CKfarm22
Crowing
Hey y’all, thought i’d hop on here and tell y’all about something that had happened this following week. Me and my boyfriend and his family left for vacation for a week. We asked a neighbor to watch our chickens (he has chickens and has watched them once before). The previous time he watched them, we had no problems, other then him taking the eggs that were laid that week, which we don’t mind but it would’ve been nice to come home to a whole bunch of eggs, we were planning on using them and he already has chickens so i’m not sure why he had to take ours considering we left egg boxes out and we have a fridge to put them in but any who. This time has made me really upset. I’m in central jersey and we had quite a bit of rain here while we were away. We come home to, no eggs (again), the feeder almost empty with about a half handful of food and waterer bone dry in the run, and one of the three eggs that he didn’t take had a very thin shell, therefore she didn’t get enough calcium. Before we left, we bought the 10 oz bag of meal worms from tractor supply.. the whole entire bag was gone. And we had about a 1/4 bag of flock party garden grains too when we left... that bag was almost completely gone too. Me nor my boyfriend give our chickens scratch grains on a daily basis, nor do we give them meal worms on a daily basis, only as a treat. So to find out that the feeder only had a little bit of food in it and waterer were dry along with all the mealworms gone and the scratch grains almost gone, i am completely unhappy. I brushed it off for the night until this morning when i went out to clean their coop and waterer, and fill their feeder.... i noticed that the food that was left over in the feeder from the week was moldy. On top of that, we only got one egg today from three hens that are supposed to be laying. And one of my hens has really runny poop. I have not gotten over this yet because the neighbor talks like he knows so much about chickens, yet he couldn’t of even filled their waterer or feeder, and gave them way too much scratch grains and mealworms. I know i will definitely not be asking him to watch the chickens ever again.
I wish you could’ve gone on your vacation and came home without any worries! But no he had to go and do all of that! I’m really sorry. I honestly wish I could’ve come and watched your chickens for you (
) because this should have never happened and they should have been left with someone who really cares. This was not your fault whatsoever because he did fine the first time so how would you have known? He’s just so... fake! I’m really sorry hopefully your girls are all still doing fine. I’m sure they were very happy to see you again!
