New batch of chicks

We collected a new batch of twenty, day old chicks today to grow on for meat. We usually get a batch in the Spring and sometimes a second batch later in the year. We are sequencing this later for this year as it is likely to be better in terms of the annual distribution of workload. 

The poultry producer was on his regular delivery run and the handover was just off the Barton Mills roundabout on the A11 as he was on his way to Norwich. We'll meet there again in November.

We'll keep the chicks undercover in the workshop for four weeks, gradually weaning them off heat. By this time they will have feathered up and can be transferred to their outside house and run. They grow surprisingly quickly.

Hatched this morning. Back home and
about to be transferred to their
brooder pen.