Tractor Supply: Crueler Than Ever to Chicks

[United Poultry Concerns]

United Poultry Concerns

6 March 2021

TRACTOR SUPPLY: CRUELER THAN EVER TO BABY CHICKS

Tractor Supply's animal cruelty must be challenged.

Dear Friends,

Since posting Protect Baby Chicks & Ducklings: Sign & Share Petition and

Ducklings & Baby Chicks are NOT Easter Toys! Take Action! in late February,

we've received emails from Tractor Supply visitors describing an increase in the

cruelty of this company's local stores, as summarized in the following email to

United Poultry Concerns, March 5, 2021:

  "I am not sure to whom I should file a complaint. Perhaps you can point me in

  the right direction. I went to Tractor Supply to pick up sunflower seeds and

  to my horror I saw baby chicks for sale in a new display that houses the

  chicks of different breeds stacked on top of each other and they are walking

  on wire mesh! It was very disturbing and quite different from how they were

  housed last year. There is no place for them to rest/sleep comfortably and

  they looked very stressed. Thank you very much for reading my email. Please

  let me know if there is anything I can do. I am a certified veterinary

  technician and understand farming and keeping chickens. This new setup at

  Tractor Supply is inhumane."

What Can I Do?

- Sign and share our Change.org petition to Tractor Supply, which includes

  direct contact information for the company CEO Hal Lawton. Sign & Share.

- Contact Mr. Lawton and tell him what you saw at your local store. Tell him the

  situation is inhumane and that you will not shop at Tractor Supply until it is

  rectified.

- Speak to the local store manager and urge that the store provide proper

  bedding, sheltered resting areas and other comforts for these suffering

  chicks.

- Post a comment. Each Tractor Supply store appears to have its own local

  Facebook page where it is advertising baby chicks for sale.

- Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper(s) about this inhumane

  situation.

- Alert your local humane society and urge them to intervene with the local

  Tractor Supply to help these chicks.

Tractor Supply and other farm supply stores are notoriously neglectful and

indifferent toward the chicks and ducklings they display and sell each spring in

thousands of local stores. This new way of keeping these baby birds, in stacked

drawers on wire mesh, exceeds even the traditional inhumaneness. In addition,

these stores are teaching customers by their example that such inhumane

treatment is acceptable, thus encouraging buyers to imitate the abuse.

Sign the Petition

Thank you for taking action.

United Poultry Concerns

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