Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[CasieD]

Jim, maybe I should have you take care of the eggs I got from My Pet Chicken then! lol

After 3 emails and 17 days I finally got a response from them today. Basically telling me the whole shipped eggs are a gamble yada yada...

Their only offer to make it right was to give me 50% off another order of the same eggs from them! Why would I want eggs that I know get shipped from Gabbard, get packed poorly and have a fertility problem?? Sure send me more of them so they won't hatch either!

I sent off another email to them explaining that it was not acceptable and I'm aware of others that have had the same issues as I have had. We will see what happens next.

 

[jvls1942]

Jim, maybe I should have you take care of the eggs I got from My Pet Chicken then! lol

After 3 emails and 17 days I finally got a response from them today. Basically telling me the whole shipped eggs are a gamble yada yada...

Their only offer to make it right was to give me 50% off another order of the same eggs from them! Why would I want eggs that I know get shipped from Gabbard, get packed poorly and have a fertility problem?? Sure send me more of them so they won't hatch either!

I sent off another email to them explaining that it was not acceptable and I'm aware of others that have had the same issues as I have had. We will see what happens next.

I would love to go at it with them.. just let them inow that you are going to spread the word every chance you get.. when you get right down to it, eggs are eggs.. if they have enough to sell, then they have enough to replace your order.. no charge.. they are just out to make money..

tell them to ship the eggs, and then if any of them hatch, then you will pay the 50% charge..
I am getting the gut feeling that they don't even HAVE a rooster.. all they have is the excuse that shipped eggs are poor hatchers.. HeII, we all know that !!

Or, tell them that you would gladly accept 50% refund from the original order..

it is obvious that they don't care what you think or do.. like PT Barnum said, there is another sucker born every second..

good luck.........

 

[Dr HaHa]

Tom/Jim I too went through a lot grief with the irs. Getting the threatening letters. To make a very long story short I ended up with all my paperwork at their office in Wausau went through everything and the agent then tells me that he didn't have a tax table for that year and I'd get a notice in the mail. I was absolutely livid!!!!!! A few weeks later I got said notice and a check for $200. Turns out THEY OWED ME MONEY!

No wonder gov buildings get bombed. CD think I'd tell them that you won't be doing buisines with them and neither will anyone you know and you know a lot of people via BYC. Tom glad you had a good time with your DD but it so nice to have your quiet house again. Well it turns out that windows 8 is harder than 7 to set up Spent an hour and half just trying to get an E account for him and had to leave to get L before it was done. IDK! Lunch time!

 

[Tomski]

A good way to catch mice/rats without poison:

1 five gal bucket
1 piece of wood at least 1 inch wide and 3 feet long
1 gallon of winter windshield wash
1 metal coat hanger
1 can pop/beer
peanut butter
duct tape

1. Cut coat hanger and straighten so that it is long enough to lay over the top of the bucket

2. Drill or punch two holes in the center of top and bottom of can - big enough for the coat hanger to slide through. You want the can to be able to spin on the wire

3. Insert the wire through the can.

4. Lay the wire and the can over the bucket. The can needs to stay in the center. Use duct tape to build up two stops about an inch away from each end of the can or using a needle nose pliers, you can crimp the wire so that the can stays center. Make sure it's not too close to the can's edge or it will stop the can from spinning.

5. Use duct tape to attach the wire over the top of the bucket - or - you can drill two holes and insert the wire. Just make sure it's not going anywhere.

6. Smear peanut butter all over the spinning can

7. Pour the gallon of windshield washing fluid into the bucket

8. lean the stick up against the bucket.

The mice/rats will walk up the stick to get to the peanut butter. They will jump out to the can, the can will spin. The mouse will fall into the liquid and go to Mouse Heaven.

You can use water in the summer but during the winter you want something that doesn't freeze.

I WAS getting 3-4 mice a day for almost two weeks when I first set mine up. Now I'm only getting an occasional mouse - one a week or so. This works REALLY well and is simple to make.

