WTH is wrong with TSC? Chick purchasing nightmare.

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

I agree that it is a good ideal to keep bratty kids from harming the chicks.

I also know how frustrating it is to the responsible ppl when the rules change. It is hard to make a new adjustment. I think as ppl get more used to the new set up, it will not be so bad. After all we want the chicks to be cared for properly.

 

[GhostRider65]

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THye do the same thing here in Shawno TSC, I had to fill out the paperwork , used my real name because they will know anyway because each friggen year I fill out a state form as too what animals I have, I seriously think is none of there GDBusiness, but supposedly iIt's incase of disease spread in our area. I think itr's just another way for The Government to keep tabs on us and what we have. makes me mad actually, but what can you do? Kim
Opps forgot no cage when I was there a week ago, will check next time I go to Shawno......... People at ours are very nice though not so smart about chickens, 1 gal asked me why I didn't take a certain chick I had picked up with pasty butt, I explained it was sick with PB and I had enough of them to clean everyday at home she just laughed stupid like but not mean. or rude because I selected another chick instead. I like our TSC here

 

[paddock36]

I just bought 6 pullets from their red pullets bin about a week ago. No body asked me for my information. The picked up the chicks but I didn't even ask, so I don't know if that would have been an issue or not. However, so far all my red pullets are feathering out white.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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Part of the problem is the way they keep them. Most TSCs I've been in keep them in stock tanks and many people act like it's a petting zoo. Many of the small feed stores where I've boughten chicks in the past kept them in commercial brooders, the type that stack up and roll around as one unit. They usually had one breed per brooder stacked 5 or 6 units high. Since they are small cages they are generally kid proof.

 

[TexasAggieOfc]

Texas State mandate my butt...

This year I have bought chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, guineas, and a rabbit.

Tractor Supply, Mount Pleasant, TX - Bought chicks and the rabbit. No notebook.
Tractor Supply, Greenville, TX - Bought chicks and ducks. They did have me sign "the notebook."
Atwood's Ranch Supply, Sulphur Springs, TX - Bought chicks, guineas, geese, and turkeys over multiple days for the last month. No notebook.
Ideal Poultry, Cameron, TX - Ordered chicks, ducks, and guineas. Not doing anything for a mandate, but I've guess they've got my info on file since it's mail order.

 

[cmtigger]

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I agree, yet she didn't say the gal was rude...

On the flip side of the coin I've seen employees abused by overly demanding customers that treat employees like peasants. (Not that that is the case here). The customer is not always right.

I could never work in retail. I'd end up choking somebody.

I worked in retail for 10 years. Some customers were great, others weren't. Some thought that as soon as you enforced company policy that you were singling them out and being rude. I once had a dad yell at me for telling his daughters that I was putting some plush toys away for the night so could they please not throw them?

But I agree, if that was a nightmare, the OP has a pretty good life. My feed stores around here all keep the chicks locked up from prying hands too. No knowing what illnesses a person could drag in. The employees at the local TSC are fine here too.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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It's part of this program: http://www.tahc.state.tx.us/animal_health/fowl_registration_brochure.pdf

Texas dealers are required to keep certain records on the sale of domestic fowl:

A key component for disease tracking or
surveillance is good record keeping.
Dealers must maintain and make available to
the TAHC all records for two years on the
sale, barter or exchange of domestic or
exotic fowl. Information that must be
collected includes:
• buyer’s and seller’s names and addresses,
• any movement or health status documents,
• transaction dates,
• number, breed, sex and description of the
birds.

 

[TexasAggieOfc]

Well it's not enforced uniformly and if the State is collecting information (even through a dealer), there's supposed to be a statement at the bottom of the page statitng that you have a right to know why the information is being requested and the right to correct incorrect information the state collects about you.

 

[Sword]

The TSC I got my chicks at was great. All the chicks were happy and healthy looking, and the employee who helped me with them obviously cared about the chicks and knew how to take care of them. I got to pick out my 11 little bantams. She asked some questions to make sure I knew what I was doing, not rude or "official store policy quiz" type of thing, just casual conversation "you already have a heat lamp?" or "You know some of them are going to be roosters, right?" kind of thing. I did have to do the paperwork thing, she said it was so that they could prove they were selling the chicks and not dumping them somewhere. It seems like a good reason to me.

 

[TexasAggieOfc]

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It's part of this program: http://www.tahc.state.tx.us/animal_health/fowl_registration_brochure.pdf

Texas dealers are required to keep certain records on the sale of domestic fowl:

A key component for disease tracking or
surveillance is good record keeping.
Dealers must maintain and make available to
the TAHC all records for two years on the
sale, barter or exchange of domestic or
exotic fowl. Information that must be
collected includes:
• buyer’s and seller’s names and addresses,
• any movement or health status documents,
• transaction dates,
• number, breed, sex and description of the
birds.

And... while I'm at it, an exemption is provided if the store is dealing with baby poultry from a NPIP hatchery. Now I know Atwoods in Sulphur Springs is getting theirs from Ideal, I would imagine the TSCs in Texas are too for the most part. Therefore, there is no reason to request or provide the information.