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Photo Journal - Preparing for hatching chicks.
At Patuxent, the birds are all hatched and raised in the Propagation Building.

The aviary, and the kitchen, which is always crowded with people doing a hundred different things - cleaning, preparing food and meds, processing eggs, etc - is where we spend much of our time.

 

The chicks use a variety of feeders and water dispensers, graduating from one to another as they age. These food and water dispensers are what the chicks use until they are about twenty days old. The red bowl is what we start feeding them from. After that, they graduate to the long gray bowl - which can be hung at increasing heights on the fence. Drinking begins from the tan bowl. From there the cranes move to the little gravity jug and then the bigger one.

 

The black case with foam in it is used to transport eggs from the field to the building.


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