WTH is wrong with TSC? Chick purchasing nightmare.

[chick-n-momma]

Same with my TSC in Maryland. When they first brought the chicks out this year they were in open bins but the last week or so they have been locked up tighter than Fort Knox! They guys at my TSC are super nice though. He picked up every single chick the other day untill I had the ones I wanted

. But I did not have to give any info to purchase them.....

 

[Higins00]

I think it is a good idea to have the chicks eat and drink before they go off. I would want mine to be healthy eating and drinking. I had to sign in when I got my chicks. And I'm glad they don't let just anybody's hand in the bins. My friends place has some type of bird flu going on, if they allowed her to pick up her own chicks she could have spread that to all those chicks. Then mine could have gotten it. Plus those kids handling them and dropping them back in could hurt them. Seems reasonable to me, I just wish they new more about the chicks they were selling.

 

[ih66series]

Yeah.....they put gates up around the chicks here too.

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

I'll stick with hatching the chicks I want.
I went to look at the chicks our TSC had last week and even the bantams all looked the same. At that time they had them in cattle water tanks as brooders. I'll have to go check tomorrow and see if they changed their set-up. I need to get some chick starter anyways. I'll let you know what I find out at our TSC.

 

[Baymule]

ChickinTexas, I am in east Texas and the TSC here has gated off the chicks and rabbits too, which is certainly better for the animals. It is NOT a state law to leave info. They are nuts. From now on, go to your local friendly feed store, I did and I am real happy with my chicks and how I was treated as a customer. Do business with a local small business and to heck with the big corporation.

Not only that, but at the feed store the chicks are labeled by breed, not a hodge podge of mixed up everything.

 

[shamblescross]

You can't really be angry at the employees for following the rules put down by their employer. Would you rather have the chicks manhandled by kids and careless adults, or not be able to pick at them yourself? If the store policies are bent for one person, why not another? And, 9 times out of 10, the employees are more likely to take requests from a customer who gives them a little respect.
Yes, my local TSC put the chicks behind an enclosure, but it didn't bother me too much. No, they didn't make me sign a notebook or anything, but that could be a local thing, or on a trial basis from the company.
(yes, I was a manager for a company that had odd rules that they changed regularly. and not many customers would accept it when I tried to explain.)

 

[Azriel]

WOW, you guys must have bad TSC stores, at mine they do have the locked gates arround them, and with the way people do not watch their kids, I guess I thnk thats good, but, everyone at my TSC was great, and I was able to get my own chicks, and they did not have any kind of book I had to fill anything out in. I am in there weekly, and everyone knows me by name, but I don't think its any different for any other customers.

 

[starlingk]

Here is Commerce GA they had the bins open two weeks ago when I bought our first chicks, but they were corralled when I went back this week. Something must have happened to make them change policy across the board. I did have to fill out the form, which they said was "law". I guess they didn't specify whose "law"

 

[Higins00]

I took a chick that wasn't doing to good to try and save it. When it died, I went back to the store and they looked up my name on the sheet of paper I signed to see if I really purchased them and gave me a replacement chick. Maybe that's what it is for.

 

[WitksChicks]

This may all be due to a petition going around to Request TSC to Post Notifications Regarding Chicks. Here's a link to the info: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tscchicknotification/