This blog post was originally drafted and posted by Lauren Arbogast of Paint The Town Ag. It is part of a blog series dedicated to #raisingpoultry. In the series, Lauren walks us through how poultry is raised in the United States – from start to finish. The blog was cross-posted this week on NCC’s blog, “The Cluck.”

Lauren and her family raise chickens, cows, crops and kids in Virginia. Check out the original blog post, and Lauren’s Twitter and Facebook pages.

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It’s a day not unlike Christmas at our house. Or at least birthday status. The day the chicks arrive is certainly one for the books. The mini farmers race to be the first ones to whichever house is being delivered, where they do their best to “help” get the chicks out of the boxes and into their new residence. {Help is defined veeeerrry loosely in this context.} Pretty soon they have armfuls of yellow fluff lining their arms and even little heads sticking out of their sweatshirt pockets.  Read more…