This years shipment of baby chicks has arrived at Rainey's Farm and Feed !
Unfortunately there was a shipping issue that delayed delivery by a couple of days, and that was a little more than some of the babies could take in the shipping box. We lost our ducks and a few of the chicks. The rest of the babies are healthy and happy to be in their new home, our home built bird nursery.
The kids are very happy to be able to finally hold them and feed them. We are committed to holding them on a daily basis, to get them used to human contact and keep them tame when we work with them. All of these birds are egg layers (except for the one rooster of course) and will be with us for a long time providing fresh healthy eggs for our farm.
Once they are a few weeks old and become "teenagers" these birds will be moved to the old turkey pen, safe but within eyesight to the existing flock. Hopefully this will ease the acceptance problems that birds have to newcomers.
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