Baby Chicks, Baby Turkeys

We had a double arrival. On Thursday morning, a shipment of 60 day old broiler chicks showed up at the Hagerstown post office. Friday morning, we picked up a shipment of 25 two day old turkeys. All are scratching about comfortably in the newly constructed summer brooding house. The broilers will be turned out on pasture in about 2 weeks and will be fully grown at 6-8 weeks. The turkeys are a good bit more fragile and will probably remain brooding for 3-4 weeks, then to a covered pen for another 1-3 weeks, then off to free-range until Thanksgiving.