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Cackle Hatchery
Has anyone ordered from Cackle Hatchery? What was your experience? Six weeks ago I placed an order for chickens, ducks and geese. They were due to arrive yesterday. When the shipment did not come I tried to call the hatchery. The lines were busy the entire day, and I do mean the entire day. I tried going through their website, with no luck. Today after trying the entire day, I got their after hours answering service and received the message to not ask about an order as they were doing their best to fill orders. I could leave a message requesting a catalog only. However, the answering machine was full and no longer taking messages.
So, my credit card has been charged, I did not get my order and have no way other than writing a fax to get in touch with them. I seriously doubt they would read a fax, based on their level of customer service.
Am I ripped off or what? I am so upset. Advice from anyone?
I live about 25 miles from Cackle Hatchery.I don't think you are ripped off.They were really backed up on orders a month ago.Your order will come,maybe just later.They were backordered on Ameracaunas if that is what you ordered,that could be the reason.Posy Pet
Thanks so much for letting me know. I had to take a day from work to go to the post office and wait for chicks to arrive. When it was a no show I had to take off another day. I can't afford to take the third day, so when the chicks come, they will have to sit at the post office from 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM. I hope all my chicks, ducks and geese will be ok. And thanks again!!! You made me feel better.
Cackle has a great reputation and has been around for many years. I'd suspect that they are just hyper busy getting chicks out so the phones suffer. :) Although it sucks to be taking so much time off work!
I'm sure the PO will call you when the chicks arrive, even if it's 2AM--no one can ignore that peeping box of chicks, Heavens knows! *L*
Velvet ~:>
Just wanted to let everyone know... my box of joy arrived. I am so happy to get them. I have 48 chicks, 6 geese and 6 ducks. They are all absolutely beautiful. One peep was DOA and another seems weak. Other than that, things are just perfect. I have raised chicks for several years and have bought grown geese and baby ducks. Having three species to raise is going to be a hoot. Thanks for your encouraging words. Life is good again!!!!
My chicks and geese are dieing. I have lost 4 baby chicks and now a baby goose has died. The chicks, ducks and geese all have their seperate boxes, complete with wood shavings and a heat lamp. They have plenty of food and water. I am constantly checking, but do not handle them except when changing the beding.
The first chick was dead on arrival, 3 more have died and now a goose, all in 4 days. They seemed healthy, so I don't know what went wrong.
This is not my first time to raise poultry, but my first time to have such bad luck. I have tried to get Cackle Hatchery by phone, email and fax. Phone lines are busy, email doesn't go through and the fax # just keeps ringing and does not go through. Does anyone have an idea as to what I should do? I am so heartbroken, as I really love these little guys.
Hi southern magnolia, Did you use this e-mail:
I am sorry to hear about all your losses - I had problems this year with a hatchery, not Cackle, I lost nine - but the hatchery replaced. What a sad time for you :( I understand how you feel. You could try sending them a certified letter letting them know of your losses w/a phone# so that they can contact you and also letting them know of the problems that you are having in contacting them by e-mail, fax and phone. They would have to sign for the letter - at least you would know that they had received your letter - no gauarantees, just a thought that I had. I hope this is of some help. Oh and another thought - have you tried to fax or e-mail after hours? Maybe it would go through and then they would contact you the next business day or two?
Fantastic idea! I will send a certified letter. Whether they replace or not, who knows!! I am so unimpressed with their customer service. We had always used McMurray, but they required an order of 25 geese. Cackle lets you place small orders and are much cheaper as well. Guess I learned a lesson, stick with what works.
It is amazing how quickly you can become emotionally involved with the little guys. The last two years I bought my chicks at a poultry auction. They were a little older and did great. These chicks, ducks and geese are so tiny and helpless looking. Husband and I will probably be up most of the night checking on them. Hope we don't fall asleep in church tomorrow.
I really appreciate your help. I am so glad I found this forum and am able to connect with such a knowledgable, friendly group.
I lost a bunch of birds this spring, I didn't order from cackle though, it was another hatchery. I lost a total of 5 chicks, one duck and one turkey poult. :( They did refund my money on the ones I told them about that were doa or died within 48 hours. I just wish they had used heating packs, because the temperatures got really cold when they had shipped them.
So sorry to hear of your bad luck with the baby poultry. It doesn't help now, but in future, you might want to consider Ideal Poultry in Cameron, Texas. We live just down the road a piece from them and got our chicks there--all survived and are laying eggs like crazy! They ship, and I believe they do not have a minimum order, but include a few "freebies" to keep the others warm. They have a good website, and are customer friendly.
Anyone who enjoys and cares for their poultry as you do deserves a good experience!
