RANT: Tractor Supply won't sell less than six chicks!!!

[JacinLarkwell]

Must be your state minimum? Or maybe TSC has a policy of min 4 unless the state has a bigger minimum…

Might be that our tsc is a big farm one too. Lots of 4H business, so odds are people at this one know the very basics at least. Who knows, I just know that both times I got the minimum and that happened to be 4.

 

[Brooks_]

Might be that our tsc is a big farm one too. Lots of 4H business, so odds are people at this one know the very basics at least. Who knows, I just know that both times I got the minimum and that happened to be 4.

TCS minimum is 4 here as well. Though I remember overhearing a clerk telling a customer that the min was 3, but that was well over a year ago.

 

[David61]

yea , i have to stand around and wait for someone to buy chicks so i can add two to their perchance. Man, its like high school all over. Standing around the 7-11 waiting for someone to buy beer.

 

[Painted Calls]

Minimum here in VA is 6. Has been for over 20 years.

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

I went to TSC and wanted to get 2-3 ducklings because they look horrible (their eyes were so sunken in I thought they didn’t have eyes) and I had to get 6 of them!! Luckily for whoever gets ducklings there, after I got mine, there were only 3 left. I’m happy I got the 6 though… I love all of them so much!! I’m probably going to my feed store and getting two more ducklings next week they said they will sell me two or three!

 

[hookie]

Ok, I am seething mad right now.

I went to TSC today to buy two new chicks. I already have four full grown chickens, and although we are expanding our run this weekend by about 5 times it's original size, my husband wants me to limit the new chickens to two or three this year, and maybe we can get a couple more next year. He wants to keep our flock small.

Well, when I get there and request two chicks, they ( there were three employees ) tell me I have to buy six! I told them last year I bought two from them, one died, came back the next day and bought one, and no one said boo about it. They said that person didn't know what they were doing- I said "both of the employees? And the cashier who checked me out?"

I ask "why? What sense does this make?" Then they said it was just store policy. No exceptions. I asked if there was someone higher up or someone I could call about this because that it is absolutely ridiculous!! Lots of people have flocks of two or three birds, and many people just don't have room for any more than that!

They said it's not really TSC's fault and there's nothing they can do because it's actually the Dept. of Agriculture that's cracking down and mandating a six chick purchase minimum. Who is the government to tell me how few or many chickens I have to buy???

I've looked online and haven't been able to find this regulation. Also, Mypetchicken.com will sell me 4 chicks (though I'll spend a fortune on shipping and have to wait a few months), so if this regulation is real, how are they getting away with it? I think TS is B-Sing me.

I'm going to write them an email demanding an explanation, but I need to cool down a little first... In the meantime I'm going to get with a friend of ours and see if he will take the extra chicks if I break down and buy the half dozen...

Thanks for listening to my rant, and any info on this policy would be much appreciated!!

 

[PiedPiperDucklings]

"It's store policy" is some bs! My local TSC sells 4 at a time, so it's def not a company policy. And the one in the next town over from me doesn't have a minimum. Ridiculous.

 

[hookie]

There is no minimum amount in Massachusetts, it's a big lie. I called the corporate office and asked them to show me the law. They called the store and then told me there was no law. They did say I had to buy 4 so I went to the store and person there said I could buy any number I want after I showed them my purchase history.

 

[Ponyiqandhens2]

Ok, I am seething mad right now.

I went to TSC today to buy two new chicks. I already have four full grown chickens, and although we are expanding our run this weekend by about 5 times it's original size, my husband wants me to limit the new chickens to two or three this year, and maybe we can get a couple more next year. He wants to keep our flock small.

Well, when I get there and request two chicks, they ( there were three employees ) tell me I have to buy six! I told them last year I bought two from them, one died, came back the next day and bought one, and no one said boo about it. They said that person didn't know what they were doing- I said "both of the employees? And the cashier who checked me out?"

I ask "why? What sense does this make?" Then they said it was just store policy. No exceptions. I asked if there was someone higher up or someone I could call about this because that it is absolutely ridiculous!! Lots of people have flocks of two or three birds, and many people just don't have room for any more than that!

They said it's not really TSC's fault and there's nothing they can do because it's actually the Dept. of Agriculture that's cracking down and mandating a six chick purchase minimum. Who is the government to tell me how few or many chickens I have to buy???

I've looked online and haven't been able to find this regulation. Also, Mypetchicken.com will sell me 4 chicks (though I'll spend a fortune on shipping and have to wait a few months), so if this regulation is real, how are they getting away with it? I think TS is B-Sing me.

I'm going to write them an email demanding an explanation, but I need to cool down a little first... In the meantime I'm going to get with a friend of ours and see if he will take the extra chicks if I break down and buy the half dozen...

Thanks for listening to my rant, and any info on this policy would be much appreciated!!

In my state TSC, feed stores etc all state 4 chick minimum and 2 duckling minimum..so I suspect it is the state law.

 

[Aunt Angus]

In my state TSC, feed stores etc all state 4 chick minimum and 2 duckling minimum..so I suspect it is the state law.

Here at my local store, they will sell as few as you want as long as you know what you're doing and already have chickens. I never get fewer than two, but I could buy one if I wanted. But I've been to others in nearby cities that won't sell fewer than four. My guess is it's company policy, and it varies by store/manager.