Tractor Supply Company Petition - Please Consider Signing

[txhomegrown]

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[FMAFarms]

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We're in a rural area with two TSCs within a half-hour drive from us (in opposite directions, of course). From one I rescued our poor vent-and-tailfeather picked Violet. Yesterday at the other I handed an employee a D'Uccle bantam that had had its toe flayed by the older bantams in its bin. Rural does NOT mean knowledgeable.

Sunny_Side_Up, it's not that they're advertising to the general public that they have injured chicks to adopt. They'd be notifying US, here on BackyardChickens.com. We more than any Joe Schmoe off the street would know better how to care for an injured chick, and quite possibly more than the employees at TSC. That's the whole point of the petition: to get TSCs to let us, not the general public, know when they've got an injured chick that needs a home RIGHT NOW. If a TSC, say, in the outskirts of Omaha posts something like, "Omaha TSC has a week-old RIR with a pecked eye, needs a good home now!" or another TSC posts, "Galveston TX TSC has an Austrolorps chick with a gimpy leg," I'm sure one of us that lives in the vicinity of that particular TSC would go and pick it up to give it a home and loving care. It's such a small policy change, and it puts the injured chicks in the hands of people who would care. Plus, from the TSC viewpoint, it shows that they are reaching out to the poultry community as well and that they do care about the chicks they carry.

Yes, I'm sure there are knowledgeable TSC employees and that there are TSCs that offer chicken classes and do what they can for the chicks. Great! Let's take the first step to making this across the board by showing TSC what they can do to make help the chicks in their inventory have a better chance at life. That's pretty much all there is to the petition.

 

[Miss Lydia]

wouldn't work for me

 

[txhomegrown]

There are 1000 TSC stores in 38 states. I am curious as to how you would get all 1000 to devote time to post a sick chicken alert? Maybe each one can hire an extra employee to keep track and post a message to corporate headquarters, where another employee especially hired for this duty will put them all together and post them here. Or maybe it would be better to have each store post a message every time a chick has pasty butt. That should only add a few thousand extra posts a day to this site. If you want to rescue chickens, quit typing about it and head to wherever they sell chicks in your area and tell them what you would like to do.
Armchair quarterbacks never win a game and keyboard heroes never save anything.

 

[quiltnchik]

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I agree with you wholeheartedly. However, I have an issue with my local TSC because I made a suggestion to stop kids from messing with the chicks, and they flat out ignored me! All they need to do is place the tubs containing chicks up on bales of wood chips to get them too high for little ones to reach into. Easy solution, which I first saw at another TSC about an hour away, but they evidently couldn't be "bothered" to do it. I guess they'd rather have dead chicks than take a few minutes to prevent it.

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

I signed!

 

[bywaterdog]

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I agree completely, the economics just won't work.

While were at it, I hear that tens of thousands of chickens die each day at processing plants, yet a few escape the unloading process to run around in the parking lots. Lets send a petition to all plants to post when this happens so someone can go on a rescue mission............................................

 

[Nicolla]

I signed it too

 

[lemongrass]

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I was thinking the same. There are so many of these stores and there's no way they would hire an extra person to handle it. A better idea would be to call the store in your area and ask about these things. You can ask what chicks they have, if any... if any are looking sick... what the deals are now, etc. It would take only a minute of your time and their time and doesn't put a huge burden on the company (ie; something they will end up not doing). Or, you could request your local TSC logs into BYC and posts updates, or maybe leave your number for them to update you specifically and you can post. I'm thinking a petition at the corporate level would not help so much, but if you do it on an individual store basis you may seem results. It seems like something a concerned employee would have to implement before it would be accepted on a bigger level. Also, they would need internet access at the store... do they? I have no idea, I've never worked in one. But if its done over the phone thats easy to do and a member of BYC already can post for them in area specific posts.

Just throwing ideas out there.

 

[Judy]

This thread has been moderated, and some posts removed for flaming / trolling. The OP asked for signatures, not an argument about the situation. Please keep it on topic.​