Well, no more lost chicks or goslings. I sent Cackle a certified letter Monday morning, but no answer yet. I had hoped for an email, but it could be a little early to get a response. Based on the customer service so far, I doubt I will get a response.
I like the suggestion to try Ideal. My next great adventure will be to try my hand with baby turkeys. I will check out Ideal for that.
After my escapade with Eleanor the goose and convincing a vet to treat her for worms, I am very much indebted to all of you. My vet did not suggest worming Eleanor, but I insisted because of what I had learned on this board. It seemed to solve her problem and she is happily ruling the barnyard with her husband Theodore.
This is my fourth year of farm life and I totally, totally love it. I feel like I've found a secret part of myself that I didn't know existed. One more year till retirement and I will be home at GloryBe Farm, full time. Can't wait!
Believe me, retiring to a farm is a wonderful way to spend your golden years (as long as you don't mind hard work, sweating and taking time to wave to passing neighbors!). You will be so happy to be a full-timer.
If you want to see our little farm and what we are doing, including pictures of our hens, our website is www.rgf-tx.com and make yourself welcome at Red Gate Farm. We aren't selling anything--just want to share our wonderful experiences!
It has been 10 days since I sent Cackle Hatchery a certified letter.No response. Since then another gosling and a chick have died. One of my cuckoos has a leg that sticks straight out. I inspected it and two of its toes are turned the wrong way.
I don't want to run down anyone's business, but wow, this is not a place for customer service. Really, I don't expect to get a refund, or replacements. I am just sad that a hatchery has such poor business practices.
I must be under a dark cloud. Monday something attacked and killed my two toulese geese, Eleanor and Theodore. My pekin ducks were also killed. We have no idea what predator did this. There were no tracks. Whatever it was ate the head of the geese, which might give a clue to the more experienced farmer. We live in an area surrounded by a forest. We have seen bobcats and possums before.
All my hens live in a very large fenced in area that is covered. So far they have been safe.
I am really bummed out about this and have cried my eyes out. Hopefully this new group of geese and ducks will make it. They will live in an enclosed area. No more free ranging for my sweeties.
lots of things will take just the head. You have to keep them safe at night.
ducks and geese do not want to go indoors at night and tend to get killed at night.
chickens tend to go into a hen house at night and stay safe. It must be a very solid house. no cracks or ability to dig inside etc. Mine had a solid plywood floor. solid all around.
new hatches do not eat so can be shipped however they make a product that holds water so as to get them to take in water after you receive them. If you had the right product you might not have lost any birds. this product is sold exactly for the problem you had.
Texas is just a long delivery. The problem is not the birds. it is the travel and distance. They arrive dehydrated. They must take in a lot of water quick.
Big geese can fight off preditors some. However, when they sit on the nest they will die. the preditor will eat their head on the nest. The goose and duck will not leave the nest and will die. It is terrible. They must be locked up tight at night. and ducks and geese do not want to sleep in a house. They want to be outdoors. A real problem.
Fox will do it and they are extremely hard to stop or catch. You are in big trouble if you have fox, cayotes.
Massachusetts has mountain lions. Try to stop that and you break the laws. Any mountain lion is much more valuable then some chickens ducks and geese.
I can understand your frustration. I have ordered from the hatchery 2 times this year and each time was a very pleasant experience. It did take a long time to get through but I did. The woman i spoke to was awesome.. she knew so much! She was so happy and cheerful I wish i could remember her name and recommend her to you guys, I asked her about the DOA ( dead on arrival) she said that they offer you a full refund or a reship. And she said that if any of my babies were looking sick to call back fax or email and someone will get back to you and they can help you get them back in good health and if the reps couldn't figure it out that they had a poultry expert who could!! Well i got my order followed my care sheet and everything went great! I faxed in one day when i couldn't reach them to make an order for guineas and they got back to me that day they told me that they had 9 PHONE LINES and they never stopped, I feel for the girls I couldn't do what they do! After getting some information on them I had to think it over and talk to my husband about it. I then placed an order online and got a conformation back in 5 days( I was expecting 10! because of how busy they are). I am really impressed with the service and I will order again! Mongolia as a suggestion you may want to fax them and have them call you and even though it has been awhile Im sure they will understand and help you out.
I feel bad for you losing your birds to predators, Magnolia! It could have also been a raccoon, I had one sneak in when I was late closing up my birds at night, it had killed a bunch of my guinea poults that had been enclosed behind chicken wire. We are having more problems this year because my husband hasn't gotten the tractor from his dad yet, and our one lawn mower we have (it's a crappy old sears push mower) takes forever to mow, and the grass is super high, we have a lot of area to mow and you gotta be careful when you mow because if it's too tall it'll stall the mower. We have a lot of brush and grass growing up closer to the house than normal, so this gives the predators a lot more cover than usual. I had a fox try to snatch a guinea hen this year, and that has never happened ever! Maybe try to keep everything mowed, and keep the brush down so they don't have many places to hide.
