"In The Nursery"

This is the first episode where we take you "into the farm"! This episode is much more information based, and less discussion in type, but in it we explore the common practices we use here in nursery management, including weaning protocols, health management, and facility setup, with an inside look inside one of our nurseries!

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Yeah, as far as you know, I I get this question a lot of of how long do you leave them in the nursery? And really uh there there's a there's a lot of right answers. Uh for us, seven to eight weeks is probably ideal. Six six and a half.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Pig age.

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Pig pig age. Yeah, yeah. They stay in the nursery until they're six and a half to eight weeks old, more or less. Um I I don't ever look at the calendar and see how old they are, but when we do it by size and when I think they're ready. Uh as far as pigs, we sell off the farm. I was just talking about this with a guy the other day. I try to make it to where they're out for about a week and then they'll be ready. Another episode, uh, another time. This is your host, Josh Brockman, uh, alongside my lovely bride, Carrie Brockman. Can look at the camera, honey. Say hi. We're glad you found us again, came back with us. Uh glad to be here with you uh another time. So these first few episodes have been fun. It's been interesting to see the response, to hear the feedback and and uh questions asked and answered, hopefully. And so thank you all very much for the follow-up, as always. Uh we'll just say it on the front end this time. If uh if you haven't liked wherever you're listening to this at uh or subscribe to our YouTube channel, uh any of any of those type of things, uh, we would really appreciate it if you'd go and do that. Uh share it with a friend if you found the podcast interesting or fun or useful. Um if not, I'm probably not listening right now anyway. So I'm gonna talk to the people that are here. Don't talk to the people that aren't here. But anyways, no, in all seriousness, thank you guys. It's been uh it's been really cool um so far. And we've got a lot of things in store and in mind for the future if my technological ability continues to evolve uh or grow. I don't know if evolve would be the be the right word, but grow, maybe. So that and Carrie continues to be patient with me when things don't work out when we sit down for the first time. But this week, uh we're gonna kind of have a a new twist on this episode. Part of it'll be here on set, and then part of it'll be uh actually on the farm walking through, uh mic'd up there, and and so as as we get kind of this part done, and then you'll you'll we'll finish up um in uh at the pig farm here in Montgomery. So without any further ado, you've already seen it in the title of what we're gonna talk about today, but we're gonna talk about baby pigs in the nursery and then kind of moving them from uh you know out of the fair and house into the nursery and then ultimately into the chip barn and just uh deal with with that aspect of of the nursery time. Uh very crucial time of their life uh to get them off to the right start and the right foot. So uh when we kind of try to do these production uh oriented titles and and videos, you know, we know that uh some of you that just show pigs probably well you might be interested in this part too, but some of you that have sales, uh we hope this is helpful to you. I I can know when we started and had had eight to ten cells and fifteen to twenty, uh it was a learning curve and a lot of trying to figure things out. And uh I'll tell you as we get on the front side of this, um a lot of the things that we do, you can you can mask replicate. Some of them uh you know are are unneeded and specific to just the the climate that we live in, the way our facility is set up. So just hopefully you can take something and apply it, put your own spin or twist on it and make it work on your end. So um as we just talk about the nursery itself, you know, most people uh wean somewhere around 21 days. That that's kind of the target day for us uh to get uh out of the fairing house off the cell and into the nursery. It's 21 days. Um you can move it a week any either direction, really, in my opinion, um, and uh and be successful. But just kind of depends on what works and works for you. Uh I'll just give you a little bit. What we'll do as we get into the summer, we don't have anything in the fairing houses right now. But as we get into the summer, um Carrie will will take you through the fairing houses and how some of that protocol and part works for us too.

