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[shelleyd2008]

Mojo Chick'n :

A) did you get my PM and
B) did ya catch my rant above where your post showed up - we both posted almost the same time.

I had to think about the pm for a minute, but yeah, I did get it. I saw your rant, dad must have the insurance thing on his. They never charge him for service calls. The service guys are usually pretty cool, the last time one came out (twice actually), the 2nd guy replaced the cable coming into the house, cause I apparently cut it when I was planting my tulips

But he did it for nothing, cause the first guy didn't catch it. But yeah, that's a bunch of BS that they do that.​

 

[ChknLvnFam]

Mojo Chick'n :

Sooooo.....

sam is watching TV this afternoon, and all of a sudden, the Dishnetwork takes a dump. I figure it'll work itself out - an hour later it still has not worked itself out, so I call neighbor, she says her Dishnetwork is fine, so I call Dishnetwork, jump through the hoops (already tried everything he told me to try, but I humor him and do it again - he says, "I'll need to pass you over to our Advanced Technical Dept" ok, so I get passed over there - she simply asks me (verifying) everything that he did, and it did not work, correct? yes, says I - so she says "well, I'll have to send someone out." (By this time I am wondering just what qualifies her as Advanced Technical Help - and how much extra she makes over the guy who went through the list the first time.)

She says it'll cost me 49 bucks for the service call, and if he doesn't happen to have the equipment on the truck, and has to order it, I'll have to pay shipping and handling. I am not pleased, but agree.
So, we set up a day and time Monday between 8 and noon.

I hang up, and think about it awhile, get angry, then call back -

I tell them to change my service call to a "pick up your equipment" call, and that I am switching to some other carrier. Lady wants to know why (different lady). I tell her everything about their service that has ticked me off the last two years, and tell her that I am NOT going to pay a service charge for THEIR equipment malfunctioning, and I am NOT going to pay shipping and handling if they cannot bring out the correct parts the first time (how many parts to this thing can there be? dish, little black unit, cable? wow, better hope they order extras

)

so I tell her to send the truck out monday to take the stuff down, I dont' want it anymore - she tries to sell me the "extended warranty plan" (first lady also tried) where I pay 5.99 per month and the first service call is free, and then I only pay 29 bucks for other calls.

I inform her that if I have to pay for ONE service call it is too many and if I had to call for a second one, I surely would not be staying with their company, so forget the Extended Warranty Plan (on equipment that belongs TO THEM - I am "leasing" it - it isn't MY equipment). and just send the truck monday for pick up.

At this point she decides to try Butt Kissing - and gives me a credit for the service call, and makes a note on the service record (why the first woman could not do this is beyond me) to make sure to bring all parts necesary for fixing my problem.

I'm still calling around Tuesday after the holiday is over. But I'll take the free service call and equipment, and make them come out a second time to pick up their crap.

That's what ya get for making me go through three different people to figure out that the stuff doesn't work, isn't gonna work, and needs to be replaced at their own darn expense since it is THEIR equipment.

grrrrrrrrr

meri

eta - moral of the story.... "Don't mess with a Yankee B!tch who has lost her TV for the Whole Weekend"

We got DirecTV and have been pretty happy with it so far. We got it with an ATT package that eventually ATT said they never offered. Solution? Drop the package, keep the ATT basic for the internet, drop the phone service and picked up vonage. They messed up royally. We went straight to DirecTV and just do seperate billing through them. It's pretty good service and the guy spent hours on us since our cable was so out of date.​

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

For the first Morning since last December - I have no babies or quail in the hatchery room to feed/water

yay!!!!!!!!!

All I have in the house is a pair of Button Quail (in a tank in the living room), and they had food and water left from yesterday afternoon when I cleaned their cage.

Now I just have to find time to clean the hatchery room. I'd like to do it before Chickenstock, just in case I get some eggs there

The deck is almost done - could have been done yesterday, but Jamie and Hubby were wiped out from working on it every day all week. They stopped early.

Hey Shelley - I'm thinking we need to put signs out up by the church, pointing the way to Chickenstock for people - you know I missed it the first time

and it has since grown up with brush and such in the one people's yard, you don't really see the church or the turn until you are right on top of it now.

As more time goes by, I'm positive that blue cochin is a little girl. I wish she was a LF - she is pretty.

