Plant City Farm & Flea Market — Local services in Plant City

I went here to buy a couple chickens that lay eggs. I found a Spanish lady that had a small cage with like 5 chickens in it. She didn't speak any English....so I used my Google translator to communicate. She assured me that the chickens lay eggs. I bought X2 at $25 a piece. They looked like Rhode island red breed. Anyways....I get them to my coup......I had x3 other chickens that didn't like them.....pecking order .....I had the chickens for a week and not 1 egg was produced. One of the chickens had yellow diarrhea... And it's beak was kind of crooked... I tried to bring them back to return to flea market on Wednesday....to the Spanish lady....but the booth was gone.. Vanished. I felt like that boy in Gremlins that bought Gizmo from the old guy in an alleyway... And then magically disappear when you try to find them again. I ended up buying two Australorp from a friend at work .. and they laid X2 eggs the very same day.....and they get along with the Americana chickens I have. I put the two non egg layer chickens outside the cage...I think they eventually got eaten by a fox or hawks. Moral of the story...don't buy from someone that can't speak your language. Maybe get a phone number to return if product isn't what they say it is. Inspect the chickens up close..... because I was kind of mad that the crooked chicken beak one with diarrhea was now my problem. I would go to this flea market again. Parking is $1......make sure you go early on Wednesday....7am.....as it gets very busy. Some parts look like a homeless camp ......but whatever......it was worth...

Truly DISAPPOINTED & back stabbed. Was given an opportunity by the market manager to rent one of the new large buildings from Ferris in beginning of this year. Our plans were to be open the first week of July. Having Great Hopes into expanding our veteran owned small business. we had cabinets made and employees hired. We were looking forward to doing business with Ferris and being there 5 to 7 days a week, and was told if we want a building we had to be open Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday not a problem. It took forever for doors to be put on before we can come in and bring our tools to start building. In June we find out that Ferris ⁰copied our business inventory & opened his own stand. Even opened it the same time we planned. The worst part was he seemed to forget who we were. Ferris, I know you don't like Walmart...Cuz they step on the little guys, leaving no opportunity for small businesses to grow by saturating the market. BUT, what you did to us, is exactly what all these big box stores do. Find out what your selling. Then, copy your business model. You took a fulltime opportunity from us & our new employees we hired. Wasted our Carpenters time by building us our cabinets off site. Even our wednesday opportunity is gone. There is no reason to come back. After 10YRS! of selling at your market. We had loyal regular customers that WE, WORKED HARD to build. We apologize to OUR, customers for not being there for you at plant city anymore. You can still find us we are still open! Friday Saturday Sunday at another location. Best of...

Vendors are good,but Beware of the people running the show. I'm not sure how they target you, but they put a boot on my vehicle and said I couldn't park where I parked. Apart from cars parking there multiple times before when I have gone, there was a car leaving the spot where I parked. I park and come back with a boot on my vehicle. There were no "no parking" signs . And when that was mentioned, she said they break off, and then when mentioned it's their duty that they need to maintain them and put new ones so people will know not to park there,she got upset and said it was a fire lane. There were also no fire lane signs or markings either. Then she realized she had no more excuses and multiple bystanders were telling her the samething ,she said it was private property and they can do what they want.I mentioned it to a fire Marshall and he said if it were a fire lane why would they put a boot on it and cause it more of a hassle if there was a emergency and the vehicle had to get towed and also a sheriff after i left and paid them to remove the boot and they both said I was not in the wrong and what they are doing is a money scheme and illegal. If I had time, I would've called the sheriff before I left and not paid them till the sheriff decided. I've called the contact number with no return calls back on filing a complaint. I took pictures after they removed the boot. She also did not...