How To Pick Up Chicks

With a pickup truck, it turns out. Every two weeks we receive 200 baby chicks in the mail from a hatchery in Pennsylvania. We zip down in a truck to pick them up and get them safely lodged under the heat lamps in the brooder, where they spend their next three weeks growing feathers and preparing for life out in the big world. 200 baby chicks make enough noise that it’s better to put them in the truck bed than in the closed cab. When the postmaster calls us with the news, “Your chicks are in, come get them”, you can hear the urgency in her voice as she struggles to be heard over the racket.