 

[JustJohn]

A good way to catch mice/rats without poison:

1 five gal bucket
1 piece of wood at least 1 inch wide and 3 feet long
1 gallon of winter windshield wash
1 metal coat hanger
1 can pop/beer
peanut butter
duct tape

1. Cut coat hanger and straighten so that it is long enough to lay over the top of the bucket

2. Drill or punch two holes in the center of top and bottom of can - big enough for the coat hanger to slide through. You want the can to be able to spin on the wire

3. Insert the wire through the can.

4. Lay the wire and the can over the bucket. The can needs to stay in the center. Use duct tape to build up two stops about an inch away from each end of the can or using a needle nose pliers, you can crimp the wire so that the can stays center. Make sure it's not too close to the can's edge or it will stop the can from spinning.

5. Use duct tape to attach the wire over the top of the bucket - or - you can drill two holes and insert the wire. Just make sure it's not going anywhere.

6. Smear peanut butter all over the spinning can

7. Pour the gallon of windshield washing fluid into the bucket

8. lean the stick up against the bucket.

The mice/rats will walk up the stick to get to the peanut butter. They will jump out to the can, the can will spin. The mouse will fall into the liquid and go to Mouse Heaven.

You can use water in the summer but during the winter you want something that doesn't freeze.

I WAS getting 3-4 mice a day for almost two weeks when I first set mine up. Now I'm only getting an occasional mouse - one a week or so. This works REALLY well and is simple to make.

Tom

That is the same list of things that came in my DIY enhanced interrogationer kit. LOL

I gotta make me one of these! I don't have many mice, but I do love a little Mc Givering around when I can.

 

[kristip]

tomski...we do something similar in summer for the chipmunks that dive to our yard. Bucket that is half to three quarters full of water, wood plank up to bucket and a trail of bird seed up plank and covering top of water. I would say we got one or two a week with that method. Still plenty of them digging up our yard and rock walls.

 

[babylady4]

Tomski, I am soooooo sorry you had to deal with the IRS..... the ONE time my mom had an accountant do her taxes was the year the IRS decided to go after her. Of course, if the accountant screws up you are still responsible. The IRS made my mom produce her divorce papers from 35+ years ago, tried to tell her that my sister was not her kid... etc. etc. etc..... absolutely right about guilty until proven innocent.

Everyone has flown to coop so to speak. Back to normal tomorrow.

Fingers crossed nobody gets sick!!!!

 

[Celtic Chick]

Tom, I have 3 beautiful, young, friendly roosters in Townsend, just south of Frenchie, if you're interested. They are handled almost constantly by kids so they are very tame. 2 were hatched on Aug 19th and one on Sept. 20th.

Hey Heather, one of the gold orps is broody. She is very determined to hatch out a golf ball.

And no, you may not have Jack or Hershey.

The lavs I was referring to would be a male & a female, hence the term "a pair".

They hatched out on Oct. 18th.

Glad to hear L is feeling much better. She must be if she wants to exercise!

That is horrible about MPC, Casie. Don't they advertise on BYC? Make sure to tell them that you frequent the message boards here and will be more than happy to share your experience of their pathetic joke of a business to everyone. There is absolutely no reason why every single one of their eggs were unfertile/failed to develop other than what Jim said about them not having a rooster, or having a defective one. Wow, I'd be POed!

 

[bigzio]

Afternoon All.... Thanks for the complete explanation on building the doomed mices carnival ride tom ski! I just happen to have all the parts on hand ( i'll need to slam a cold one for a empty) not a prob with that though. It sounds like a great solution. I was always concerned about the chickens eating the poisoned sick mices, when using poison.

I agree with seperating the broody hens for hatching. I allowed a broody one year to hatch her young in the coop....bad outcome when the hens actually pecked the beeks off the day olds and the hen was very protective....worth the time and effort to move her to a safe place in my opinion. I realize some folks don't have a problem with it...just sayin.

You did a great job starting the chickenstock thread...just sayin...

I love hogs!

Out to build my carnival ride.... bigz

 

[delisha]

Woo Hoo! I finally have a chick out, unzipped this morning. Its one of the NJ I set for the NYD hatch but they seem to not have gotten the memo and are a couple days late to the party.

Congrats !!!!

I have one shipped chick out..finally..one..all of mine are done. I set 11 and got 7 so it was not to bad.
I checked the last of the eggs from the shipping and they are still active.

I sure hope they hatch.