If a person cannot spell, would you still sell birds to them??

[Linn Bee]

Hey, it is worth asking for the roo for free. Either you say yes or you say no. It is no biggie for him.

I would not worry about the spelling. Many wonderful people are not well-educated and many well-educated people are skipping their spelling skills in favor of texting shorthand.
It is the purpose he wants your roo that would determine whether or not I would deal with him.

He sounds a bit down on his luck at the moment. And sounds to me as if he would rather have your rooster for Sunday dinner than for breeding. Can he discuss his brother's chickens with a basic knowledge of his chickens and his chicken set-ups?

In the end, it is your choice to cull the bird and eat him yourself, hold him a while longer, gift him away, or take less money for him.

Love, Linn B (aka Smart Red) * * * Nesting with 5 Australorp and 5 Lt. Brahma hens plus 'The Count of Monte Cristo' - or Monte, for short - one beautiful, well-behaved, hard-working, Australorp rooster, in south-est, central-est Wisconsin.

 

[Tanichca]

Yah, but what if I take the chance and I sell the bird to someone who IS a flake? What if he doesn't know that the Dutch need petroleum jelly during the winter to keep frostbite off their combs? What if he doesn't know that they need space to run and fly? He also doesn't have any other chickens (I asked) so he obviously doesn't know about how important it is to have more than one bird? And WHAT IF he is planning on hurting the bird?

I don't want to take the chance that my beautiful bird might end up fighting or starving or abused or dead.

 

[bobbi-j]

To answer the original question if I would sell chickens to a person who can't spell. Yes. As others have stated, not being able to spell has nothing to do with whether or not a person is capable of taking care of chickens. What you're doing there is called discrimination.

Now, if you were to ask if I'd just up and give away a $20.00 chicken to someone I don't know, the answer would be no. Why? Because I'm asking $20.00 for it and not giving it away. Their reasons for wanting the bird are secondary. Once that bird is sold, I have no say over what happens to it. It's fine to try to find out if the chicken is going somewhere that it won't be neglected or abused, but if someone wants to buy a chicken for a meal, that's their business. I just don't want to send any animal of mine to go somehere that it would suffer. Oh, BTW, people who can spell are just as likely to torture and abuse an animal as those who can't.

 

[Tanichca]

Sorry for coming off as arrogant, as the kid of two English majors, spelling is kinda important to me.

 

[Dar]

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here birdie.. rub my tummy from the INSIDE..LOL

 

[aubreynoramarie]

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uhhh... but this could happen with someone who is articulate and spells to your liking also. so because he spells shorthand (or does it because he cant spell at all) hes a flake who keeps birds in boxes and fights them? seriously this is CL, anyone could be that bad. If youre not willing to meet with these people and see a setup youre basically making a shot in the dark no matter how they spell. this is kind of rediculous

 

[nurse_turtle]

I wouldn't make the sale. Giving animals as a surprise gift is a bad idea. If someone doesn't take the time to use capital letters and punctuation when conducting a business transaction, will that person take the time needed to properly care for an animal? If they can't take the extra 30 seconds to incorporate proper grammar into their correspondence, will he take the time to secure the coop every night? Textspeak is making us lazy and ignorant appearing. When I place a local ad for anything, I only respond to those who make an effort to communicate using some semblance of proper grammar.

 

[Tanichca]

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uhhh... but this could happen with someone who is articulate and spells to your liking also. so because he spells shorthand (or does it because he cant spell at all) hes a flake who keeps birds in boxes and fights them? seriously this is CL, anyone could be that bad. If youre not willing to meet with these people and see a setup youre basically making a shot in the dark no matter how they spell. this is kind of rediculous

I'm just more comfortable selling to someone who is more professional.

 

[CheerioLounge]

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Whoa, Take it easy... Tani is just a kid. I understand her reluctance and I don't think she was judging.

 

[DTchickens]

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Have you asked him? Have you taken steps to educate him? When I try to sell birds, I like to provide as much info as I can usually. If say I sold some of my Shamo, I don't just assume everyone will know how to take care of them. But they do require special care to be kept out of the cold in the winter, as well as large roosts that aren't too high. I'd make that known to them if they were someone I didn't know raised them before hand (if I thought it needed to be said).