Gloria P said...

> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>
>>
>> My mom was the postmaster (mistress?) in the tiny rural country
>> Illinois town I grew up in...around this time of year cardboard boxes
>> of little peeping chicks would be delivered to the folks around who
>> grew chickens...
>>
>> I always wondered how they fared on their journey from the poultry -
>> hatching places in Iowa or wherever...
>>
>> This was in the 60's...I wonder if chicks are still delivered to
>> people in that manner...
>>
>
> I don't know about delivery to individuals, but there's a farm supply
> store about 10 miles away (in a very yuppie area that used to be farms
> 15 years ago). Every spring they put an ad in the paper saying "The
> chicks have arrived." They get them via overnight delivery and keep
> them in big tubs with warmth lights and grain. So cute!
>
> gloria p


gloria p,

Why the warmth lights I wonder? They're coated in down. If I was a chick,
I'd be overheat... I say I'd be hot!!!

Andy
Foghorn Leghorn