In WNY tractor supply is a very popular source for chicks in the spring. Will they have been tampered with I wonder? As in, sterile and no ability to lay eggs?
TSC can no longer be trusted. Board members reportedly connected with WEF.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chickens/comments/xgo7qx/did_tsc_feed_kill_my_birds_anyone_else_have_this/
Many folks in that area who raise laying hens and broilers get their chicks elsewhere, but I am told that the local brooder houses have announced shortages of those birds.
Further bad news for all of NYS is this skunk: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/01/howarth-advises-senators-shrink-nys-natural-gas-options