid people that give me a bad feeling. Although I've now agreed to sell the rest of the chicks (4 of them, I'm keeping 3) to a guy that gives me a bad feeling, since he said that he had quail but a predator eat them. Because I've asked him and he says he has a brooder and a lamp and that's the best I've found so far. Also he seems very bold. He overalls gives me a bad feeling but I don't know what else to do, the rest of the buyers seem even worse or don't really commit to the purchase.
I do care a lot about the chicks. I love every single one of them, and it breaks my heart to give them to someone who's not gonna take good care or at least decent care of them.
The only previous experience I have selling animals is selling a hen and a rooster, and I faced different problems, people not buying and a guy even stood me up after going with the hen far away from where I used to live, but as for taking care of the animals didn't have a problem.
I have hatched some japanese isabelle coturnix quail and I'm having a terrible experience so far selling the chicks.
Not asking how to know for sure, because unless you know the person or they give you a very good vibe and show obvious interest in good care, you're not going to know for sure.
But asking instead what's the best you can do? What can you do about it? What do you guys do about it?
I think this is a very interesting topic and a concern for a lot of people, so I hope we can come up with some ideas.
As for my story and what I am doing already:
I hatched birds as a project. I didn't know how many would hatch if any and I was advised to put a full incubator. So from that I had 18 chicks that I planned on selling. I had sold a rooster and a hen before and didn't get into this kind of trouble, I really wasn't expecting this to happen. It was just unthinkable for me that people would buy a very specific type of laying hen chick without even knowing how to care for chicks in general. I never thought someone would attemt to throw chicks in the backyard in the middle of winter. I mean chicks need a brooder it's like ABC so I obviosly wasn't expecting people who keep animals to not know this or don't care about it. Specially not after they've specifically go to look for them, pick them up and pay for them.
I have put all info in my add, including minimum care like having a brooder and a heat lamp, but yet almost everyone that writes to me hasn't even bothered reading the add, and 90% of people intend to just throw the chicks in a yard in the middle of winter.
I still feel so awful about the first person I sold the chicks to. He took 11 chicks. I thought it was obvious for pretty much everyone that chicks need a brooder and heat source yet I even put it in the ad. This man tho, didn't say anything about it and after he had given me the money and I had given him the birds he told me that last time he threw the chicks in the yard and that's that, like he wanted to do that again. I told the man we're in the middle of winter you can't do that, and besides they need the heat lamp and being indoors for at least 1 month and a half even if we were in a different season with better weather. This man overall gave me terrible vibes, I insisted a lot in explaining him and his wife the minimum care for the chicks and then went away.
Even after screening the buyers a lot most of people like, don't seem to know the care of a chick, or don't take it seriously, or they just don't care. I've been holding for the rest of the chicks until now, telling every potential buyer even if it's written in the add that they need a heat source. And they all have been terrible or write saying they don't have a heat lamp they'll tell me when they have one and never get back to me.
I don't want to send the chicks somewhere where they're gonna freeze to death or not be protected from predators. I don't know how to try to screen the buyers, as I'm doing it right now looks like I go to no buyers.
I live in a one bedroom appartment so I can't hold very long on the chicks. Most of them I need to sell by the time they're 1 week or 10 days old.
What do you do to screen your buyers? What advice do you have?
This is what I've been doing so far:
-I chose a laying spieces and that it's also very scarce in the area to incubate, so that I get more buyers and I expect them to take better care of the quail.
-I have waited 1 week at least to sell the chicks because they start being less vulnerable after this date, although if I had more energy space and resources, I'd have liked to wait longer.
-I have priced the chicks I believe on the pricier side, so that if someone buys them I expect them to take good care of them to protect their investment.
-I check buyers reviews if they have any (mostly they don't have any) and avoid the ones with bad reviews.
-I try to avoid people that give me a bad feeling. Although I've now agreed to sell the rest of the chicks (4 of them, I'm keeping 3) to a guy that gives me a bad feeling, since he said that he had quail but a predator eat them. Because I've asked him and he says he has a brooder and a lamp and that's the best I've found so far. Also he seems very bold. He overalls gives me a bad feeling but I don't know what else to do, the rest of the buyers seem even worse or don't really commit to the purchase.
I do care a lot about the chicks. I love every single one of them, and it breaks my heart to give them to someone who's not gonna take good care or at least decent care of them.
The only previous experience I have selling animals is selling a hen and a rooster, and I faced different problems, people not buying and a guy even stood me up after going with the hen far away from where I used to live, but as for taking care of the animals didn't have a problem.
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