WTH is wrong with TSC? Chick purchasing nightmare.

[mchl]

our farm and home store has hand sanitizer out and tells people to use it

 

[Jeeper1540]

I have a couple feed stores in my town. one is more family owned type, one is more like a corporation. the corporation one (CAL Ranch Stores) has a policy where you cannot touch the peepers, they even have netting strung over the feed troughs full of chicks. but when i told her [employee] i wanted 5 EE's that all looked different, she tried her darnedest to get all different colored EE's for me. at the other store (IFA Country Stores) you can pick them right out of the trough yourself. CAL said the new policy was because of a salmonella outbreak at a feed store last year or something. either way, i have never had to write down my info about who i was, where i lived, or how many chicks i was buying.

 

[BooBear]

Yes restrictions are no fun. Sorry the girl was rude to the OP.

However, I am glad that TSC has the panels up and someone watching out for these tiny critters reason being when the chick days started I have witnessed parents allowing their childern to behave badly with the little critters. Also, as biosecurity is important it makes sense for the new rules.

I do wish the employees are given a training course on how to properly care for new arrivals and how important it is to watch out for the ones that need help. I believe a short but informative course can be benificial for both TSC and the critters.

Also, it would be really nice if the employee in charge is required to know what breed is in each bin.

TSC does get more heat as they are the biggest outfit selling chicks, ducks, and rabbits.
That said, I would rather go to TSC for my feed than the local feed stores near me. Allot of the small owned local feed stores near me that I checked out were very dirty inside with layers of dust on the merchandise and the one I bought feed from once had bugs in the bag when I opened it.

Since that lesson I make sure to only buy from clean stores that show the folks working there care about the business.

TSC is always clean inside and I have never bought a bad bag of feed from them.

 

[Kathi D]

It makes sense to me to allow only employees to touch the chicks. I won't let just anyone come in and handle my babies--who knows what kind of germs they might have!

 

[b.hromada]

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This seems to be the new thing with all feed stores now.

 

[lostsoulhelpmejebus]

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I agree with you 200%

 

[Mommysongbird]

We were just at our local TSC the other day and they have put up fences around the brooders and you have to ask for assistance, I think it is to keep children out, but that doesn't help. They need to make the parents watch the children properly. My son is 9 years old and he is not allowed to pick up any of the chicks if I am not present and I watch him very closely.

When we were there the other day there were two other ladies there with younger children, maybe 6 and 3 or 4 and the older child kept squeezing the chicks. My son kept trying to show her how to hold them and then she would grab them by their little necks or wings. I thought she would kill them before we left. She even let a few jump out of her hands from up above the top of the brooder. Her mother or whom ever she was said nothing.

I told my son that it was time to go and we left.

 

[kerrysmommy]

i was at tsc and they had the chicks all in brroders and the man came up to me and it like are you looking or no becausee you cant look unless i am nxt to you so i walked away and hes like come back soon and im like mabey i wont cuz u r being rude!

 

[Smittenroade]

The gov needs to chill out on all these mandates and regs...Pretty soon we won't be able to have chickens without a liscence.

 

[ByeByeBlackBird]

I got six today at TSC and they did have them gated off, but the lady allowed me to pick my own, though she did mention that she WAS supposed to get them for me, she figured i knew what i wanted, it was just easier. I thanked her for it. I would have been frustrated at having to have her check each chick FOR me before i picked them. It was just simpler for me to look.

I dont think the new rules are such a bad thing though. i like them being gated off, they are better protected that way.