I musta lost my mind at Tractor Supply.....

[havery]

Oh my goodness! I am trying so hard to not laugh out loud or shake too hard because I've got a weak chick in my shirt sitting on top of my pregnant belly I'm trying to keep warm and calm. Compound this freaking hilarious story with my baby bump shaking from the contained laughter and I think I'm gonna give this poor chick a heart attack!

 

[song of joy]

Fantastic story! Thanks for sharing. I needed a good laugh!

I don't even dare to go into TSC alone this time of year, for fear of coming home with chicks I don't need!

 

[ChickenLegs13]

Glad yall like my post! Everything I wrote was true and that's exactly how it happened.
Actually I had been considering raising a few meat birds for several years now but was too busy with my other poultry endeavours using birds that I already owned. I'm a small time chicken egg & quail meat peddler and that occupies most of my time & resources.

I noticed one thing since I bought chicks 40 years ago: back in the goodle days the feed stores didn't keep chicks in spacious water troughs with wood shavings. They kept them packed wall to wall in 6 tiered battery cages, like a modern Quail Jail. If you bought several chicks they put them in a paper bag, folded the top over, poked a few holes in it with a pencil and said there ya go. They didn't have fancy little speciality boxes with coupons, advertisments and instructions & safety warnings printed on the side. I've never owned any barnyard animals that came with instructions and safety warnings. If they would have had instructions they probably would have said: "Welcome to your new cow. For best results feed plenty of green grass & pond water daily. Don't forget to wash your hands before supper."

Anyway, I dumped the new chicks in with my ten 2 week old Black Copper Marans. Big difference between my BCM and Cornish X. I weighed them, both breeds are same age & weighed the same, 4-6 oz but the BCM actually look like small chickens and the Cornish look like tennis balls with big orange feet. If I sneak up and bang on the side of the cage the BCM flush like a covey of quail, the Cornish just lay there and look at me like "Huh? What's up dude?" Their little fat round faces look like they're always happy & smiling. Really mellow & docile birds.
The RIR are much smaller @ 2-1/2 oz but they're only 3-4 days old. That's a tad bigger than the RIR chicks I produce from my own hens. That's cool though, I breed for egg size, not carcass size. I'm sure if any are pullets they'll lay nice eggs. I lost one of the RIR. He was weak & sluggish and lasted a little less than 24 hours. It's dissappointing when a chick dies, even more so since it's one I paid for. Oh well, that's the way it goes in the chicken world.

 

[Americano Blue]

Awesome story!

 

[RogerTheChicken]

Same here Went into tsc, I usually buy from attwoods, and they had polish so I got them
So now I have
109 chickens
4 turkeys
4 ducks
2 geese
2 guineas
Right now I am raising 46 chicks
I have made 3 trips to attwoods and 1 trip to tsc in the past 2 weeks
Guess you could say I am chicken obsessed

 

[PapaChaz]

great story and great follow up! had us laughing, as I had to call the wife in and read it to her. You could submit that somewhere and get it published and maybe make a few bucks on it. That way, you'd have some extra cash to go buy more chicks..........


bahahahaha

 

[Halloweengirl13]

Lol my boyfriend hardly blinks when my roommate and me come home from tractor supply, he just sighs and asks me how many this time? A few times we have snuck them into the brooder, but he's caught on pretty quick, two girls + tractor supply chick days = bouncy balls of cuteness especially if there are ducks.

 

[nordicacres]

Nice job, man. Too funny!

 

[Folly's place]

Loved the story; second the idea of sending it for publication. Thanks for the laughs! Mary

 

[ChickenLegs13]

Same here Went into tsc, I usually buy from attwoods, and they had polish so I got them
So now I have
109 chickens
4 turkeys
4 ducks
2 geese
2 guineas
Right now I am raising 46 chicks
I have made 3 trips to attwoods and 1 trip to tsc in the past 2 weeks
Guess you could say I am chicken obsessed

Guess I could say I'm glad I don't have your feed bill. My little backyard setup ate a ton of game starter and a half ton of layer last year. And I'm set up to double my bird capacity this year.
Too bad you don't live closer, you need another duck and I have 1 that needs to go.