June 16th - Setting up the Water and Food

Before I left for the Post Office, I turned on the heat lamp in the brooder so it could come up to 95 degrees for the new chicks.  After checking for "pasty butt" a disease the chicks can actually die from, I put them into the brooder one by one and dipped their beaks into the water.  For the first 24 hours, I also added "Save-a-chick" which is a combination vitamins and minerals for new chicks and poultry under stress.  I guess being born and then bumping your way all around the country in mail trucks and planes could be considered stressful don't you?