I also do this to get my guineas in at night if they are being a pain in the butt going inside (they would rather roost in the trees). I either don't feed them much or at all in the mornings when I let them out. Then when it's getting late, I rattle the feed bucket and they follow me right inside the coop where they know they'll get fed. Or, to train them to go inside, I get two long sticks, and herd them into the coop. It helps to have feed in there already, so they stay in the coop when you get them in there. I can't let any of my birds stay outside at night, or else they may be gone in the morning, permanently. We have a dog, but he takes off if we let him loose, and he knows how to dig under fences...my husband built him a nice big enclosed run, and what does he do, he digs under it, takes off, then eats road kill and returns the next day. Grr!!
Such is farm life, you never know what's gonna happen. There's always something nutty going on, lol! Even though there are some serious disappointments and bad stuff that happens, there is a lot of fun stuff too, I always enjoy watching my birds, and it's so cool to see the hens hatch a new brood. I love being able to sometimes hear a whippoorwill in the distance, and taking a walk in the woods and see everything all lush and green. This spring we even found some morels!
I have received several private emails regarding my cackle hatchery experience. So sorry, but my server (netzero) has fire walls galore and I am not able to answer you. So, just to bring everyone up to date, it has been a month since I sent Cackle a letter. No response whatsoever. I tried calling again today and the line was busy. I tried emailing them from work, but it bounced back. So, I wrote another letter and sent it certified. I will be notified when someone signs to receive the letter. This is the second certified letter. First one, husband didn't pay the extra postage to get a return receipt. But, it probably would not have made a difference.
One of the cuckoos and one pekin duck have very bad legs. The duck is splayed, but the cuckoo's leg sticks straight out, no bend in it at all. Imagine the letter "L", thats how it looks. I wish the little guy would go to chicken heaven as he can't stand unless he props himself against something.
Altogether, from this order I have lost 2 geese and 6 chicks. This was a large order ($184) for me, but probably small by most standards.
One other thing, we discovered our dog dug under the fence and went into the barn yard. She was the culprit that killed my geese and ducks. She had killed poultry before. The dog had hip displaysia, and the vet said it was time to put her down. Guess that solves that problem, but I sure miss my dog.
I did some investigating for you and sent an e-mail to Cackle Hatchery, this is what I said: I have been to your website and browsed extensively,I like what I see, however I have a farmer friend that ordered from you and she has had many problems with her chick-dying from day one of delivery and so on. She has tried to contact you in several ways, including a certified letter and after 2 months she has still not heard from you and her problem has not been resolved. My concern is that if I order from you, is that the treatment I should expect? I hope that someone will reply to this e-mail in a positive and timely manner-I am wanting to purchase from you, but after hearing about the above problem you can understand my concern.
Six Days later I received this reply(from CackleHatchery): Thank you for taking the time to ask me about this. We have been swamped with orders this year. We appreciate that but makes it hard to give the customer service that we would like to give. I don't remember getting a certified letter but that don't mean that I didn't. Tell them to be patient and if they don't hear in a week or 2, to send an e-mail or have you (me)send one.
This is then signed by: Nancy (from Cacklehatchery)
Sorry that this was so long - but I wanted you to know what was said on both sides. I just wanted to try and help you in anyway that I could. Let me know if I can be of anymore help The e-mail from them (cacklehatchery) was received on June 2.
Nelda, You are a love! Thank you so much. I am amazed that someone would do this for a stranger.
We will see if Cackle responds to the second certified letter. I have heard a lot of good things about Cackle and if this problem is resolved I might consider ordering again next spring. I can understand they are flooded with orders, but a business has a responsibility to provide service. Maybe the moral of this story is to not extend yourself to the point that you neglect customers.
Thanks again. I tried to email you directly, but the firewall my server has will not allow it.
Hey you, no thanks needed -but you are welcome. I am glad to help out - you are not a stranger! You are a fast friend. Just let me know what I can do to help - yes, we will see if they respond to you and if they don't I will e-mail them for you. Why they are e-mailing so quickly? and not you? Who knows - maybe they just want my business - but it does not matter! Actually, It might be a good thing - maybe I really will order from them if they will just do the right thing and fix your problem - I too understand they are swamped - but good business (customer service) has to count, it has to become a priority. I will PM you on a different e-mail if I can, as soon as I figure out how to do that - if not just keep me informed from here-put it on your calendar-2 weeks from now or sooner.
Hello all. I ordered from Cackle Hatchery back in Jan. of this year. The Credit Card was charged immediately (of course). Cackle Hatchery advertised blue cochins. I bought and paid for blue cochins. After weeks go by...I tried to call them and I either never got an answer or I always got the run around. It was always some excuse to way they could not send my order. Finally months later I got 6 Blue Cochins with 24 Black Cochins!!! I can not get Cackle Hatchery to respond at all now!
