leslea ~ MyPetChicken is very foolish for questioning your video, but also for accidentally sending you an internal email. It especially amazes me when an established company like MyPetChicken thinks that a sale of one chicken is more valuable that an unhappy customer. Fortunately, nowadays customers have a voice I hope you post your experience EVERYWHERE on social media, etc. as an example that their customers aren't important to them. Coincidentally, their website AND their Facebook page doesn't include customer reviews! lol BYC has some MyPetChicken review threads where you can be heard.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will likely do just that.
First, let me clarify: I explained myself poorly. I told them about the rooster first, they disputed it and accidentally sent me the email doing so, and I sent them the video because upon skimming, I could see that they didn't believe me. Only after I went back and read what they actually said about me to one another did my blood pressure skyrocket. I felt foolish for even having sent them the video by then, because they were not being helpful or living up to their image of service, guarantee, courtesy, etc.
Once I complained to them about what they said and asked them to remove me from their list permanently and
not to contact me again, they contacted me again to continue to argue with me, at which time I did not reply. So
done with them. I will have to wait now to get my refund to consider what kind of review I would leave them overall, after two faulty orders with them. I am also curious to see by then if my Marans turns out to be a Golden Cuckoo or a Silver Cuckoo. If it's not Golden, they will owe me more $, still, because Silver is not "fancy." What a pain in the butt. It would be easier to buy straight run and deal with unwanted roosters, I think. At least you know with the birds they are not choosing to be
ornery!
HATCH question:
Speaking of birds...my broody silkie Farrah of the Damaged Beak has bored of hatching the guinea eggs she was on. Yesterday morning she was off the nest, and stayed off all day. The guinea is still laying, but not yet sitting. Today Farrah is still definitely not broody. The first eggs she started setting were due to hatch 4/28. (28 day incubation for guineas).
There are 20 eggs in the clutch right now. I know the guinea will keep laying until she thinks she has "enough."
What do you think will happen?
Throw your guesses out for fun and I'll let you know how it pans out.
I'm guessing about 10-12 will remain viable and possibly hatch, and the rest will go bad. After doing my research, experiences are all over the place re: cooled off and restarted eggs. As cold as it has been the past two days, though (30s overnight), I am guessing the ones that were laid in early April are goners.
Planning on waiting until the guinea starts setting (or if another chicken goes broody, I guess) and restart the clock then. I didn't mark any of the eggs so I can't tell old ones from new ones, and from what I read, guinea eggs are really hard to candle because the shells are so thick, so I'm not planning to try.
Looking foward to hearing your predictions &/or experiences.
In baby news...my silkie roo is still peeping like a roo. Age 2 weeks + 3 days. He is half the size of the other silkie, a real runt. The Salmon Favorelles and Marans are growing so fast. These are my first LF chicks, so they seem like Godzilla birds. The kids are amazed at how big they are, already. Looking forward to the future!
They love the fermented feed. My full grown birds couldn't give a care about fermented feed or sprouted grain. They are all about the bugs in the grass right now, which is good, as I have pulled two ticks off the kids and myself this week, already.
New dishwasher is here! Gotta run. Fingers crossed installation goes smoothly. I am sick of handwashing 7 sinks of dishes per day!
