OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

[blessedchick]

HOORAY! I'm so glad that things worked out for you and your handsome boy! I love happy endings...

Hey all! Thank you do much for your kind offers! I tried calling so many stables/barns I had to give in so I really appreciate your offers and good samaritan kindness! We found a nearby fairground that will let us keep him in a stall and we are allowed to stay near it in the truck. They will even let us use their bathrooms! Woohoo! I was starting to freak out. Still a 12 hour drive at minimum but with a good rest he should be good to go!
Thank you all do much from all of us!

 

[NoZolbitty]

JoshU will have to check the label on their food. I don't give corn as a treat, just lettuce, they didn't care for cabbage. The love apples and tomatoes and carrotts.

My father used to change the amount of corn in the horse feed be3cause he said it would heat them and cause them to sweat more. Have to agree with you on feeding them leafy stuff and fruit both could be chilled before serving

 

[FogHorn79]

How in the world did she locate the horse? If I had a place I would help. I know some place near me that boards horses tho..

 

[Imback76]

Hello all I'm from Southwestern Ohio, Nice to all the Buckeyes

 

[OHfarmerswife]

Hello all I'm from Southwestern Ohio, Nice to all the Buckeyes

Hey from in the country near Troy OH!!!

 

[thecochincoop]

Howdy neighbor! I'm from Georgetown

 

[Mucha Smooches]

Howdy. From a small town in SEO, south of Z-ville.

Noob chick-ers, bought from a seller who advertised on Craigs, had thousands of birds stuffed in a barn attic/loft. Conditions there made me raise an eyebrow, but didn't drive all that way to go home empty handed, and cold, wet weather led me to believe (hope) that was just a temporary situation. Complete chaos, funk in the air that nipped at the lining of one's lungs

, filthy floor, walls, and ceiling, extremely overcrowded cages and pens, chix of all flavours and sizes running around on the floor, clueless young "helper" attempting to tend to the several customers. Ten weeks later, find out we got the wrong flavour of birds, 13 oegb's (very nice, friendly, pretty birds, but completely useless for our purposes) for the big money (probably way way overpaid) we paid for 15 heritage wellies (2 of the chicks we got initially were actually wellies, but they were all in the same pen and all looked alike to us noobs and clueless attendant).

We chose wellies because of the camouflage qualities, as we have an airborne predator problem in our neck of the woods (and they're pretty

).

We get on the horn and arrange for a swap with the seller for the right birds, and a big roo. When we get there, conditions are almost the same as the first time, the only change is that half of the birds are outside, but the air is still poor up in the loft, and it is still very dirty, overcrowded cages, dead chix lying all over. There must have been thousands of birds of different kinds of poultry roaming the property.

Compromise #1 he only has 10 of the 13 wellies we were owed, Compromise #2 They show signs of being in poor environmental conditions, and since they have had little to no human contact, they must be socialized, and are very un-friendly ATM. Compromise #3 When we pick up our birds, we find the roo isn't so big. Again, we don't want to go home empty handed, because it is a 1.5 hr drive each way. Here's the kicker... We've had our new wellies for a few days, in their nice, new, CLEAN environment, and have noticed a few of them are still showing symptoms (runny, crusty nose, bad smell, sneezing, wheezing...) was reading about resp. diseases on here, and will probably have to cull them if they don't improve in a few days (yes they are separated from the others). Medicating is not an option and will not serve our objectives. Not very much fun for a noob chicker to have to cull 1/3 of the first flock.

We are quite displeased with the whole horrible experience and very upset with the seller (who we never actually met in person, just the clueless helper), and appalled at the conditions these birds were in, not to mention angry at having to possibly (probably) cull almost a half a dozen birds with a disease that wasn't our fault, and just eat the money we paid for them. I don't know if this is normal for chicken dealers, but I just got the feeling that something wasn't right there. I don't know what exactly, but something just didn't seem right about the whole operation, with all the birds being kept the way they were, and some other odd things about the property and the "helper". Being noobs, we made noobish mistakes, got ripped off, and probably never should have bought our birds from that guy. Should've trusted my gut on this one, and don't it just burn my biscuit.