So buyer beware of Cackle Hatchery!!!!
I bought 6 baby chicks from My Pet Chicken hatchery just 1 week ago and they are all doing great, eating and drinking and pooping. Try them next time for small orders, they are in Ct. and they arrived when they said they would...
The postman special delivered them to the house.
I have ordered from a variety of hatcheries, as well as hatched my own chicks over the years. In general, I have found chicks from Murray McMurray to be the most vigorous. Perhaps this is because their breeding stock is so hardy? Sometimes, however, the chicks are not true to breed. If that's not an issue for you, then it doesn't matter. I have ordered specific breeds from Cackle that I could not get elsewhere. I got chicks this spring (2010) from them. Some were actually showable when they matured, but they were not very hardy. I ordered 24, they shipped 28. Three were DOA, 3 more died the first week, one was blind from the start, but I saved him and he's a nice bird, another has a wry tail. Judging by their wing feathers I believe some of the babies may have been older than 2 or 3 days when they were shipped, perhaps to fill my special order, and being in transit just was more stress than they could take. Also, show quality birds are generally more fragile as chicks. I didn't have to contact Cackle, but unless I got a wrong order I probably wouldn't have done so anyway. With the blue Cochins, you do know that only some birds from a blue line are actually blue, right? Some are black and some are white.
We ordered bantams from Cackle this year (first time to try them - we normally order from Murray McMurray or purchase from our farm supply store in town). I have raised chicks for many years and have never had trouble like this. We lost 6 chicks (out of 30) the first 1 1/2 weeks. These little guys were quite weak, failed to gain and thrive - were not active from the start. I used the same vitamin ratio I always use with chicks - normally to great success as I believe it helps get them over the stress of shipping sooner. The failing chicks were frequently pasted up and required much attention.(Pasting is not uncommon, but I have not seen it in my previous chicks past their first couple of days at home). While the rest are now doing quite well, I will not order from this hatchery again. I found the customer service to be friendly when I ordered. I too, found that some of my chicks appeared to be older than advertised as indicated by feathers.
So sorry to hear you have not heard back from Cackle Hatchery. My experience was horrible. Most of my geese and ducks died. My Rhode Island Reds were some sort of a bantam mix. After two registered letters, and numerous attempts to reach them by phone, email, etc. I finally got a representative on the line. She said the reason my RIRs looked different was because they sold a commercial breed, not a domestic breed. What hog wash!! I lost most of my order as they were not healthy enough to live.
I have raised a lot of poultry, but that was the worst of the worst. For myself, I could not recommend them to anyone.
Ordered from cackle this spring and got my chicks end of April. Ordered 15 bantams and got 17. First time having chickens. No casualties and beautiful birds. Also very friendly and let my 22 month old and 3.5 year old hold them.
They are now 7 weeks old.
I would def. Order from them again.
A lot can happen during shipping..
Here is a link that might be useful: My chicks
I ordered 65 chicks (rare breeds) from Cackle Hatchery and when they arrived they were jam packed into 3 compartments with 30+ chicks smashed/crowded into the 1 compartment of a 4 compartment box for the 65 + chicks. There were 30 of them which were dead on arrival. I contacted the company immediately and they said they would replace them. Today I am waiting for the shipment date of arrival tomorrow or the next day. From the 65+ chicks I have 10 live ones after two months. I have followed all the directions to a "T" and hopefully will not have any more losses. I tried Sulmet, vinegar water,as they suggested,and then put them on antibiotics which seemed to work somewhat. I just read an article where the author had experienced the same problem and he advised to keep the chicks on medicated chick starter mash until adulthood.
I will try this..............time will tell.
How true Tammy. I've seen boxes of live baby chicks sitting on one of those luggage carts outside on the tarmac waiting to be loaded on the plane for a couple of hours in the hot Oklahoma sun. (we were waiting on a plane to land, so had plenty of time to sit around and watch the airline carelessly abuse baby birds)
There are several causes of bent legs.
Congenital; which isn't likely or they would have been crippled when you first opened the box. It's extremely rare for a hatchery to send out a chick like that, because the condition is so noticeable they're culled at the hatchery.
Poor footing; if the birds are trying to walk on a slick surface, (like newspaper or straw) their legs can slip out from under them stressing their tendons and they'll end up permanently crippled.