SPEAKER_02 4:33

But um you don't want to come to the fairing house.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

Like I said, Carrie's gonna handle that. I uh I I'm not allowed in the fairing houses in Montgomery, so the size of my we'll zoom in here. Um this doesn't it doesn't do any good in the fairing houses, so that pretty face there's much more um fairing house worthy. So I don't really go in the nursery a whole lot either, other than just to check health. Usually I don't see the pigs very often until they get to the chip barn. Um people ask me all the time, like how the pigs look, I have no idea, uh, until they get to chips. So uh we're blessed, or I'm blessed, with uh a beautiful wife that does a great job in the fairnhouse and Rachel that kind of manages that and and Mason, they they take care of the fairnhouses, and uh Rachel mainly and Carrie take care of the fairnhouses in the nursery, and then uh when they get to chips, I kinda jump in all the way around. So anyways, we'll say all that just to say we will have these same type of episodes on on hopefully every facet of the of the pig farm over time. Uh just kind of the way timing worked and where we're at. All of this group of pigs were in the nursery. We had time to do it, so here we are. So um fast forward three weeks old of a pig that goes into the nursery, and I'll just kind of tell you what we do and and the way that it works for us. So uh all the pigs get uh get an antibiotic and get wormed as we wean them to go into the fairnhouses or to go into the out of the fairhouses into the nursery. Uh we used to fight manes and parasites and some of that type of deal, and we started actually just worming everything as we wean them. That cleaned all of that up or most of that up, so that was that was really, really good. Um our nurseries are are all plastic or wire flooring, or some of both. It's a little bit split, and you'll see all this when we get to the video of it. But 21 days old, we put them in there. Uh, depending on the humidity, which is usually you know between 90 and 150 percent uh in Montgomery. Um I I try to keep those nurseries somewhere 82 to 86, 88 degrees. 85 is a really solid number. Um, I try to balance the the humidity and the air quality and the airflow and and true temperature, uh, depending on all that, depending on how full they are, empty they are. Again, a lot of these things are subjective and you've got to apply it to your own. But if I if I termed ideal, I try to keep them at about 85 degrees uh there for the first at least couple of weeks that they're in the nursery. We wean everything on Lender 600. Um, they've been creep fed on Lender 600 for about a week before we wean them as well. And uh as they go into the nursery, they're gonna get another basically bag per litter, bag for every 10 or 12 head uh of 600 as they they go into the nursery. Uh that's worked really well for us. It's it's an easy transition, especially if they're broke to it already when they were on the sow. Uh they get in there and everything works works really good.

SPEAKER_02 7:39

So um Josh, talk about how you sort, because we don't we don't wean by litter.

