People who work at feed stores are not always so smart!!

[LinckHillPoultry]

I love people who work at feed stores! If you let them, they will talk to you for hours [some].

I once went to the feed store and there was an older gentleman there who talked with me for about 15 minutes about chickens! He even gave me a free ($1) blueseale chicken pamphlet.

 

[speckledhen]

Ive said it before, I'll say it again. It isn't that they dont know anything. It's just so much of what they know ISNT TRUE. They scare me sometimes, I swear.

 

[Guitartists]

I'm tellin ya... for those of you that know the show... asking questions or for help at most feed stores is like that episode of King of the Hill where he tries to buy tools from some kid at the hardware store! LMAO If you haven't seen it... you should catch some reruns and hope to

 

[Maidservant]

Wow, I guess I'm lucky! We have two feed stores nearby here (ran by the same people, therefore they are the same company). They are always extremely nice, and if they don't know something (which is rare), they will take down your name and number and will find out for you and call you! The teenager that works at the one closest to me (5 minutes from the house) is the one that helped me decide on what whole grains and what ratio to feed to my chickens. He said that although he didn't have chickens at the moment, another customer did, so he gave the guy a call and wrote down how the other guy fed his. I added wheat to mine, but kept the mix the same otherwise. The ducks and chickens love it, and they are still growing like weeds! I'm now the resident "rabbit person" for the feed mill, lol. Any questions they get on rabbits that they don't know the answer to, they call me. Doesn't bother me a bit, and it makes me feel good that they involve their customers and really do want to give people the best information instead of just trying to sell them something.

Emily in NC

 

[Ericasl]

You are very lucky, wish we had that here and we are a very small town. There is also a lady who they say knows chickens.....When I went in there looking for meds she laught at me and said they are chickens when my get sick I just let them DIE. I thought I am glad I am not one of your pets or your CHILD.

 

[utahmethodist]

When I was looking into getting chick supplies, etc, I was in the IFA and an older man asked me if I needed any help. Sure, I thought, and asked him some questions about breeds. He proceeded to tell me that I needed to get Leghorns because they lay up to 385 eggs a year. "Really?" I said. "They lay more than one egg a day?" He said, "Well, how many days are in a year?" "365" I say. Then he says, "Yep - 385 eggs a year." Needless to say, I didn't buy anything from him that day, but came straight home and logged on to BYC and read all I needed to know from all you experts!

Poppycock, the Utah Co. IFA must send their employees up to Salt Lake! I went in to get grower mash for my 10-week-old pullets a little while back and ended up in an Abbott & Costello-type conversation about chick starter, grower mash, and layer pellets. This is my first experience with laying hens but I try to educate myself about things I don't know by reading as much as I can so I was pretty sure I knew what I wanted when I went in. And I knew I did NOT want to give layer pellets to my babies! I ended up buying the only bag of grower mash in the whole store. When I went around back to the pick up area to get it the feed guy said to me, "Can I ask you a question? Why do people come in here asking for 'organic' chicken feed? What's wrong with those people?" I must have looked like the gal to pick on about organic since I was having my chicken feed loaded into the trunk of a Toyota Camry.​

 

[cockadoodlemom]

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That is our feed store. The two men who own it run it and they do know what they are talking about cause they are one of us. If they don't know they don't hesitate to tell ya.
Didn't realize I was so lucky to have a great feed store and help.

 

[FlockEweFarm]

I am so lucky to have a great feed store run by great people in my town. Olsens Grain is always hopping, but the staff is knowledable, friendly and compassionate, and they have a guy on staff that has raised sheep and goats almost his whole life, so he knows more than most vets about those critters. The store is always clean and orderly and they bend over backwards to get what I want and need, and when I was in a bind after my divorce, they delivered 20 straw bales to me to help make sure my house was well insulated and warm for winter, and they helped sell my stock and equipment without charging me.
There is a feed store less than 2 miles from my house, but I wont trade with them because the store is always dirty and has poor selection, and they are rude.

 

[julietma]

I just read this thread this morning and thought, "I wonder if the guy at the feed store was right about it being okay to feed layer food to my chicks?"

Then I checked my LiveJournal blog and saw that LindaN had read my latest posting and informed me that, no, it is NOT okay, because of the calcium content. Thank you again, LindaN, for setting me straight!

Well, at least now I won't have to go back to the feed store to buy layer feed when I start to get eggs. Now I am set, with starter/grower feed for now, and layer for later.

Next time I'll just check here first!

 

[zgrower]

I've been trying to find a local supplier of organic poultry feed, so after getting the "no, cant help you" routine at my local feed stores I got out my phone book for one county over. This county has 800,000 plus people, 13 feed stores listed in the yellow pages. And keep in mind when I started this I was certain that someone would have exactly what I was looking for. Well, one person I talked to had to ask someone else what "organic chicken feed" was, another tried to convince me that the feed they mixed themselves was what i needed, and on and on. In short after calling all listed feed stores not a single one had what i needed. I know this isnt quite the same as not knowing about their product, but still its quite aggravating to have some supposed feed guru talk to you like you really dont know what your wanting or needing.