Or, most likely, feeding issues: this shows up when the birds are several weeks old. People are advised to use a medicated starter to prevent cocci, but waterfowl especially eat too much and overdose on it. The active ingredient destroys the B vitamins which leads to slipped tendons and weak joints. Baby chicks can end up with curled toes as well as bent legs. If you're giving medicated chick starter do NOT add anything else to the water, and if you have waterfowl, get a bag of Purina Flock Starter which is not medicated. Perfect for guineas, ducks, geese, turkeys (and chicks)
I've been raising chickens for over 25 years now, and I'm sorry to tell you that after the first 72 hours, if you have dying baby birds it's probably your own fault, *maybe* you can blame stress from shipping, but certainly not the hatchery. And for the person who was wondering, no, hatcheries don't hold over chicks from week to week to make up a special order. The chick has about a 72 hour window after hatching that it can be shipped without food or water because it's still digesting the yolk that was absorbed into it's abdomen right before hatching. When you have birds with longer feathers than others in a batch of straight run chicks, they're probably from two different lines, one that is slow feathering, the other fast feathering. They're both useful to keep around because when crossing the males of one line over the females of the other because in many cases you can feather sex the males from the females as soon as they hatch.
And, FWIW, the first chicks I ever ordered came from Cackle, and over the years I've ordered from them several times at different times of the year. Always arrived healthy and lively and spaced correctly in the box. I recommend them to anyone looking to start out in chickens with a breed that isn't available at the local feed store. McMurray is also good, though a tad more pricey. between the two, you can get a start in just about any breed you fancy, and while they won't be top show quality birds, they'll MOL look like what they're supposed to be.
Magnolia, the people at Cackle told you their RIR are "commercial" or "production" stock because they are. That's what ALL hatcheries carry as a RIR. There is no such thing as a "domestic" class of chickens, just commercial (production) and show quality. No hatchery carries show quality RIR because the breed is difficult to get right according to the Standard of Perfection, and it's not worth their trouble selling chicks as cheaply as they do. That doesn't mean they aren't RIR, only that you should expect faults. As they say, You gets what you pays for. ;^) If you're looking for real RIR, contact the RIR club and ask for a breeder's list.
Here is a link that might be useful: Feather sexing chicks
"I've been raising chickens for over 25 years now, and I'm sorry to tell you that after the first 72 hours, if you have dying baby birds it's probably your own fault, *maybe* you can blame stress from shipping, but certainly not the hatchery."
I have to respectfully disagree that the hatchery cannot be blamed. Granted, with many hatcheries that is true, but Cackle has the worst reputation in the nation for sending out sick and infected chicks. There are even necropsy done by vets confirming this - but Cackle continues to ignore the faxed reports, emails, letters, and/or phone calls. What makes this really bad is not only does this result in you waking up and finding yet another one of the chicks you just bought dead every day or so until they are all dead, but that it will also spread to your existing flock and depending on your operation, could end up costing you hundreds of dollars, if not more, to get it all cleaned up. Cackle is super friendly...that is, until they get your hard earned dollars. But as soon as your money hits their hands, their customer service becomes non-existent.
It's sad, because years ago Cackle used to be one of the best in the business, IMHO. Three generations of my family have purchased many a bird from Cackle over the years and customer service was always top-notch even after the sale. But in recent years the company has gone completely down hill, and for the safety of our farm we can no longer risk doing business with them. Unfortunately that's what happens to many a business when the founder is no longer around and those that take over have no ethics. :(
When it comes to buying animals, I can't stress enough to DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE YOU BUY. Ask around. Check the BBB. Search the net to see if others who have done business with the business have had any problems, unresolved or otherwise. Ask the business or seller if testing has been done (tests depend on the species), and if so, make sure you get to see the actual lab results (too many a person's word no longer means what it used to) BEFORE you hand over one red cent. This goes for private sales too. Because the last thing you want are sick or diseased animals on your property.


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A Russian-American writer who died 30 years ago is still selling hundreds of thousands of books a year, and this week one of her former devotees, Paul Ryan, became Mitt Romney's running mate in the US presidential election. So why is Ayn Rand and her most famous work, Atlas Shrugged, so popular?
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Hank Rearden is a steel magnate who finds his ability to produce is continually limited by over-regulating lawmakers who seize the property of capitalists in order to redistribute the country's wealth. Rearden's struggle, clearly articulated when he appears in court, illustrates the over-reaching of government and the dangers of altruism. |
"I work for nothing but my own profit, which I make by selling a product they need to men who are willing and able to buy it. I do not produce it for their benefit at the expense of mine, and they do not buy it for my benefit... we deal as equals by mutual consent to mutual advantage - and I am proud of every penny I have earned in this matter." |
Francisco d'Anconia is a childhood friend and first love of Dagny's, also an heir to the world's biggest copper company. But he deliberately runs down his company to keep it out of state hands. |
"There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value." |
Rand herself saw this struggle play out in the most traumatic way.
Born into a Jewish family called Rosenbaum in St Petersburg, she was just 12 when she witnessed her father's pharmacy being seized by the Bolsheviks.
