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Preparing for arrival of baby chicks. Chick trays are placed under chickmate feeder
tubes to allow easy access for baby chicks during the first week. Feed is also flooded into the feeders |
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Chicks arrive by truck and are unloaded with a forklift. |
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This is a tray of baby chicks that are ready to be placed on the barn floor. There
are 100 chicks in each tray. |
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Baby chicks being thrown on the barn floor. Although it looks rough, the chicks
will be fine and none the worse for the experience. |
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Baby Chicks
that have just arrived. They are just hours old from hatching. They have free roam on the barn floor.
They drink from the nipple drinkers. They are attracted to "peck" at the drinker by the shinny water
buble that forms at the end of the drinker. On the right are baby chikcs with Chore-Time nipple drinker. |
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Ten-thousand baby chicks that have just arrived and been placed on the barn floor within reach of
food and water. There are 27,500 baby chicks in each house.
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