Not only was it a loss of time, gas, future food, and confidence, it was a huge (to me) loss of money, which is as rare around here on the acres as a three headed cat in a pickle jar. Wish there were some kind of repercussion or restitution, or just some way to warn others of this seller.

On that note, I am looking for an honest, knowledgeable, and non-scum chickie dealer in the Southeastern Ohio region, with myself being located in the Perry/Muskingum area. And also a feed store that isn't TSC (trying to keep everything as local and small-scale as possible), since the local guy who is 5 mins away is going out of business.

 

[MallardDuckling]

Welcome Mucha! Great to have you here.

 

[MallardDuckling]

Anyone near Montgomery County Ohio breed, show, or judge Muscovy ducks?

I'm looking into showing my ducks, but I'd like someone to take a look at them first to see if it's really worth the time to show them or not.

 

[chikky]

Howdy. From a small town in SEO, south of Z-ville.

Noob chick-ers, bought from a seller who advertised on Craigs, had thousands of birds stuffed in a barn attic/loft. Conditions there made me raise an eyebrow, but didn't drive all that way to go home empty handed, and cold, wet weather led me to believe (hope) that was just a temporary situation. Complete chaos, funk in the air that nipped at the lining of one's lungs

, filthy floor, walls, and ceiling, extremely overcrowded cages and pens, chix of all flavours and sizes running around on the floor, clueless young "helper" attempting to tend to the several customers. Ten weeks later, find out we got the wrong flavour of birds, 13 oegb's (very nice, friendly, pretty birds, but completely useless for our purposes) for the big money (probably way way overpaid) we paid for 15 heritage wellies (2 of the chicks we got initially were actually wellies, but they were all in the same pen and all looked alike to us noobs and clueless attendant).

We chose wellies because of the camouflage qualities, as we have an airborne predator problem in our neck of the woods (and they're pretty

).

We get on the horn and arrange for a swap with the seller for the right birds, and a big roo. When we get there, conditions are almost the same as the first time, the only change is that half of the birds are outside, but the air is still poor up in the loft, and it is still very dirty, overcrowded cages, dead chix lying all over. There must have been thousands of birds of different kinds of poultry roaming the property.

Compromise #1 he only has 10 of the 13 wellies we were owed, Compromise #2 They show signs of being in poor environmental conditions, and since they have had little to no human contact, they must be socialized, and are very un-friendly ATM. Compromise #3 When we pick up our birds, we find the roo isn't so big. Again, we don't want to go home empty handed, because it is a 1.5 hr drive each way. Here's the kicker... We've had our new wellies for a few days, in their nice, new, CLEAN environment, and have noticed a few of them are still showing symptoms (runny, crusty nose, bad smell, sneezing, wheezing...) was reading about resp. diseases on here, and will probably have to cull them if they don't improve in a few days (yes they are separated from the others). Medicating is not an option and will not serve our objectives. Not very much fun for a noob chicker to have to cull 1/3 of the first flock.

We are quite displeased with the whole horrible experience and very upset with the seller (who we never actually met in person, just the clueless helper), and appalled at the conditions these birds were in, not to mention angry at having to possibly (probably) cull almost a half a dozen birds with a disease that wasn't our fault, and just eat the money we paid for them. I don't know if this is normal for chicken dealers, but I just got the feeling that something wasn't right there. I don't know what exactly, but something just didn't seem right about the whole operation, with all the birds being kept the way they were, and some other odd things about the property and the "helper". Being noobs, we made noobish mistakes, got ripped off, and probably never should have bought our birds from that guy. Should've trusted my gut on this one, and don't it just burn my biscuit.

Not only was it a loss of time, gas, future food, and confidence, it was a huge (to me) loss of money, which is as rare around here on the acres as a three headed cat in a pickle jar. Wish thewere some kind of repercussion or restitution, or just some way to warn others of this seller.

On that note, I am looking for an honest, knowledgeable, and non-scum chickie dealer in the Southeastern Ohio region, with myself being located in the Perry/Muskingum area. And also a feed store that isn't TSC (trying to keep everything as local and small-scale as possible), since the local guy who is 5 mins away is going out of business.

Mucha, Sounds like a bad situation (and a learning experience). Is there an authority that this place can be reported to? In my county (Holmes), any non-dog issues go through the sheriff's dept. At least maybe they would go look and make them clean up. Good luck!