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Ayn Rand has become shorthand in popular culture for "ruthless selfishness, intellectual precocity, or both", says historian Jennifer Burns in her Rand biography Goddess of the Market.
In Mad Men, Bertram Cooper, senior partner at ad agency Sterling Cooper, is an avowed Ayn Rand fan. While giving his protege Don Draper a hefty bonus, he encourages him to read Atlas Shrugged. "Take $1.99 out of that $2,500 and buy yourself a copy."
In Dirty Dancing, womanising waiter Robbie urges Baby to read The Fountainhead as she confronts him about getting dancer Penny pregnant. "Some people count and some people don't," he shrugs.
"Ooo, The Fountainhead!" coos Marge appreciatively in The Simpsons. "Mom! Isn't that book the bible of right-wing losers?" chides daughter Lisa.
A previous Simpsons episode saw Maggie placed at the Ayn Rand School for Tots, where "A means A".
"Many scenes from Atlas Shrugged are transmuted and re-enacted scenes from Rand's childhood," says biographer Anne Heller. "When the government comes to take Hank Rearden's patent from him and he refuses, that is what she wished would have happened to her father."
She never forgot that injustice and humiliation, says Heller, author of Ayn Rand and the World She Made, even when she arrived in the US eight years later.
"They [her family] were told it was for the good of the people, but she saw that people who worked hard like her father had to sacrifice years of hard work for people she thought had not educated themselves. She saw the same forces at work in the US when FDR's New Deal got a foothold."
Her novel, The Fountainhead, about an architect, was a word-of-mouth success and made into a film starring Gary Cooper.
It drew a committed group of supporters to Rand, some of whom gathered every Saturday at her New York apartment to read extracts from her next book. Among them was an economic forecaster called Alan Greenspan, who became her close friend and eventually chairman of the US Federal Reserve.
Despite this dedicated following, reviews of Atlas Shrugged in 1957 were not favourable, and its message united both left and right in condemnation. Gore Vidal described it as "almost perfect in its immorality".
Atlas Shrugged inspired me
I read Atlas Shrugged when I was 26 and it connected with me greatly, especially the heroine. I identified with Dagny Taggart, the way she was very good at her job. A year later, when I was setting up the company and discussing with someone who also read the book what it should be named, the answer was John Galt, because of the way he represented the coming together of great minds.
We have a lot of strong-minded, independent individuals and each individual has a goal on a team, but we are all moving in the same direction.
But this didn't stop it from becoming an international bestseller, as millions were drawn to her central message of individualism and unfettered capitalism, even if they didn't buy into her whole philosophy. In the 1990s, a survey by the Library of Congress named Atlas Shrugged as the most influential book in the US, after the Bible.
And more than 50 years after publication, sales are booming. According to Nielsen BookScan, more than 300,000 copies were sold in the US in 2009, pushing sales for all her works past the half-million mark that year.
The extent of her influence was demonstrated this week when Paul Ryan joined the Mitt Romney ticket, although he has now distanced himself from her work.
In 2005, Ryan told the Atlas Society how Rand "taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are". But earlier this year, he told the National Review that as a Catholic he rejected her atheism.
Beyond politics, the novel also had an impact in Silicon Valley, where entrepreneurs identified with its emphasis on heroic individuals and their work ethic. Some have named their companies or their newborn children after the author or her characters.
Rand's popularity is not confined to the US, however, with healthy book sales in the UK, India, Australia, Italy and South Africa.
But she speaks most directly to American conservatives, says Timothy Stanley, a British historian at the University of Oxford who writes about US politics for the Daily Telegraph.
"American Conservatism is fundamentally about the relationship between the individual and the community, about jealously protecting the individual's liberty.
"British Conservativism is about the Queen, the Anglican Church and rituals like tea. It's less about the economy or your relationship with government, so there is very little in Ayn Rand that they could identify with."
Rand's views
- Unfettered markets
- Civil rights
- Right to choose (abortion)
- Sexual freedom
- Homosexuality
- Welfare
- Beards and moustaches
- Robin Hood
- Religion
- Vietnam War/miltary draft
- Income tax
Paul Ryan genuinely fell out of love with Randian ideas, says Stanley, and that comes with age.
"Atlas Shrugged was a very exciting book to read when you're young but then you grow up and get a family and develop a relationship with God.
"Rand teaches you that the individual is in complete control of their life and adolescents are terrified of being told what to do.
"She tells students that when they leave college they will work for liberals who will take their taxes and don't know anything. She massages the egos of juveniles."
The emergence of the Tea Party - a wing of the Republican Party which favours a shrinking of the state - appears to be driving her recent resurgence. John Galt is often referred to on placards and T-shirts.