SPEAKER_00 7:45

Right. So so there's a few different ways that you can you can go about um when you're putting things in the nursery, and it really depends on how you want to do it. I know a lot of guys they will um they'll uh wean by litter and put them in litter by litter. You know, they've got 10 sows, ten crates, ten nursery pants or whatever. Um and that's great. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. For us, what works is that we sort them one by sex, male and female, uh only two genders, uh, only two sexes. Just go ahead if anybody's wondering about that. But we sort them male and female, and the reason we do that is a couple of reasons. One, when I pull them out and put them in chips to sell them, uh they're usually they're divided that way uh because people that want to look at barrows, people don't want to look at guilts, and you're not having to dig through multiple pins and run mixed groups out. Um it just makes the things on on the backside for us very simple. So we sort them first, male and female, uh and and divide them that way. And then uh the other thing about that that that helps, I think, is usually the guilts are ready quicker than the boys. Uh so as far as changing them on feed or getting them out of the nursery or what have you, um, that that part matters. And then, you know, a lot of the times if certain guilts that you know are for sale, some that aren't, uh you can kind of save chips pin space, uh chip pen space, uh leaving the guilt in the nursery that you know that aren't gonna be for sale or whatever a little longer. So it kind of helps me on that side too. But mainly it's it's the ease of of showing them, getting them out to chips. That's one less pen I have to mix or or work around, etc. etc. So we sort them male and female. We sort them by size. Um and by size, basically what I'm uh I don't, you know, like sit there and and get just really specific, but we'll have littler, skinnier pens, bigger, bloomier ones, and uh that works really well for us, again, from a feed standpoint and from when they'll they'll be ready to come out of the nursery. If they're if they're littler, uh, you know, on the back tit and just smaller pegs that when they come out aren't as uh aren't as ready, they might stay on 600 a little bit longer or stay on a little hotter feed a little bit longer, and the other ones need to come off you know at a normal rate. So those those things help, and I think they just do better because they're you know they're competition-wise and all that. Um so normally like let's just say we're weaning 40 head and I'm gonna put them in three different pins or there's 40 males, I I'll divide them up against three pins. And uh, you know, as we're pulling them off, I just kind of sort them like they f look bigger there, there, there, and then we kind of even it up as we get to the end of whatever group we're weaning. But uh the when we started to do that, that really helped us a lot. Again, just organization, pig health, so on and so forth. So uh male and female by size, that's really the the main two. You know, depending on how those sows milk, uh, some pigs come out skinnier and some pigs bloomier. I don't I don't think a lot of the feed instances really have anything to do with it on that front. Um honestly, so we we we wean on 600 bag per litter basically, and then now lender came out with 616, that's what's in our bulk bins in the nursery. Once they come off of that, everything in the nursery stays on 616. Um, it works really, really well. Uh, did a little video for them back in the in the last group that uh I love it because nothing comes out of the nursery overdone, over muscly, bloomy, etc. They come out in the shape and and condition that I want them to be uh when I get them to the chip barn at seven, eight weeks old. And uh it works really, really well for us. And then when we pull them out the chips, we can evaluate what what protocol, what feed they need to go to from there. So as we wean, we sort them that way, they're on that. Most of the time we utilize Ferapies uh whenever we vaccinate on the sow, right before we wean. Uh I I, you know, I don't know what that little stuff's putting it on their foreheads. It makes zero sense to me, but I think it does make a fair amount of immense difference um as far as fighting and keeping them healthy. And and that's really important because uh when they fight and they scar up and they're weaned, there's a lot of things that get introduced between and and that timer that can from those scars, strep and things like that that you're gonna fight. So the more that we can minimize that, the better. And that's why I said like if you're a smaller producer and you can just wean them by litters by pen, that's that's probably the best way to do it. Because again, you minimize any of those instances. But for us, it works good this way.

SPEAKER_02 12:28

Um we didn't talk about that. We we vaccinate on the sow.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

I try to do it four days before we wean. Yeah. Three to four days before we wean. We used to do it as we weaned. Um, if you don't want to handle them an extra time, certainly works fine. Um but uh I like having them get all that, kind of knocks them on their butt a little bit. They get over it while they're still on the sow and not mixed with other ones, and then by the time we wean, everything's back full force to go on. Same with the sows. We try to vaccinate them three or four days. Whenever we do the pigs, we do the sows also that way. Uh three or four days in the crate where they can kind of everything situate, and uh it works really, really well. We use the ferapizatil on the sows and we kick them out too. Um, so they're in the nursery. The the other thing we always run, and again, we're not vets, we're not gonna recommend a whole lot of medications. We're gonna generally talk about some. We've had some requests for that, but um I I do run amoxicillin through the medicator um as we wean every time. I think that works really well. Uh, again, just general, as far as health, strep, any of those type of things. I think it works really, really good. There's some other things we've we've implemented in the medicator from a hydration standpoint uh and not over time. Um, some of those things uh I think can be very good, like tenicity or um um Bluetooth we've used before. Vitacharge was used. All that there's a lot of those products that I think are very good and that that have been helpful. We don't use them on a constant basis as a general rule. We use them more as a as a necessity. If we've got uh you know a little scour, if it's really hot, or some small ones that need to get going a little bit better, those type of things. Just from a cost-effective standpoint, that kind of fits us better. Um, but again, if you're if you've if you've got a bunch of them, uh sometimes you know there's guys that'll tell you it's worth it to that they see a difference if you're trying to turn them around quicker, if you're um fighting a little something, or if it's you know, extreme temperatures, humidity, hot, what's uh you know, there's instances that we certainly have have done it across all of them. Um but as a general rule, we we pretty much just run amoxicillin at first and then everything in the medicator after that is is just treatment oriented if as needed basis. Yeah. So I think it's always probably good to have something in there preventatively. Um as as you would, you know, I say as needed, not necessarily waiting for a problem. But uh, you know, di different things have worked over the years and just kind of depends on a on a need. Uh uh I'm not a big uh one size fits all kind of a person in anything. So um anyways, with that, you know, we we try our our nursery pins size-wise are ten by five by ten or five by eight, depending on which nursery you're in. Um, you know, I I've over the years never really figured out the best ideal number um for that. I try to not get above a dozen in the five by eight pins and not above fifteen in the five by ten pins when you have a hundred letters over a very short amount of time. Sometimes that just isn't possible. So um getting them out to where they can thin out uh as they grow is a little bit better. But I I've never actually looked and seen what the what the ideal number of a nursery people say is a hundred head nursery or five hundred head nursery. I don't really know what that calculation is based off of. Somebody much smarter than me probably came up with it and is probably right. But uh again, I think uh like anything, if if they're smaller and greener, keeping them in a smaller space and keeping it a little hotter is a good rule of thumb. Um crowded in there a little bit better, I think that that helps. And and the opposite, the bigger they get, the more room they're gonna need, obviously. So it's pretty simplistic. But that that's our basic, just general protocol of uh getting them into the nursery. And um feed-wise and that, and and water medicator-wise and and what have you. Everything in our nursery is your own cup waterers. I like that the best. For mainly the simple fact of I don't have to worry about them fighting and getting busted into the nipple and something happened there, and I could see that there's water in the cup or not. So I know if I've you know got a plugged up nipple or something like that, it's easier to find and fix. So uh prefer those. Um yeah, on that basics. Any thoughts of any of that?

