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Ended up picking up a shift at the feed store today. The manager begged me last night to please just come in for a shift any time I wanted today to try to deal with the chick situation.

They sent us over 500 birds at once. We have no room in the brooders, because we have chicks in there that we can't sell even on sale; no one wants straight run, and they keep sending us straight run.

So we have six tubs set up out back also. There are probably a good 700 birds in the store, at least.

Today I spent over two hours cleaning the brooders, feeding, watering, de-pasting butts, and moving birds around to try to make room in the brooders so I could move some from out back up front so we could sell them.

Oh, and the manager emailed the people in charge of sending chicks to all the stores to tell them to PLEASE stop sending us chicks.

Good thing, because apparently they planned to send us literally 600 more next week.
 
Alaskan said:
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It is insane.

And some of the chicks did terribly in shipping this week because we had another cold snap. All the bantams they sent us died except one and that one is only alive because it's in my brooder right now and I stayed up all last night tube feeding it.

All the turkeys but six died. All the brahmas have pasty butt.

The leghorns did terribly also. I have a brooder full of dying ones that I've also been feeding since last night. So far of the ones I've brought home two have recovered enough that as of a few hours ago they started being willing to eat and drink on their own.
 
Pyxis said:
It is insane.

And some of the chicks did terribly in shipping this week because we had another cold snap. All the bantams they sent us died except one and that one is only alive because it's in my brooder right now and I stayed up all last night tube feeding it.

All the turkeys but six died. All the brahmas have pasty butt.

The leghorns did terribly also. I have a brooder full of dying ones that I've also been feeding since last night. So far of the ones I've brought home two have recovered enough that as of a few hours ago they started being willing to eat and drink on their own.
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This makes me so sad/mad - but I am also thankful you're around to help the ones you can. I don't think our TSC has a "chicken person".
 
Pyxis said:
Ended up picking up a shift at the feed store today. The manager begged me last night to please just come in for a shift any time I wanted today to try to deal with the chick situation.

They sent us over 500 birds at once. We have no room in the brooders, because we have chicks in there that we can't sell even on sale; no one wants straight run, and they keep sending us straight run.

So we have six tubs set up out back also. There are probably a good 700 birds in the store, at least.

Today I spent over two hours cleaning the brooders, feeding, watering, de-pasting butts, and moving birds around to try to make room in the brooders so I could move some from out back up front so we could sell them.

Oh, and the manager emailed the people in charge of sending chicks to all the stores to tell them to PLEASE stop sending us chicks.

Good thing, because apparently they planned to send us literally 600 more next week.
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TSC?
Don't they have sense enough to send sexed chicks, or at least TRY to sex them?
 

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