"She's become a more dominant influence than she's ever been and that's bad because she's made it cool to be selfish. It's bad for the people outside her favoured elite, the 99%. And it's bad for the morality of the US," says Gary Weiss, author of Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America's Soul.
In Rand's later life, her followers turned away from her - some were appalled to learn she had been conducting a 14-year affair with her associate Nathaniel Branden, apparently with the consent of her own husband and Branden's wife, Rand's close friend Barbara.
In praise of objectivism
Objectivism is designed as a guide to life, and celebrates the remarkable potential and power of you, the individual. Objectivism also challenges the doctrines of irrationalism, self-sacrifice, brute force, and collectivism that have brought centuries of chaos and misery into the lives of millions of individuals. It provides fascinating insights into the world of politics, art, education, foreign policy, science, and more, rewarding you with a rich understanding of how ideas shape your world. Those who discover Objectivism often describe the experience as life-changing and liberating.
The Atlas Society
Others were put off for other reasons. One former acolyte, Jerome Tuccille, recalls supporters being "robotic" in their admiration and after two or three years, he turned his attention to less "flawed" libertarian causes.
"She could give a great speech but she was very harsh and very vindictive to anyone who challenged her. She wasn't open to debate but trounced them as irrational, altruistic and hopeless.
"Rand's world was black and white. You are either all good or all bad. Her world is a good fictional representation but it doesn't work in reality in terms of human beings."
This difficulty was most clearly illuminated in Rand's final, lonely years when she claimed social security - an act her critics saw as inherently hypocritical but others said was her due.


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Comic Book Day: David Petersen on "Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard", Plus a Giveaway!
By Whitney Moore on June 26, 2013
The highly anticipated, breathtaking second series to David Petersen's animal anthology Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, Vol. 2 #1 drops today, and to whet your appetite the fine folks at Archaia (rather, the fine folks at BOOM! Studios with whom they recently merged) will be giving out a stellar prize pack with the first Legends of the Guard as well as the Eisner awarded series it was based on: Mouse Guard Vol. 1: Fall 1152, Mouse Guard Vol. 2: Winter 1152, and Mouse Guard Vol. 3: The Black Axe. The fantasy universe of Mouse Guard is one in which cloaked and armored mice engage in epic battles to defend the commonmouse in beautiful and intricately detailed settings, and Legends of the Guard expands on this universe by inviting different contributors to spin yarns about all mouse-related folklore.
David took the time to catch up with us about how he hand-picks each contributor to the Legends of the Guard series, the process of creating an anthology, and all his future Mouse Guard plans. Plus, to sweeten the pot, we're teaming up with Archaia to give away a massive Mouse Guard prize pack to one lucky reader! To win, simply click through to our contest page, then head over to Facebook, Twitter and Google+ for additional chances to win.
David Petersen: I handpick every contributor for the Legends books. I wanted to gather people who I was a fan of, and who knew and expressed fandom in Mouse Guard or my work. For the first volume I compiled a very long list of artists and writers I wanted to work with who I thought would be a good fit. Some were long shots, and some had offered to do Mouse Guard work before there even was talk of an anthology. Now with Legends Vol. 2, I've still not exhausted the original list, and as I read new books and discover more work, I add to it… so there could be more Legends sometime down the road.
DP: The hardest thing in creating any new mouse character is making them appear differently enough from any other mouse character I've ever shown. Since I don't play much with the mouse body shape I've already established, most of the design work goes into their clothes, props, or any scars. Like you mentioned, a few of the stories were told in first person, so I just had to interpret the guest contributors' design into my own proportions and line style. Those were easy, because the design choices were mostly already done for me.
Not all of the stories were turned in when I had to do the character designs, so while a few of them were designed with a mood of a story in mind, most were drawn as just interesting visual characters. I then had to match up the character designs to the stories as they came closer to completion, and tried to make some connection (even if only in my head) why one mouse seemed a better fit with a story than another. I assigned the mouse with the head-wrap and patterned clothing to tell the most visually stylized story of this round of Legends… and gave the mouse with a missing arm one of the most brutal.
DP: Thank you. I like anthologies when they are done well, so when a few past pinup contributors to Mouse Guard (Jeremy Bastian and Mark Smylie) had expressed interest in doing more Mouse Guard "any time," it seemed like a good route to have some fun with talented folks I respect while adding to the Mouse Guard world in an interesting way. There was a good amount of thought that went in to the structure of the Legends series to try and overcome some of the pitfalls I worried about. I didn't want this to feel like a "spinoff" project that I dropped and left for everyone else working on it to pick up.