SPEAKER_02 17:00

Um, the only thing I would uh add to that, I mean, that is the the basic deal. If if we are um having to supplement a litter in the farrowing house um every now and then, we'll go ahead and kind of wean those off of um the supplemental milk in the nursery. Um, like I know this set we had like a really small pen of pigs. And typically if we can, we'll leave those on another sow a little bit longer. Uh, but even on those that have just kind of been behind, and if they've been on supplemental milk on the crate, we'll go ahead and and provide that milk for a little bit longer during that uh weaning transition period just to make it a little bit easier on them since they've kind of been behind for a while. Um, and then gradually wean them off of that also.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

Perfect. Yeah, no, um, yeah, as far as you know, I I get this question a lot of of how long do you leave them in the nursery? And really, uh there there's a there's a lot of right answers. Uh for us, seven to eight weeks is probably ideal. Six, six and a half.

SPEAKER_01 18:04

Pig age.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

Pig, pig age, yeah, yeah. Well they stay in the nursery till they're six and a half to eight weeks old, more or less. Um and that's when we start to try to move them out. I I don't ever look at the calendar and see how old they are. I mean, we do it by size and when I think they're ready. Uh, but if I was to put it out on a map in a calendar, I would say that's about right. Uh as far as pigs we sell off the farm, I was just talking about this with a guy the other day. I try to make it to where they're out for about a week and then they'll be ready. So usually for us, selling pigs off the farm is about eight weeks old. Um, so if I pull them out at seven, that gives me a week to get them ready, you know, to for them to get out, get over a new spot, um, kind of go through their little bit of stage that that all pigs do when they come out of the nursery, um, and get back to what they what they are, and then I'm ready to sell them. So I I try not to keep them on chips more than a week uh when we get to that point. For me, lifestyle pig kind of what seemed to work the best is about ten weeks. So again, those pigs are coming out seven to eight weeks old, uh, and then they're in in the chip barns for a couple of weeks. That that gives us that same week to get them ready and you know, to get them over the the move, and then an additional week to get them broke, et cetera, et cetera, um, see where they are and and kind of have them a little more ready to either travel to a live sale or or to be at a live sale here at the farm. So um that's kind of our our basic thought process of when they come out of the nursery and need to go to the chip barn, and we'll do a video on that too, uh, or a podcast on that uh pretty soon um as well, probably with the same set of pigs. We'll kind of move them through. But um the other thing we did start doing this last time is is as they came out of the chip barn or out of the nursery into the chip barn is I clipped every one of them's head. Uh I'm gonna train my two young employees to do that this year, and they're going to do that but because it was a daunting task for one I personally did them all. And uh I loved it though. It was especially, you know, hair's uh we did a hair episode, hair's the deal, so I mean uh they're hairy and it makes it harder to look at them when they're little uh and read through some of that, so we clip their heads down. Uh people can say, you know, old school mentality would say that that's you know unnecessary and and that's fine. And I can read through the hair, but a lot of the people that come that want to look uh look at pigs here, uh appreciate the fact that it's not there and they can they don't have to look through it. So uh that's kind of our mentality on that. And as far as getting them tan and getting them kind of sale ready for the ones that go to live sales or online sales, it really helps, especially with all the video and online stuff in this day and time. Um sometimes it's hard, really hard to see through that uh on uh on a video online, so it really helps to have them clipped and uh you know you can kind of see what they are when they are and from that standpoint.

