Why Do People Buy Live Chicks From Breeders and Farm Stores‭?

[Dona Worry]

roflmao you dont have to get defensive with me, i frankly dont care. not even enough to read your post fully // try having some byc spirit and working together. you dont have to agree. just because you dont agree doesnt mean you have to act angry and defensive. not the only thread i have seen this from you. hope everything is ok

If you don't care, why reply?

I'm not angry, but I am annoyed. Some of that annoyance may be bleeding in from my personal life, but this thread has irked me since it's conception.
I don't appreciate people who have an arbitrary definition of who should be 'allowed ' to do things and who shouldn't, particularly when they ignore large pieces of the issue at hand.

 

[1cock2hens]

If you don't care, why reply?

I'm not angry, but I am annoyed. Some of that annoyance may be bleeding in from my personal life, but this thread has irked me since it's conception.
I don't appreciate people who have an arbitrary definition of who should be 'allowed ' to do things and who shouldn't, particularly when they ignore large pieces of the issue at hand.

I wasnt talking to you.. i didnt quote you. i didnt even read your reply fully stopped after one sentence

 

[Dona Worry]

@ aart, @Donna Worry @1cock2hens
Lovely aren't they.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/some-chicken-photographs.74471/
The point you seem incapable of understanding is I don't have much of a choice about how these chickens are kept. They are not my chickens.
If you had seen what it was like here before then you might think differently, but I doubt it.
Also, the assumption that you have 'own' chickens in order to care about them, or know anything about chicken keeping shows a very limited grasp of reality.
Before I came here on average they lost a chicken a month. Can you get it in to your heads that the people who own the chickens don't care.
They hardly ever got cleaned out. The feed was rotting in the coops and full of rat shit.
They incubated eggs and the chicks died like flies because they didn't understand how coccidia works. Never mind, the horror of the place is way beyond my ability to explain.
So, get all that bile out. It is the Internet after all.
Then, if you want to be at all fair minded go and read some other posts I've made. read some of the stories I've written. Read some of my articles.If you can't manage that then
rant all you want. You have so little understanding of my situation here I can't even begin to take what you write seriously.

I'm so confused. You have articles about building their coops etc etc, but now you say you didn't decide all that?

I am not griping over how YOU keep chickens. I just don't think it gives you the right to decide who deserves to keep chickens and who doesn't .

 

[Dona Worry]

I wasnt talking to you.. i didnt quote you. i didnt even read your reply fully stopped after one sentence

???
You've quoted me twice, oddly insisting you didn't read the post you quoted both times...

 

[MissChick@dee]

@ aart, @Donna Worry @1cock2hens
Lovely aren't they.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/some-chicken-photographs.74471/
The point you seem incapable of understanding is I don't have much of a choice about how these chickens are kept. They are not my chickens.
If you had seen what it was like here before then you might think differently, but I doubt it.
Also, the assumption that you have 'own' chickens in order to care about them, or know anything about chicken keeping shows a very limited grasp of reality.
Before I came here on average they lost a chicken a month. Can you get it in to your heads that the people who own the chickens don't care.
They hardly ever got cleaned out. The feed was rotting in the coops and full of rat shit.
They incubated eggs and the chicks died like flies because they didn't understand how coccidia works. Never mind, the horror of the place is way beyond my ability to explain.
So, get all that bile out. It is the Internet after all.
Then, if you want to be at all fair minded go and read some other posts I've made. read some of the stories I've written. Read some of my articles.If you can't manage that then
rant all you want. You have so little understanding of my situation here I can't even begin to take what you write seriously.

There is a problem. Think about it. I will no longer feed the problem.
God bless all who have grace.
Now ima’ gonna go out in the rain. Collect my eggs. Make sure my girls are dry.
And thank God for all the good people I have in my life.
It’s just time better spent.

 

[1cock2hens]

I thought he responded the second time... what i said didnt require a response.. thats how little i care i didnt even spend the energy to get that much info.. just try being kind.. understanding // spread some of that good byc spirit / whats there to argue about that?/

 

[Shadrach]

I'm so confused. You have articles about building their coops etc etc, but now you say you didn't decide all that?

I am not griping over how YOU keep chickens. I just don't think it gives you the right to decide who deserves to keep chickens and who doesn't .

Yes I built the coops. The other coops were disgusting.
I would have built runs, big ones because of the predators but I go told no because of the cost and they wouldn't look nice.
The people who own the chickens don't want to spend money on their care and housing.
No chicken had ever been to a vet before I took one,
There weren't one, or two chickens here when I came here, which I could have housed in a coop and run, there were over twenty!
I manage the place with an extremely small budget, which I often subsidies from my own wages.
I could have killed a number of chickens and put the rest in a small run but given they were used to their freedom it wasn't a choice I felt I could make.
Now I lose one or two a year. It's a price you pay for free ranging. They all look healthy and they all get cared for and the system I have here is the best system that I can afford and best to satisfy the people who own the chickens and best for the chickens.
Just think about this for a moment. If it wasn't for wanting to care for the chickens, I would have another job somewhere in the locality. But any job I could find would mean leaving her early and getting back after dusk more often than not. the chickens wouldn't get let out when no one else was here.
At dusk, someone needs to be here to make sure the chickens all arrive home safely before the foxes and the feral cats start to hunt. Once again, if the owners have gone out for the night or have gone away the chickens don't get fed, don't get counted in at night (some will go in their coops by themselves) but the coops need closing to be safe.
I live here on my own. The owners come and go. There is no family or nice neighbor to pop round and pick up the slack.
Do you know of anyone who would do this because they care about chickens and the other animals here. Okay, I'm 63 years old and I don't need much money but you would die laughing if I told you what I get paid for this.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I think this is a very enlightening thread. I’ve learned bunches.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Yes I built the coops. The other coops were disgusting.
I would have built runs, big ones because of the predators but I go told no because of the cost and they wouldn't look nice.
The people who own the chickens don't want to spend money on their care and housing.
No chicken had ever been to a vet before I took one,
There weren't one, or two chickens here when I came here, which I could have housed in a coop and run, there were over twenty!
I manage the place with an extremely small budget, which I often subsidies from my own wages.
I could have killed a number of chickens and put the rest in a small run but given they were used to their freedom it wasn't a choice I felt I could make.
Now I lose one or two a year. It's a price you pay for free ranging. They all look healthy and they all get cared for and the system I have here is the best system that I can afford and best to satisfy the people who own the chickens and best for the chickens.
Just think about this for a moment. If it wasn't for wanting to care for the chickens, I would have another job somewhere in the locality. But any job I could find would mean leaving her early and getting back after dusk more often than not. the chickens wouldn't get let out when no one else was here.
At dusk, someone needs to be here to make sure the chickens all arrive home safely before the foxes and the feral cats start to hunt. Once again, if the owners have gone out for the night or have gone away the chickens don't get fed, don't get counted in at night (some will go in their coops by themselves) but the coops need closing to be safe.
I live here on my own. The owners come and go. There is no family or nice neighbor to pop round and pick up the slack.
Do you know of anyone who would do this because they care about chickens and the other animals here. Okay, I'm 63 years old and I don't need much money but you would die laughing if I told you what I get paid for this.

Instead of a book I think a blog would be more appropriate for you.

 

[aart]

Yes I built the coops.

I notice most your coops don't have much ventilation, doesn't it get hot as hades in the summer where you are?