But recently, the flow of the farm production came to a halt.
“Normally, it works like clockwork. And it has to,” Thoreson said.
Several times this year, when Thoreson went to pick up the chicks at the Victoria Post Office, he noticed something.
“They’re very loud when they’re just born, they’re really, really loud,” he said.
At least twice, when he went to pick them up, he heard nothing.
“Two times, we’ve had 90-90%+ mortality. And then several other instances, three or four separate times, we’ve had mortality that’s definitely higher than we would expect normally, which is 10-20%, which is still a problem, and sort of indicates some potential mishandling because it’s so atypical,” he said.
