When we figure out how many meat birds we’re going to sell during the summer, Sue figures out when and how many chicks to order to give us time to raise them without too much overlap since we only have a few spaces to raise them. For this year, she also wanted to add our water-babies to the mix, so she did a lot of figuring to fit them in and made sure we had time and space to let them grow up. Unfortunately, they did NOT arrive when promised, so there’s been some amount of finagling to give them their space. You saw the very cool external brooder she made, but they are growing so quickly there was apartment swapping that needed to happen.

The ducks and geese were then moved into the brooder section. They got a bigger waterer and feeder too. Hopefully they will no longer be getting everything drenched! When they are a little bit bigger, they will have direct access to the outside and will be able to, perhaps, get in and out of a little pond. For now, everyone seems to be quite happy. The little, littles are still in the upper brooder and have a couple of weeks before they are too big to be in there; hopefully the ducks and geese will be much bigger (given their rate of growth now) and we can graduate them to the hall way. The hall space will be vacated by the meat birds; their processing day will be on the 15th of this month. Then we should be good with the remaining schedule.