I sold some chickens HELP - some died! Best way to package when sold?

[TexasVet]

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We've had "feels like" temps of well over 100 degrees here for several months. I get overheated going out to feed and water my birds if I'm wearing anything other than 100% cotton. Can't imagine how hot it would be for multiple chickens shut up in a box.

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.CountryChickens.com

 

[shay20]

It can get pretty bad.
If use a box, i would cut a lot of holes i mean make it look like a crate.

 

[jjthink]

Augghhhhhh!!!!!!Must be my week to channel chickens, give them voice and shout from the rooftops on their behalf. This is yet another incredibly disturbing post. I wish I hadn't seen this post. I can't even begin to find the right words. I'm sorry but rubber banding their feet and putting them in plastic bags (!!!!! these are not dead chickens on the shelves of Shop-Rite, head out of the bag or not), then in a box in 100 degree heat, then having to chase and catch them again and again as they panic in that heat is just so clearly wrong-headed that I can't fathom how someone with chickens could not intuitively know this. STRESS. One must think about stress, the heat etc.[/i]

That kind of heat is not the time to add more stress - it's teh time to remove ALL stressors. Please - please - learn more about these thinking, feeling beings before any more have to die from not understanding their needs. While you likely didn't mean to, this type of handling is truly nothing short of cruel. If I ever rubberbanded my birds feet and stuck them in a plastic bag and then in a box in 100 degree heat they would have heart attacks lickety split. I would no sooner do that than I would cut my own arm off. Tomorrow the fate of 20 more hens is in your hands. Please radically alter how they are handled. I am sorry to be so direct here - I just could not find any way to sugar coat this.
JJ

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Please find appropriate means to transport your chickens.
I have a customer that buys my extra roos and when he showed up the first time with a tiny crate to cram 6 roosters in --- I said 'No go, they won't leave here like that'. I don't have an issue that the boys were going to be butchered and eaten right away, but there is no reason to treat them anway but nice til time to do the deed.
We have a language problem, but he says 'yes, happy roosters taste better then unhappy roosters'.

Lisa

 

[maf2008]

I did I did!

And I found some "tomato boxes" with holes and a stron top at the farmers market. the next time someone shows up with a "flimsey paper box" I will offer to pack their chickens in one of my boxes for an additional $5...... They should be responsible to ahve the correct transportation.

I do like letting people choose thier own birds... Its more fun that way!
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[Camelot Farms]

Good for you!... and VERY good for your birds

 

[matthew1985]

they make crate wit cokick tops jus for transporting chickens

 

[redhen]

Why..ooh why, did i open this thread!?....

 

[ranchhand]

Sounds like maf2008 has learned a better way, and I have to admit I am tremendously relieved!

I always ask/tell people about transport methods when they call about any chickens. Even if they have plans for the stewpot, they will treat that animal with respect or that animal never leaves my property with them.

The new boxes sound like a good option, but chasing them around right before boxing is a recipe for disaster. The stress level alone may kill them, not just the heat.

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

This does sound like a classic case of "didn't know any better" but I personally never let the customer pick their birds. Probably because I only sell certain birds. I set those birds aside for them and they can view them when they arrive. Then if they decide to purchase we put them into their carrier.
I have only had one incident where a woman and her two daughters just showed up to buy chicks from me. I was not a happy camper and I let it be known, for biosecurity reasons I do NOT allow people near my coop or handle or touch any birds. You touch it, it's going home with you!