Sold the flock /5 mins flat!!WAH I MISS THEM!!!

[silkiechicken]

Wow, under 5 dollars a bird! No wonder they sold so fast! Hope they at least get to have a good life. Selling a bird is always a challenge and you wonder what ever happens to them in the end.

 

[Cetawin]

aaaaaaaawwwww come here :aww

 

[LinckHillPoultry]

Lessons are learned in various ways. Heck, I just lost 20, yes 20, birds on fathers day... and I know it was my fault, but I look at it this way:

Everyone and everything with a life goes to heaven, everyone who is good.
When God wants someone to leave earth and go to heaven, he will take them. There are various ways he can do that. Through people even.
When 20 of my birds died, God wanted them, so he chose them to die through me.
Yes we feel terrible, but there are lessons to have learned, and some may be painful and heartbreaking.

Do you know what most poultry birds in America are used for? Meat. So be proud that you raised your birds for pets and eggs. They had a good life, and sometimes we just can't afford to take care of them, so we must sell off some, and we are never going to know what becomes of them.

If the man that bought them must kill some, just hope he keeps a bunch for eggs.

I'm sorry.

 

[asher]

I have become super vigilant about where my animals go that I cannot keep, but truly, someone could act and look fantastic and tell you they were going to be pet house chickens and they could still be using them for slaughter.

I have no clue of your situation, but do you mind sharing why you had to get rid of them?

 

[SpottedCrow]

I'm so sorry ChickFillHay...
But if you're gonna have em as a business, your DH is right, you gotta bite the bullet...

 

[chickfillhay]

I have become super vigilant about where my animals go that I cannot keep, but truly, someone could act and look fantastic and tell you they were going to be pet house chickens and they could still be using them for slaughter.

I have no clue of your situation, but do you mind sharing why you had to get rid of them?

No, not at all. I originally had no intentions of selling them at all. (That's why they had names) But I did some research and decided I wanted some Buff Orpingtons. I am happy to inform that I hatched almost all of them and I got only 3 roos out of the lot. I have 11 total. Upon doing more research and by watching the flock I realized the the others would become to rough with my super tame little orps. So one of the sets had to go. The orps just started sounding like chickens. They stopped peeping and have started to free-range. The others would soon enough keep the orps from entering the coop at night as they did with 5 EE's that I have. In fact I just caught them after living on the "outside" for the past three weeks. I didn't want that happening to the orps. The 5 little EE's will be going to market soon as well. The EE hens had a total of 9 chicks that the man could not take. (Thank GOD) So I will raise them and eventually sell them off as well. But luckily I gave my number to a woman who wants them as pets! She was going to buy my chickens but was not ready at the time. She does however want the 5 when they get bigger.​

 

[purr]

don't beat yourself up , they had a good life with you.

I am going to sell my extra Roo's at auction when they are fully feathered out and handsome. Hoping someone will think they are so dapper . But when the bidding begins I really won't know what the buyer will do with them.

 

[chickfillhay]

I guess it'll take a while. I really had no idea I was THAT attached to them! I don't suppose it'll get any easier will it?

 

[jjthink]

For those who prefer they go as pets, while never 100% foolproof, you can have very careful screening and get a lot closer to the 100%...............takes time and effort but a lot less agonizing in the long run if the hope is to avoid slaughter. Anytime I've adopted anybody out (chickens, cats, dogs, whatever) with "pet" as goal, I check references, do site visits. I just can't sleep at night otherwise. There are just too many nuts out there - 20+ years of critter rescue work have driven this point home more times than I care to count.

JJ