When I went up to the Jockey last Tuesday me and my mom were standing at this lady's truck waiting for her to get some change for a twenty. A guy came up and said he wanted two of her hens (who were laying.)
He was talking to her and said he had a lot of hens who were about the same age as the ones she had (6-7 months) and they weren't laying. She told him it was usually a feed issue and the conversation was basically like this:
"What are you feeding them?"
"Corn."
"What else."
"Just corn."
Why do people buy chickens and not find out what they are supposed to feed them and how to properly care for them? It always makes me mad when I see that.
Another thing I saw that angered me so much. There is an older guy who looks like a mountain man who is always there with a bunch of animals. He crams them so tight in the cage they can't even move. He had so many ducks crammed in a cage that their necks were are bent up and twisted and they were seting one on top of the other. As I walked past he had gotten a goose out for someone to look at and they decided not to buy it, so he was going to put it back in. I was standing next to to Amish women and we watched as he held it upside down by its feet and was trying to shove it in the cage. Its head and face were getting banged into the opening and the sharp wire. It was crying out and he just stuffed it in there like a kid stuffing a coat in their backpack. I got a BR roo from him this past summer who only had two toenails and was missing a toe due to mistreatment. Why do people treat them like that? You can make your money without being like that to the animals. In fact, they would probably make more if he had healthy, happy animals.
Sorry for the rant
He was talking to her and said he had a lot of hens who were about the same age as the ones she had (6-7 months) and they weren't laying. She told him it was usually a feed issue and the conversation was basically like this:
"What are you feeding them?"
"Corn."
"What else."
"Just corn."
Why do people buy chickens and not find out what they are supposed to feed them and how to properly care for them? It always makes me mad when I see that.
Another thing I saw that angered me so much. There is an older guy who looks like a mountain man who is always there with a bunch of animals. He crams them so tight in the cage they can't even move. He had so many ducks crammed in a cage that their necks were are bent up and twisted and they were seting one on top of the other. As I walked past he had gotten a goose out for someone to look at and they decided not to buy it, so he was going to put it back in. I was standing next to to Amish women and we watched as he held it upside down by its feet and was trying to shove it in the cage. Its head and face were getting banged into the opening and the sharp wire. It was crying out and he just stuffed it in there like a kid stuffing a coat in their backpack. I got a BR roo from him this past summer who only had two toenails and was missing a toe due to mistreatment. Why do people treat them like that? You can make your money without being like that to the animals. In fact, they would probably make more if he had healthy, happy animals.
Sorry for the rant
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