TillyChinchilla
Well-known member
This question is more for breeders that depend on adding outside stock to their herd, and for large breeders who sell herd improvement animals. Pet people please chime in too.
Has the condition of the economy, unemployment rates, etc - kept you from purchasing new animals (or for big breeders, dropped the number of herd improvement animals sold)?
If it has, why? If it hasn't, why?
Stores and business here are closing almost daily. We just lost two HUGE furniture places - a chain you probably have near you. A Wyndham resort calling center is closing, a huge chemical plant is cutting pay and firing hundreds.... etc. This is all within a 20 minute radius around me. And we can't deny there are more and more people needing homes for their chins due to job loss then I've seen online since I first got chins.
What is your POV from the financial side, and the chin side? I don't really have an opinion, but I suppose if I was in the position to be buying breeders, I wouldn't be for a while.
Has the condition of the economy, unemployment rates, etc - kept you from purchasing new animals (or for big breeders, dropped the number of herd improvement animals sold)?
If it has, why? If it hasn't, why?
Stores and business here are closing almost daily. We just lost two HUGE furniture places - a chain you probably have near you. A Wyndham resort calling center is closing, a huge chemical plant is cutting pay and firing hundreds.... etc. This is all within a 20 minute radius around me. And we can't deny there are more and more people needing homes for their chins due to job loss then I've seen online since I first got chins.
What is your POV from the financial side, and the chin side? I don't really have an opinion, but I suppose if I was in the position to be buying breeders, I wouldn't be for a while.