200 Baby Chicks Arrived — Here's What We Do First

Watch as we bring home 200 meat bird chicks and prepare them for the brooder. From beak dipping to heat checks, here's everything that happens in the first hours — and why it matters. Two hundred baby chicks arrived in the mail — and we spent the night before making sure everything was ready. We prepped all four brooder levels with fresh wood chips, filled waterers and feeders, and turned on the heat plates so the brooder room was warm and waiting the moment we walked through the door with four boxes of chicks from the post office. Then we took the time to dip every single beak in water and show each chick where the heat is — all two hundred of them. The chicks are thriving, and this heat wave actually gave us a break on the heating side. We're checking them every few hours and enjoying every minute of it — even knowing they're being raised for meat. 📌 Timestamps: 0:00 — 200 Chicks & the Custom Two-Tier Brooder 0:46 — Prepping the Brooder: Wood Chips, Waterers & Heat Plates 1:39 — The Post Office Pickup 2:45 — Peeking in the Box: The Drive Home 3:35 — Moving Chicks into the Brooder 4:04 — Beak Dipping Every Single Chick 5:03 — Behavior Check: Activity, Heat & Settling In 7:43 — Why We Raise Meat Birds This Way & What's Next 🔔 Don't forget to subscribe for more meat bird, brooder, and homesteading adventures from our family farm. #WhitetailAcresFarm #BabyChicks #MeatBirds #BrooderSetup #Homesteading #FarmLife #RaisingChicks #PoultryFarming #FamilyFarm #ChickCare