macksmom98
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Myself and my friend have been having local animal sell/swap/shop events at our local tractor supply stores. Its a free thing that they let us do in there parking lot, and basically its everyone for themselves. We do not charge vendors or have any rules or parameters to participate. No one is responsible or liable for anyone elses transactions, and its all local breeders. Problem I ran into this weekend is a person selling 4 week old dutch kits. Overall, I do not want to loose any privileges or for our cause to get a bad name. Myself, I will not sell them that young. I just feel like some unsuspecting people bought them and probably didn't know any better. Her logic is always that well the mom can have a new litter in 30 days, so that must mean they can do ok on their own. I know there are conflicting views on when to wean, but I also know that most breeders will have a problem with this. It came up in discussion and to the point where our new rabbit club wanted to make sure that they were not being seen as any kind of sponsor for these events. I felt like they were very attractive to buyers because they were so little and cute, and that breeders with older kits were overlooked because of this too. This person is a friend of mine, and I just need to either be ok with her doing business her way and dealing with her own consequences or to find a way to stop her nicely, by showing her its illegal at that age or something. She sells day old chicks that she hatches too, and overall has a colony style bunny set up that she looks at from more of a naturalistic point of view.....how would you all handle it?