Maybe she'll fit in with the buff rock bantams....

she'd be perfect for hatching their eggs!! yeah, I think I'll stick her in with them when I get them seperated. Since I need an extra coop to seperate those (and do not have one), I'll probably just put the Buff Rock Bantams in with the LF Cochins, since the size dif is gonna be big enough, and I doubt I'll have a problem with the cochin roo (unlike, perhaps, the Orp roo or the BR roo). Plus it'll look pretty having buff and black together.

Maybe, if by some chance she does turn out to be a roo - I'll keep it anyway, and get 3 or 4 bbs bantam cochin girls for him next spring.

But I am reasonably sure it's a girl. I've been wanting blue cochins - guess I'll make do with the free one I got

I had to carry Gump around under my arm last night, so the columbian rocks would go into the coop - they're afraid of him (he is a "sneak attack" sort of lover, like his father was

all the girls walk around the yard with one eye aimed behind them). He isn't as big as Mr. Speckles was, though, so that is one saving grace for my poor Buff Orp girls (he likes them the best). Once I got the rocks in, I put him back in and they all had fits

so I just turned out the light.

The Columbian Rocks are weird chickens, anyway - they stick to themselves, don't care to mingle with the other chickens, would rather be all alone down in the cow pasture than come up into the yard. I need to catch them and take them out to Sano, too - or Liberty, whichever I happen to get to first.

Miss Purdy Poopscratcher insists on laying her eggs in the barn in the hay. I need to grab some loose hay to put into the nest boxes, maybe she'll get the hint (got pine shavings in there, now). She spends a lot of time... ahem.... scratching around in the calf pasture, herself... hence her name

She's the most beautiful of all the Buff Orp girls, though, so I love her anyway

even if she does run around with cow poo on her feet and beak most of the time (and again...

).

Well, gonna cruise BYC a bit.... since I don't have TV and can't watch the news grrrrrr....

meri

 

[cthrash1]

Hey Meri,
I didn't notice if Spydertoys was online... You need to take a trip over her house anytime soon? I'm at my moms in Fountain Run and will be heading home soon, thought if you had time I could stop by and have you ride over with me to see if she still has any girlys left.

Cindy

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Yeah, we can drive over - she's probably home (usually is) but it isn't far (12 miles) so if she's not home it's not too far out of our way.

I had her telephone number - not sure what I did with it

let me check PM saved messages, maybe I have it....


Ok, PM'ed it to ya.


meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Yep, no problem, I can just get it back from ya at Chickenstock.

 

[spydertoys]

Mojo Chick'n :

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Yeah, we can drive over - she's probably home (usually is) but it isn't far (12 miles) so if she's not home it's not too far out of our way.

I had her telephone number - not sure what I did with it

let me check PM saved messages, maybe I have it....


Ok, PM'ed it to ya.


meri

Listen to you two..talking about me like I wasn't here!!!!

I'm here now..so you better be all nicey, nicey!!!

 

[shelleyd2008]

Hey everyone, I just wanted to give you all a heads-up on the specials that mypetchicken.com has right now. Your choice of (all pullets) BR, RIR, EE, or their rainbow egg layers. The total price with shipping is $41.50

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Well, I just got done "cleaning house" so to speak.

I had a few chicks and chickens that were just "ugh" if ya know what I mean.

I culled about 6 chicks, and that Orp Roo I had given to me for free. I know someone at Chickenstock had wanted him, but after observing him running around, he is not something to be bred - has more problems than I originally saw. He walks funny, his toes ain't right, and he has this weird thing going on with his head, too - it looks mishappen. (probably why he was free

why not just cull the really obviously bad ones like that??) His feet look like they were hacked off halfway up the toes!! no toenails at all (well, he had one...) like a "club foot" but in a chicken. Glad I didn't pay anything for him.

Been so busy, this is the first time I've had a chance to just sit out there and watch them closely. Otherwise I'd have culled him before this.

But, all the ones I have left (I think, will know better once they go back to the coops tonight) are keepers (I mean, "good ones - ones I would keep if it were me", some are still for sale.) Hubby is busy with the deck still, or he'd probably tell me hang onto them and sell them - let them be someone else's problem

I hate doing that - which is why I culled them when he wasn't looking - he hasn't any idea how many or what I have out there, right now

so he won't even notice.

I'll take note of what I have left for sale and update the Chickenstock "have" list when I figure it out.

Now I just need to clean the brooder coop so I can move everyone around to their new homes so I can get some pure eggs by Christmas

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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NNNNNNNOoooooooooooooooooooooo

no more chciks - at least until Christmas - then I can deal with chicks

meri