Saturday, November 10, 2012

Live mail

 Above package is a shipment of 40 cornish rock X meat chickens and 1 rare exotic breed chick.

Our latest shipment of meat chickens arrived bright and early last Friday causing quite a stir at the post office. We got a call first thing (6:00 a.m.) that the chick were in and ready for pick up. Little Miss E just so happen to be up that morning so she and I bundled up and headed off to pick up or furry new friends. Upon arrival at the post office we could easily hear where they were holding our package due to the very large chirping the babies were doing. Miss E was so excited to take them to the car and home with us. I think picking up something real and live at the post office instead of just papers was lots of fun to her. These chicks were just born on Wednesday and able to ship within 48 hours without food or water because they are still ingesting part of there egg yoke sack during this time. However as soon as we go them out of the box as you can see in the picture above they were more than happy 
to finally have food and water. All the noise came to mere peeps once the heat lamp was put on them, these girls are happy and hot now. For the first week we have to keep them at 95 degree, each week after we can decrees by 5 degrees until they reach 5 weeks and they can pretty much make it on their own. With winter quickly approaching we may give them another week with heat at night just to be sure everyone is safe.

1 comment:

  1. That's some fun mail; well, mostly fun. No call before the sun comes up is good in my opinion.

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