Why don't people listen... Rant

[Chullicken]

One evening last year i saw a Raccoon entering the duck-house, ran out in my pajamas, barefeet, grabbed a broomstick and beat the 'coon dead. - My wife now thinks i'm totally "loco". - So even doing the right thing (in your opinion) can make you look bad in the eye of the observer…

I don't know, I can live with being thought of that way. I shot at a weasel last year after It murdered most of my flock with a .22 rifle, ran out of bullets so ran at it trying to club the thing to death with the rifle screaming like a wild man. Think I ended up removing ever weasel in a 10 mile radius...I do what I must for my 'kids'. So call me a psycho LOL...I've seen much much worse.

 

[Chullicken]

Maybe one of us should write it!!!

Excellent leadership challenge for you! Submit that bad boy to the admins on here and you'll be the next shining star of BYC!!

 

[Chullicken]

I should have added, I'm a very 'Live and Let Live' person. I don't even like having to kill mice in my house and I try to avoid it but somethings just put me over the edge.

 

[cmom]

Are there chicken books available with paragraphs, containing less than 160 characters?

None that I know of. Here are a couple of books written by the BYC owner and another person and another book by a BYC member on raising chickens.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118982789/?tag=backy-20
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1440339244/?tag=backy-20

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Client wanted chickens. However, she's not there every day. Told her the basics, but she didn't listen.

Purchased a coop-run combo said to hold 15 birds, but only realistically holds 3, barely. (3×3.5). Put up poultry fencing for a larger run, then purchased 10 standard chicken and 4 Ginny's.

Seeing she wasn't going to be around all the time, she purchased 2 mini Australian Shepherds to protect her flock... I voiced my opinion, which she didn't like.

Pups are outside only. Live in the barn or garage. Very little human interaction. Guess what? Pups got a little older, and bored, and decide to do what bored puppies do. Chase what's available. Chickens. Two missing chicken's and ginny's. Feathers all over the place.

Now she's wondering why, and what to do about it. Why don't people do their homework before they commit.

Sorry for the rant. Highly frustrated.

I think people don't listen because you aren't telling them what they want to hear - not what they need to hear.

I've been through this so many times.
On this site, people have even attacked me when I didn't give the advice they wanted to hear calling me names like hateful and rude.
That kind of response makes one not want to respond to any posts.
I'm also an adjunct professor of poultry and other topics at area community colleges and several green venues. One class I taught had a nice elderly gentleman who wanted to buy a tiny coop at Williams-Sonoma. I told him it wouldn't hold the chickens he wanted to get. He ignored me.

 

[Matilda Belle]

I didn't read the whole thread, but do have a question @silkiekeeper.

Cause the discussion seemed to go a different way.

Did you eventually stop selling you’re chicks to this person?
I wouldn’t sell any chicks to such a person, not even for 10 times the price.


I did things wrong too in the beginning too. Bought sick chicks, probably with coccidiosis. And chicks that turned out to be young cockerels. Probably many of us do things the wrong way at start. But I certainly learned quick cause I didn't want more casualties.

I am not going to sell to her again. I can’t with good conscience provide chicks to someone who refuses to learn (and is over the legal limit on # of hens in the city). She knows she can only have a certain number of chickens and she continues to want more. I know they are addicting but she needs some self control. She complains about the ones she already has taking up too much time. Ugh. When she asks me for chicks I just tell her they are all spoken for.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I am not going to sell to her again. I can’t with good conscience provide chicks to someone who refuses to learn (and is over the legal limit on # of hens in the city). She knows she can only have a certain number of chickens and she continues to want more. I know they are addicting but she needs some self control. She complains about the ones she already has taking up too much time. Ugh. When she asks me for chicks I just tell her they are all spoken for.

Boy, do I feel you on that.
I've made the mistake of agreeing to sell chicks to several people who didn't really have the wherewithal to properly care for them.
I still fret for those birds even more than the ones that were taken by predation on my property.

 

[Matilda Belle]

Boy, do I feel you on that.
I've made the mistake of agreeing to sell chicks to several people who didn't really have the wherewithal to properly care for them.
I still fret for those birds even more than the ones that were taken by predation on my property.

I try not to be a complete control freak with selling chicks to people, but if I know it’s a bad situation I won’t sell. It would be irresponsible on my part. Unfortunately in this case I didn’t find out it was a bad situation until after the birds were sold.

Making low ball offers for my chicks is the first sign it’s not a good situation. I refer those to online hatcheries.

 

[cmom]

I am not going to sell to her again. I can’t with good conscience provide chicks to someone who refuses to learn (and is over the legal limit on # of hens in the city). She knows she can only have a certain number of chickens and she continues to want more. I know they are addicting but she needs some self control. She complains about the ones she already has taking up too much time. Ugh. When she asks me for chicks I just tell her they are all spoken for.

 

[cmom]

Around here many people who want to start with chickens want ready to lay for the eggs and not be bothered with raising chicks. They are often ill prepared for the work that goes into properly caring for the birds. Not everybody. If I have birds to sell I take them to our local farm swap. It has been going on for over 10 years now and is pretty well know in our area. I have in the past had people come to my place to buy birds and they want to pick and choose. I have had people try to go into the coops and pens, but no way. Often people just want pretty birds as yard candy. There are all types of people. We do our best...