Chuck and I headed off to the Kutztown Produce Auction for a consignment auction to benefit the Kutztown schools. It was amazingly crowded. Fields that are never used for anything except crops had cars parked in them today. We got there about 45 minutes before the sale began and parked at least 1/3 mile away. It was exciting to see all the people.
We walked the rows of farm equipment. Most of it was for large tractors and really serious crops and fields. There were smaller things too, but that was not on the shopping list for the day.
We moved through some prefabricated out building that were pretty nice. One was a garage type and a couple were sizable 14X10’s and similar.
From there through the shrubbery that was going to be sold and then we found the rabbits and fowl.
Chuck was the first to spot the small chicks and we decided that if they didn’t go ‘too high’ we might consider buying a few. We also spotted some Buff colored Polish breed chickens. I had admired them while at the PA Farm Show and again at the Bloomsburg and the Allentown Farm shows. I think I like their exotic look.
I stood back and before we knew it, Chuck had purchased 63 Americana chicks in dozen or near dozen lots and the two Polish chickens. The prices were great.
OK, now what to do with them. We headed over to Weaver’s Hardware outside of Fleetwood and Kutztown and purchased the necessary waterers and feeders, though they didn’t have feed.
From there it was over the mountain and back to Lehigh Valley to Richlandtown Feed for the chicken feed for the big chickens and the chicks.
Home to Easton to get the chicks up to 98 degrees after a cool morning before they got a chill and to temporarily house the two adult chickens in our bathroom. (They are only mildly pleased to be in there at the moment, but they will be at the farm in a couple hours, after we get the chicks settled in)
Our chicken adventure has begun.
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