SwampPrincessChick
Crowing
That is the first actually good Tractor Supply that I have ever heard about. Also, I know it's life that you have good and bad, but that doesn't mean anyone should let dying animals suffer without doing something.There are good employees that generally care and there are also bad employees that couldn't care less in every store. Thats life. The closest tsc will not hire anyone that doesn't have livestock themselves to make sure their employees care and can help customers with their animals. This is what has been explained to me:
They cannot have multiple bins with a few birds in them, the bins must be condensed in the event of power loss. If the original labels are lost, you cannot make new ones to avoid liability. Only verbal. Any employee that can't tell the difference isn't supposed to be handling birds except for customers who refuse to wait a few minutes for the captains. (Imho, if someone can't identify the breeds the want as chicks, they shouldn't be buying chicks and they shouldn't complain if the birds aren't right)
Mixed bins must contain obviously different birds to avoid mix up. ( but you know as well as I do that many colors and breeds look like each other as days old.)
The only help they can offer is pasty butt care and coaxing weak chicks to drink (which is a daily task) boost water, deformed and sick chicks are taken to a hospital bin in the office to either rest and recover or die peacefully. Deformed birds require a licensed vet to fix to avoid liability. They are often left in the front bins so they get a chance that someone who knows what their doing to buy them instead of just dying. If you've ever worked retail, you know how busy it gets, now add the fact half of the customer base expects immediate attention and and needs help with things that weigh 100s of pounds, now throw in a few dozen babies to take care of. Amd customers who are condescending and abusive to the employees or know it alls. , i.e yesterday there was a bin of 'mixed straight run' ducks that were obviously blue Swedish and the employee working the chicks cage couldn't convince the lady who wanted to buy them that they weren't white pekins, lady was very condescending that shes had Pekin for years and knew more than the employee.