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To all of you newbies just joining BYC.... It's people like this that make BYC such a great community! Reading through this thread again this afternoon makes it clear just how generous and supportive our members are. And what you can't read here is the DOZENS of pm's and emails I've got from both friends here and total strangers offering everything from loading up to come help clear the storm damage to offers of chicks and eggs, prayers and hugs, and just asking if there was anything they could do to help. Thank you one and all!
Thanks so much Heather, but I've still got around 90 chicks of various ages plus the storm didn't get any of my breeders thank God. I guess I shouldn't complian, it's just that losing any of them is a blow because I feel like I've failed to protect them and care for them properly. This is our first year using multiple brooders, but If we were still using just the one it would have been so much worse.
After finishing the final count yesterday evening, if I remembered to write everything down, we lost a total of 36 chicks of age from a week up to a couple around six weeks old. None of the breeders were lost and all our other stock is ok. It's hard to believe that was all we lost looking at the damage. We were definatly blessed to have been hit so lightly.
Today the sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, the grass is just too green to believe..... Life is good.
Thanks again to all who have posted and you will never know until it happens to you how much it means.
To all of you newbies just joining BYC.... It's people like this that make BYC such a great community! Reading through this thread again this afternoon makes it clear just how generous and supportive our members are. And what you can't read here is the DOZENS of pm's and emails I've got from both friends here and total strangers offering everything from loading up to come help clear the storm damage to offers of chicks and eggs, prayers and hugs, and just asking if there was anything they could do to help. Thank you one and all!
Thanks so much Heather, but I've still got around 90 chicks of various ages plus the storm didn't get any of my breeders thank God. I guess I shouldn't complian, it's just that losing any of them is a blow because I feel like I've failed to protect them and care for them properly. This is our first year using multiple brooders, but If we were still using just the one it would have been so much worse.
After finishing the final count yesterday evening, if I remembered to write everything down, we lost a total of 36 chicks of age from a week up to a couple around six weeks old. None of the breeders were lost and all our other stock is ok. It's hard to believe that was all we lost looking at the damage. We were definatly blessed to have been hit so lightly.
Today the sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, the grass is just too green to believe..... Life is good.
Thanks again to all who have posted and you will never know until it happens to you how much it means.
