Help! TSC gave me the wrong chicks!

[GirlsHuntToo]

Those do look like Marans. Don't be afraid to say I don't want that chick you are raising them.

 

[McChooky]

My husband and I had to get more chicken feed from TSC today, and a worker stopped to tell us chicks were on sale today because they were too old to be there still. We crumbled, and specifically asked for the remaining bantams, NOT the marans, please! Not that we don't like marans, but I already own one and she is a BIG girl! I was wanting bantams because they're smaller, and can be friends with our other lone bantam. Again, we specifically asked for the bantams, NOT the marans.

Yes, I understand I should've checked my phone first, which I tried to do, but have no service, so we just let the kid convince us "these are the bantams, they're just bigger because they're older."

Well, now I'm home and have reception, have been googling it, and these babies look exactly like 2 week old black copper marans!
Does anyone know if I call TSC and tell them what happened, would they allow me to buy the ACTUAL remaining bantams, even though there's only 2 left, since I just purchased these? Or would they make me buy 4 of them still?

Edit: sorry for the quality of pictures. They were all pretty tuckered out and didn't want to wake the others, but they look the same as this one.

Their policy is to make sure you have enough chicks to keep each other warm and for companionship. It can't hurt to call and find out

 

[Luckyeights86]

I'm going to guess your stuck with what they gave you. I would imagine they probably have some no return policy for live animals. They might give you replacement "bantams" free but tell you to keep the "wrong" birds.

But it's really on you to closely scrutinize what they give you. If you are wanting a specific breed and sex, you should have a real good idea how to identify yourself and not trust some clerk who probably never saw a baby chick until they got a job at TSC.

TSC will have 2-3 different breeds in the same trough. "Usually" they are different enough in color to correctly differentiate. But not always.

I prefer to buy from my local independent feed store. A mom and pop feed store that has been there forever with long term employees. The chicken lady there knows her birds and each breed is in a separate brooder so no mixing breeds.

I've gotten the "wrong" bird more than once at TSC. But even my local feed store gave me a rooster by mistake once. But that was the fault of the hatchery failing to sex them properly. It does happen.

Yeah, I totally agree that was on me. And I don't want to return the babies we got; I do want to get the bantams, though, if there are any remaining. Plus, yeah... My intuition is very strong typically, and I knew the kid was telling me the wrong thing, but let him convince us otherwise anyway should've just gone with my gut and at least asked for the other little guys in the same bin, too.

Luckily, my father-in-law is raising a bunch of chickens and has a lot more space than we do, and he said he would be happy to take some chicks off our hands if I decided to get more and we don't have space for all of them, so I might do that. It's helpful, too, in case we get some roosters, we know they'll have somewhere they can go to be taken care of. Regardless, I want those bantam babies! At least now that I'm home, I've been able to research and have a better idea of what kinds of bantams they carry, and what they should look like.

 

[Luckyeights86]

yeah, that's why I hatch my own. at least I know I'm getting straight run, as opposed to the only real hen in my Rhode Island Red's getting nabbed by a fox, (who later took her brother, I'm going to set a trap if it comes back again) and now I have a rooster. at least I can breed him with my Australorp to get a cool pattern.

I absolutely LOVE my Australorp chicken! She is my favorite, hands down. She's also our OG chicken, and I formed a bond with her when she was young, but they are just awesome chickens to have.
I would love to hatch our own, and want a rooster badly, but we do live in an HOA. There's nothing in the by-laws saying we can't have chickens, which is why we have them now, but I fear if we bring a rooster in, the HOA will throw a fit about the noise or some stupid thing. If one of these babies is a rooster, I may try to keep him around and see what happens, but we do have a fail-safe in place in case we can't keep them.

 

[rosemarythyme]

They do look like Marans, but as far as your store policy, I think it'd just depend on who you talk to. None of the feed stores I've been to have required number of chicks for purchase and I've been able to purchase a single chick before (specifying that I was replacing a culled male), but maybe it's because we don't seem to have a minimum number as a state policy. I don't shop at TSC though so if TSC has their own policy that's another matter.

 

[McChooky]

You've already purchased the required number (you're only adding to the first group) Call and ask the manager to save them so no one buys them before you show up

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Those do look like Marans. Don't be afraid to say I don't want that chick you are raising them.

Doesn't work like that. Those chixks were bought and left the store. They are no longer TSCs problem, they won't just take them back because someone changed their mind or didn't end up with what they thought they were getting

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

Doesn't work like that. Those chixks were bought and left the store. They are no longer TSCs problem, they won't just take them back because someone changed their mind or didn't end up with what they thought they were getting

No I mean when they are boxing them up at the store before you paid for them. You can say I don't like that one and they have always put them back and went for a different one.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

No I mean when they are boxing them up at the store before you paid for them. You can say I don't like that one and they have always put them back and went for a different one.

Ah, okay. I thought you meant "I don't want this chick, you need to take it back and raise them"

 

[Luckyeights86]

Doesn't work like that. Those chixks were bought and left the store. They are no longer TSCs problem, they won't just take them back because someone changed their mind or didn't end up with what they thought they were getting

I don't want to return the marans! I just wanted the bantams, in addition, to be clear!