NEEDED TO VENT, SORRY

[DuckLady]

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My friend and I did just that. We brought home a cage of 4 elderly buff orps and paid over $50 for them.

I still have one and she is at least 8 years old. She lays the very occasional egg and goes broody sometimes. She is my grand old lady. The others lived out their lives and died naturally.

 

[Vamp-A-Billy Princess]

Then they are probably OE game. I think thats what my little chipmunks are. Got em at Orsceln in the mixed banties.

 

[NYREDS]

People who view their snimals as property/livestock asn opposed to pets are not objectively wrong. They are called farmers and they are the people who feed us.
A farmer can't afford to treat every animal as a pet because if an animal doesn't earn it's keep it's a loss to the business of farming. Many farmers would consider keeping a chicken long after it's productive period a being ridiculous but many people do just that.

 

[DuckLady]

I cleaned up the thread to remove reference to anything but the subject, which was auctions in general, and any attacks on others.

Thanks.
Apologies to the OP for the thread going off track.

 

[shmooborp]

tees an auction yard just down the rode from me ... every tusday i see cattle in tiny trailers being diven to the yard. it breaks my heart. i know how u feel.

idk what the chickies are

 

[Katy]

I and my husband are some of those farmers. Our cow herd is a large part of how we make our living. We treat them well because it's the right thing to do, but also because if we don't they won't make us any money. It's only in recent times that people have had the extra income to have the pets that we do today. A generation ago you would have been hard pressed to find pet chickens.....a barnyard favorite I'm sure, but not pets as we see them today. I guess that's the reason I don't name mine.....they are livestock first and then pets.

About the babies sucking on your finger...... If you find a young goat or calf that won't suck on your finger that is the one that has problems and you should be worried about. When I've got bottle fed orphan calves...they'd suck on my finger all day if I let them.

I think everyone should be able to have whatever animal they chose to as a pet, but those who chose to raise animals as a source of income should also be allowed that right.

I thought I should come back and add that my husband would say I totally treat my chickens like pets and not livestock!! That is an on-going argument between us! Since they don't make any profit in his eyes they're pets!!

 

[kaylakala]

That is so sad. Thanks for the warning about these things!

 

[johnmayersquare]

That is awful! I'm glad to know about that.......I was kind of curious about what was at these livestock auctions and now I know........My Del's(TSC) takes such good care of the chicks and their feed/cages, etc. I even mentioned it to the manager when I was in there the other day! I have been into places that it is just HORRID. I'm sorry you had to witness such an awful site.

 

[MissPrissy]

I agree with you 100%, Katy. I grew up on a beef cattle farm.

It is equally bad when well meaning pet owners let their barns go filthy and the ground go sour and the animals have to do their best to eat and drink out of filthy containers and feeders.

We got some chicks and poults and ducks last summer from a place advertised at the feed store. If smell was color that guys house and buildings would have had a green and black haze of funk hanging over it. I had a $100 dollar bill in my purse and we took every bird we could get him to sell us for the cash I had.

 

[HorseFeathers]

My mom went to Longhorn feed store coupla weeks ago and found a brooder fulla chicks RIGHT NEXT TO THE OPEN DOOR! Here in maine we get really cold drafts! Anyway one EE chick was like way smaller than the others, she had RRS as we later found out, and she was completely caked with poo and dying. So mom brought her home. Now little CHarlotte is as big as, and, in some cases, bigger than, our other girls! Hooray! But curses upon Longhorn.