Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[bigzio]

Nice day here.....I always keep my rows nice and wide for room to work, and always rotate crops in a prolly 5 year rotation...so where maters are this year, won't be again for 5 years. Jim, some years the potato beetles are worse than others. In the really bad years, I will get a few to pick off. I haven't had any in over 5 years....

Wish I could help others with extra chicks, but need to keep the ones I have...sorry.

Monthly meeting at Camp tonight....hope it is a short one...to nice to be dealing with business of any kind.

Time to go till the garden before the squash starts to spread out....I have a few cuke leaves that are I think burnt from a little too much fertilizer ( chicken manure )...I really laid it on this Spring.

I see that sandhill preservation sells ground cheery seeds. I've never grown them or eaten them. Are they just for jellies Irish?

Peace...bigz

 

[45ishChickenMom]

Glorious day here too in Gods Country. My raised gardens are out of control, the chickens have strawberry on their feathers and Coat One of the deck stain is done. Anyone in need of an eight-week old EE rooster? Super sweet (so far), but it would better to rehome him sooner than later (thought he was a pullet, like so many). Can deliver or meet half way. Happy Thursday!

 

[chikenscratch]

Just checking in, like Terri O, so you all know I'm still alive!

Animals are mostly fine, I just lost one of my bearded dragons however

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Chickens are laying and I have one broody sitting on Terri's eggs (I'm not sure if they'll hatch, but she is trying!)

Have a great 4th everyone!

 

[cuties]

Sorry about your beardie Cs

Vent alert!

I know by choosing to sell I am choosing to deal with the general public. And the customer is always right blacl bla!
however this latest lady has expected me to hold a ginormous order for over 1 week with absolutely 0 commitment on her part. Normally I hold for 24 hours without a commitment to a pick up date or half down via PayPal. She seemed nice tho. And we texted...... nonstop.... Sooo many questions ! But I am always very patient with the questions. Because I am exactly like that when aquiring stock.
Through the coarse of HUNDREDS (literally ) of texts I asked 15 times for a pick up or down payment. And clearly stated numerous times about our normal policies.
and then all of a sudden when I got a little blunt about things I received no response. So I chose to make a new ad. And sold 2 of the birds out of the order.
Now I am a "horrible " breeder. And I am only in it for the $.
Thanks for the vent!!!



Good day today last day of actual training for the dog project kiddos. Just run through now. I am hopefull for a lot of them ♡
we have all of out testing squared away for our fair chickens! I Sooo wish I could post pics of our choices here. I am absolutely in love with some of our BLRW this year!
I am so excited for my kiddos ♡

Frenchie, I just put you to shame

Nighties! !!

 

[Cindlady]

Hi All!

CS.... Sorry about your bardie, another friend of my lost one of theirs last month. We had one about 5 years ago, she was sweet.

cuties....

Night All!

Hummm.... no Jim for 2 days?

 

[jvls1942]

Sorry about your beardie Cs

Vent alert!

I know by choosing to sell I am choosing to deal with the general public. And the customer is always right blacl bla!
however this latest lady has expected me to hold a ginormous order for over 1 week with absolutely 0 commitment on her part. Normally I hold for 24 hours without a commitment to a pick up date or half down via PayPal. She seemed nice tho. And we texted...... nonstop.... Sooo many questions ! But I am always very patient with the questions. Because I am exactly like that when aquiring stock.
Through the coarse of HUNDREDS (literally ) of texts I asked 15 times for a pick up or down payment. And clearly stated numerous times about our normal policies.
and then all of a sudden when I got a little blunt about things I received no response. So I chose to make a new ad. And sold 2 of the birds out of the order.
Now I am a "horrible " breeder. And I am only in it for the $.
Thanks for the vent!!!



Good day today

last day of actual training for the dog project kiddos. Just run through now. I am hopefull for a lot of them ♡
we have all of out testing squared away for our fair chickens! I Sooo wish I could post pics of our choices here. I am absolutely in love with some of our BLRW this year!
I am so excited for my kiddos ♡

Frenchie, I just put you to shame

Nighties! !!

join the club..

it is soo frustrating to deal with people...
You do not owe that lady a thing,,
If people really want the birds, they (or I as a buyer) will not put it off..
as soon as I make contact and decide to buy, I leave within the hour ..

I had a lady from North of the Macinac bridge wanting a puppy,, I agreed to drive almost half way to meet her.. all was fine, and then I told her that I would not leave here until I had a down payment.. silence.. WTH? I am not going to drive 150 miles , just to meet nobody at the other end ...

I told that lady right off the bat,, if communications drop off, I lose interest very quickly ..

those two goats I had a couple of weeks back.. I was willing to give them away, but then the people were communicating and then not,, finally they did show up and I charged them $50.oo just for my agriivation ...

Cooties, it is nice to be nice, but not good to get jerked around.

good luck on selling the birds to someone else, and I hope you sell all that you want..
and afterward, then it would be nice if that first lady would call and you could tell her they are all gone..

..........jiminwisc.........

 

[cuties]

Thanks guys ♡
yes Jim. That is such a Ling way to drive without a commitment.
It is also sad that it has come to that. That you can no longer trust to take a person for their word. I wish you co I ld. But I have been proven too many times that you can not. I should have put my guard up more when she was complaining of having issues with another breeder....
ah well such is life

 

[jvls1942]

Thanks guys ♡
yes Jim. That is such a Ling way to drive without a commitment.
It is also sad that it has come to that. That you can no longer trust to take a person for their word. I wish you co I ld. But I have been proven too many times that you can not. I should have put my guard up more when she was complaining of having issues with another breeder....
ah well such is life

IMHO , if that lady called me today, I would not sell anything to her..
If she has issues with another breeder, then she will find fault with you, too..
you don't need that..
there are still a lot of good people out there..
one will come along,,
patience, Grasshopper..

I told a guy flat out that I would not sell him one of my puppies..
long story leading up to that decision..


...........jiminwisc...........

 

[cuties]

I do believe that I will no longer sell to her. Some of the things she has said were very mean. I do not think she would be a bad chicken owner. But it is the principal.
I often wonder if people who are bored do this on purpose. Contact people and jerk them around?
anyway, I will easily sell the others.
I bet it is hard to tell someone flat out no. I can imagine the retaliation! !

 

[jvls1942]

I do believe that I will no longer sell to her. Some of the things she has said were very mean. I do not think she would be a bad chicken owner. But it is the principal.
I often wonder if people who are bored do this on purpose. Contact people and jerk them around?
anyway, I will easily sell the others.
I bet it is hard to tell someone flat out no. I can imagine the retaliation! !

You would not believe how many people do just that,, they have no intention of buying..
Or they reply on a whim, and then it is over by the next day..

It is not pleasant to say no, but you just have to be diplomatic and calm..
don't worry about what their reaction will be, because you will never have contact with them again..
which is not the case with the guy I told no to.. He understood where I am coming from and seemed to understand ..
He is the owner of that bad tempered female Maremma , and I said I was concerned that she would kill the pup.. after all, she bites her owner.. what would you expect ??

...........jiminwisc..........