For the next few weeks, their home will be a small room in the back of the tool shed, which doubles as a brooder. My role in promoting their survival will be to help keep the brooder at about 95 degrees, the temperature the chicks like it. This will include stoking the coal furnace at 9 p.m. before I go to bed, and hoping they don't freeze before I return to stoke it again the next morning. When so many chicks are depending on you, it makes it difficult to justify oversleeping that alarm clock.
No lambs yet. But they should be showing up any day now, too. And unlike the chicks, they won't be coming from the Post Office. They'll be born in the sheep barn.
2 comments:
Are the chicks shipped in every year or is this exceptional? It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to keep a flock of chickens going year-round, but what the heck do I know?
The boss again:
We get a new set of chicks each year so that the school kids, visitors, and interns can learn about the process of raising them. Turning over the flock also helps keep the flock young and vigorous, thereby reducing health issues.
Farmer Rob
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