It needed to feel like I was as invested in it as I wanted the readers to be, so I knew I was going to have to do covers and some interior pages as well as be very hands-on with the editorial. And then there was the problem of having so many different people tell Mouse Guard stories that wouldn't fit well into my story's timeline and history, so I stole a trick from Geoffrey Chaucer and framed the stories around a mouse storytelling contest where the contributions were meant to be tall tales and folklore. I'm very pleased with how well Legends of the Guard meshes with the Mouse Guard series without becoming canon.
DP: Yeah, I do a lot of model building for the locations of the Mouse Guard world. Not only does it help me as I work on the book and need to reference a location over and over from different angles, but it also helps me design the location in the first place. I find it harder to draw a place from scratch than to build it from scratch. Even in a best-case scenario where I would sit down and draw a room and end up designing something I like, I'd only have reference of it from that one angle and not a full understanding of how the stairs meet the ceiling or what's on the other side of those columns.
I like working with my hands and building things (as opposed to more computer time using something like Sketchup) so I cut and glue wood and cardboard together, seeing it from all angles as I build up a location. Because Mouse Guard has a bit of a silly premise to start with — talking mice who talk and walk on their hind legs in a medieval society — I want the rest of the world to be as grounded and believable as possible. I think having locations that I spend time designing in three dimensions and are consistent is a big part of that.
DP: I suppose there has to be some common thread in that diversity that has something to do with my taste of liking the contributors work in the first place, but beyond that the only thing that ties it all together is the common goal of telling a good Mouse Guard story shared by the contributors and me. I see those unique artistic voices as being the unique voices to the mice who tell the story within the anthology. Just like different people you know could tell the same story, but the tone of their voice, the pace, the emphasis on certain words or parts gives each their own storytelling style…these artists are giving visualization to that idea for these mice. After all, it would be a boring anthology if they all just did their best to emulate the already established look of Mouse Guard.
DP: For the stories of Mouse Guard, I'm inspired by the concept of the monomyth put forward by Joseph Campbell. I'm also still working off of the rough story beats I outlined back when Fall only had two issues published. Beyond that, the characters seem to forge their own paths, not in the sense that they write themselves, but that I can see logically concluded paths they could/should take that make them more interesting. Art-wise, I'm inspired by so many folks the list is really long. Some highlights are Edmund Dulac, Jeremy Bastian, Rick Geary, Mike Mignola, Jean-Baptiste Monge, and Karl Kerschl.
The printmaking background helped me to understand how to create various textures and shades of grey in a strictly black-and-white image. I focused on etching (forming an image by soaking a metal plate in acid to create pits where ink will sit when printed) and woodcut (carving away the surface of a hardwood boar where you want white space to be while leaving behind the areas you want to print). Both of these rely on hatching and stippling and pattern/texture making to give an image depth and focus.
And while I'm spending most of my time in the studio, I do break away to catch up on TV shows like Mad Men, Mythbusters, Community, and Boardwalk Empire. I'm anxiously awaiting/dreading the end of Locke and Key. It's a fantastic comic that I love (and) is ending on its own terms, but will miss the idea of new issues of it waiting for me. I play Ticket to Ride and Smallworld with my nieces when they visit, but otherwise I'm in the studio working on some aspect of Mouse Guard while I listen to audio books like Harry Potter (a heavy rotation favorite), Stephen King books, or old time radio shows.
DP: I'll come out of the gate and say that it's going to be a little while. The next arc of my series will be the Weasel War of 1149. I've teased that event since the start of Fall, and now, after three volumes, I think it's the right place to explain it, its effect on the mice and the weasels, how it was resolved, and who were the major players. I want it to deepen the understanding of my existing stories, but also add weight to what comes later. I hope to push into future Mouse Guard stories with readers having understood what happened to lead the story there.
That all said, this Weasel War is going to be pretty epic and daunting to tell (it's starting to seem like it might balloon past my traditional six-issue arc format) so I'm going to be taking a small mouse-vacation to recharge the creative batteries and not burn-out on the mice before I start that volume. But rest assured, I see Mouse Guard as a lifetime project. It's not going anywhere.
Enter to win a free copy of the Mouse Guard prize pack, and follow all David's work on Mouse Guard via his blog (in which he gives amazing insight to the creation of Mouse Guard and spotlights contributors) and his Twitter account.
Who was your favorite contributor in the first Legends of the Guard anthology? Whose stories are you most looking forward to? What's your opinion on the original Mouse Guard series? Leave a quemment below or tell me on Twitter!
I gave these a look-thru after buying them for a nephew's birthday a year or so ago, and they really did appear to be pretty interesting. Great artwork, and pretty in-depth story. The art sorta reminded me of the first "Secret of Nimh" movie. Just a little less cartoony. But, in a good way.
I would definitely recommend this as a good way to get a kid into reading. Great way to broaden their imagination. I know I would have taken up reading a lot sooner if stuff as interesting as this would have been available when I was in school.
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