TSC IS LYNCHING CHICKENS!

[TomZilla43]

Idk.... I got a pretty good idea of what the employee was doing when you used the term lynching......
I get a completely different mental image when you say nobody at TSC was choking their chickens.....

 

[BantyChooks]

Earlier in this thread I was chastised for using the term “lynch” to describe chicks being hung by their necks to determine their gender. I was told I didn’t know the meaning of the words I was using and that I need to use less offensive words to describe the lynching of chicks. So I won’t use the term “lynch” anymore.

Having said that, I went to three more Tractor Supply stores today and didn’t see any employees choking their chickens.

I also just found a really cool feature on this site. It’s called the “ignore” button. It works very well. It’s just like changing the channel on a TV, if your offended you can ignore the offender and go on your merry way.

I am fortunate enough to have local feed stores mainly staffed by employees that know a little about chickens and certainly know enough about animals to keep them clean, fed, and healthy. I am glad that I haven't run into the issues described on this thread or I would most certainly start knocking heads. Don't get the birds shipped in if they're simply going to shiver in their own filth for days until they're purchased.

 

[sealer39]

Idk.... I got a pretty good idea of what the employee was doing when you used the term lynching......
I get a completely different mental image when you say nobody at TSC was choking their chickens.....

 

[Doublete]

I love my local TSC. They’re great.
And admit they don’t know everything but they do know a good bit.

They had blue Plymouth rocks (from freedom ranger which is local to us) ordered as straight run... I pulled up the site in front of two
Employees to show them that they are easily sexed at hatch... I myself picked 8 pullets and 3 cockerels.

 

[MomJones]

I just came from purchasing 12 chicks from Tractor Supply yesterday. I had no idea they were all from a straight run until after standing there for about 10 minutes trying to find a sign--any kind of sign that would shed some light on what breeds were what (there had to be at least 45 babies in there). So I decided to gamble on 12 yellow ones. Who knows what they are...I'll never go there again. Not one person there seemed to know anything about chickens. Unbelievable.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

But i didn’t ask, I just left the store thinking I can’t wait to post this experience on BYC! I have to ask, has anyone ever heard of sexing a chick by the “lynching method”?

Had a lady come here to buy chicks 2 seasons ago. She was practicing that UNPROVEN method. I asked her to not do it and she ignored me. She was escorted off our property.
To each their own, just not on our property with our property.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

TSC employees here can't even tell a white leghorn from a black australorp.

And let's not even get started on the straight run sex links.

Boils down to management. The team achieves greatness only in the hands of a great leader.
We have several TSC's in our general area. One is clearly run poorly. From the dirty parking lot to the dirty bathrooms to the neg attitude of the staff. Of course that one is closest to us so we drive twice the distance to another TSC for better conditions & service.

 

[BarredRockMom]

Ok, kudos for being strong enough to hold it together. I would not have been able to.

Even a jackass won't grab it's offspring by the head.

 

[rascal66]

I just came from purchasing 12 chicks from Tractor Supply yesterday. I had no idea they were all from a straight run until after standing there for about 10 minutes trying to find a sign--any kind of sign that would shed some light on what breeds were what (there had to be at least 45 babies in there). So I decided to gamble on 12 yellow ones. Who knows what they are...I'll never go there again. Not one person there seemed to know anything about chickens. Unbelievable.

12 yellow chicks? Ever find out what they were? Sometimes they sell Cornish so unless you want some meaty birds I hope they at least told you what they were!

 

[Cyprus]

Perhaps I should have also mentioned that for the most part in stores like Tractor Supply, Atwoods, and other feed stores I appear to be out of place, for lack of a better term. The manner in which the young man was described earlier in this thread (he thought they were icky and should work at Starbucks) is how I feel most people look at me when I am in environments like that. Of course I don't think the birds are icky and on multiple occasions I've taken "man cards" from snotty little redneck boys who don't know what something like j-clamps or j-clamp pliers are, but it doesn't mean that the whole time I'm there I don't notice people staring at me. That was another contributing factor to not wanting to confront or re-educate anyone. Which I suppose is rather sad on my part that the way people look at and treat me prevents me from dispensing knowledge to those who need it. That's one of the many reasons I enjoy BYC. I can post away without feeling like people are going to turn around to ask another associate if I'm gay, as if that somehow means that I don't have any business somewhere or that what I'm telling them isn't true. Which has happened multiple times when I've worked in pet store retail environments. Thankfully, it become obvious very quickly that I generally know much more than the rest of the staff or the customers so within months people are telling their friends to ask for me, or driving from hours away to get things from me. *shrugs*

What is a man-card?