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[chiques chicks]

LMP - Tractor Supply has a Now Hiring sign up. Think we should apply?

My tractor supply has asked me if I want a job.
They prefer people with animal experience. A lot of people that go there have no idea what they are doing and welcome advice/help. I frequently find myself spending more time helping customers than getting what I need. Of course I know where almost everything is in the store.

 

[chiques chicks]

I wish I had a sure answer for you. Last winter I lost 6 chicks by putting them out without adequate heat, so I'm extra careful now. I've kept chicks indoors for at least 5 - 6 weeks at times, but it does get a bit smelly.

How are the acting, are they trying to get as close as possible to the heat, or are they moving around like they aren't cold?

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If they are huddling under the light, they are too cold. It depends on how much heat lamp you have.

If you can keep an area around 75 degrees, they should be fine. If it's under 70, I'd be concerned.

 

[barbiegirl]

Burrrr, it's going to be bitterly cold out there this week!

• Brutally cold weather is expected Wednesday night, when it will be partly cloudy, with a low of about 4 degrees.
  The combination of brisk winds and very cold temperatures will produce wind chills of 10 degrees to 20 degrees below zero Wednesday night and Thursday morning. A wind chill advisory may be needed.​

I hope everyone will stay warm!!! Thank goodness I have the heated water bowls, one less thing to worry about!

 

[oletymer]

Burrrr, it's going to be bitterly cold out there this week!

• Brutally cold weather is expected Wednesday night, when it will be partly cloudy, with a low of about 4 degrees.
  The combination of brisk winds and very cold temperatures will produce wind chills of 10 degrees to 20 degrees below zero Wednesday night and Thursday morning. A wind chill advisory may be needed.​

I hope everyone will stay warm!!! Thank goodness I have the heated water bowls, one less thing to worry about!

I just vasolined all my kides combs tonight. my oldest roo hardly has a comb left after 3 years of frost bite of course he's leghorn. but some of my girls stay out in the run on there roost all night watching the voles eat there food. I'n never seen so many as this year.

 

[dheltzel]

My tractor supply has asked me if I want a job.
They prefer people with animal experience. A lot of people that go there have no idea what they are doing and welcome advice/help. I frequently find myself spending more time helping customers than getting what I need. Of course I know where almost everything is in the store.

Sounds like a great fit, you should take it! You'd love getting paid to help people with their animals. You do it here for free, right?

Really, we should organize an in-store chicken workshop. Compared to the average person buying chicks at TSC, we are all "chicken whisperers".

My big news of the day --- 10 CCL eggs, all hatched, looks like 2 cockerels in there. I keep running in and looking again, I can hardly believe it.

 

[chiques chicks]

Sounds like a great fit, you should take it!  You'd love getting paid to help people with their animals. You do it here for free, right?

Really, we should organize an in-store chicken workshop. Compared to the average person buying chicks at TSC, we are all "chicken whisperers".

My big news of the day --- 10 CCL eggs, all hatched, looks like 2 cockerels in there. I keep running in and looking again, I can hardly believe it.
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Unfortunately they can't compete with the past at my current job and my current schedule changes so often I can't take a part time position. I would love to work there part time if I could. I think they have a 15% employee discount, too.

I have done some show and explains at my local tsc. Yeah, they know me pretty well there, lol.

 

[dheltzel]

Unfortunately they can't compete with the past at my current job and my current schedule changes so often I can't take a part time position. I would love to work there part time if I could. I think they have a 15% employee discount, too.

I have done some show and explains at my local tsc. Yeah, they know me pretty well there, lol.

I'm in the same place - could never afford to work there, but the employees know me well. I tried to get my nephew to apply there, but no success.

Sunday I found a Welsummer egg in a pen of youngsters, so I made up a nest box and installed it. I have a mature CCL roo in there and he sure got excited. He started calling the girls from inside one of the nests to come look, and he did convince one to "try it on for size". Very entertaining watching and listening to him. Anyone else have a roo that does "nest advertisements" ?

 

[SilkieSensation]

LMP: Not sure about PA but Ohio doesn't require pwrmits for red-eared sliders. Petshops are only supposed to sell baby turtles "for educational purposes" but there is no documentation required to prove you are a teacher or homeschooling or anything. I have a Peninsula Cooter that is over 12 years old now. She was barely bigger than a quarter when I got her. We added a red-eared slider as her companion over the summer & he's just a little smaller than her but no clue on his age. We have also been looking at a gorgeous Painted Musk to add to the family but are still debating on it. Pokey, our original turtle, has been a member of the family longer than 2 of the children...lol

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I'm in the same place - could never afford to work there, but the employees know me well. I tried to get my nephew to apply there, but no success.

Sunday I found a Welsummer egg in a pen of youngsters, so I made up a nest box and installed it. I have a mature CCL roo in there and he sure got excited. He started calling the girls from inside one of the nests to come look, and he did convince one to "try it on for size". Very entertaining watching and listening to him. Anyone else have a roo that does "nest advertisements" ?

our little OEGB used to advertise the nest boxes to the ladies a little bit when they were first starting to lay. Since he's not the boys, nobody pays any attention to him lol. One roo that I used to have would pick the dumbest spots and try to convince the girls to try it on for size. I saw him just right in the middle of the yard once trying to convince a hen that it was the PERFECT spot to nest. She looked and walked away.... practically shaking her head as she walked lol

 

[troyer]

Sunday I found a Welsummer egg in a pen of youngsters, so I made up a nest box and installed it. I have a mature CCL roo in there and he sure got excited. He started calling the girls from inside one of the nests to come look, and he did convince one to "try it on for size". Very entertaining watching and listening to him. Anyone else have a roo that does "nest advertisements" ?

As far as I know most of my Cubalaya roosters do that on a regular ongoing basis.