SPEAKER_02 20:57

So Yep, for sure. Um I think just to backtrack for just a second and kind of go through our daily management in the nursery. Um Rachel typically handles the nursery in the morning uh because because we're at the uh I'm at the show barn. Um, but she'll go through there and um we have uh nurse in the in the big nursery, we have pens on each side with the concrete concrete alley. And so uh Rachel will go through there and wash that down um and and you know, clean it every morning. Um so we think that obviously helps with health some, um, but she'll clean that while she's doing that. She'll go through and scrape the bottom of the feeders to get anything out that's dirty or wet there. Gilts for some reason love to use the feeders as their bathrooms. Um, and so to get all that feed out of there and make sure the feed is flowing freely there. And then she will make sure and get every pig up in every pin and put her eye on every pin. Um, Rachel has a background. She showed pigs, but then she also worked at a commercial farm in South Carolina. So she's extremely good at Checking health. And if you can catch a lot of that stuff that, you know, I would say the main things that we see in the nursery, strep is number one, probably. I think we fight that as an industry, but then we fight it even more so here because of the humidity. So we look for a lot of strep um skin issues because of the humidity again. We'll have greasy pig very seldom, but you will see it. And and Rachel is incredible at catching that quickly before it escalates to something that's bad.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

No, I mean the the good thing about the nursery to me is that um most of the time that that's you know one of the healthier uh healthier supposed for us. I mean ever everybody has their own things that they deal with. Every pig farm if they if they tell you they don't have issues that they're dealing with, they're just they're they're just gonna have a hard time telling the truth. But um a as a general rule, like you said, just yeah, strep is probably the main one and it's been pretty minimal here lately. So um just making sure feeders are clean and and bellies are full.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

I mean And when we say strep, you can see that in a couple different forms. You can see it as a big hawk or a big elbow, you know, just a big joint in general, or you can see it to where it's gotten to the the into their um neurological system and it's more like strep meningitis where you know they kind of act drunk and weeble and wobble and uh we don't see a ton of those that get on their side and paddle. I think it's because we we Rachel does a really good job of attacking health and we catch it before it gets to that point. We're gonna see if it's a big hawk or or something like that first. Um but that's kind of how strep presents itself here. Um I I'm sure you know it shows up a little bit differently at other places. Um But yeah, I would say so strep, skin issues. Um every now and then you'll see one um like we have one right now that that fought a little bit more than we would have liked and is gonna get a a a big ear, actually two big ears. Um his ears are gonna crinkle, so we try to um you know kind of watch for some of those things. Um every now and then you might have one hold in their head like an ear infection. Um and and then just if they get a little loose every now and then.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

Right. Oh, and and there's I mean lots of different things. But I I would say as a general rule that uh our our health in the nursery um comes from the most of a constant temperature. Health not being issues comes from having a constant temperature and and a good airflow and air quality. So uh we've had lots of different facilities over the years. We've had lean to little makeshift buildings that were here when we bought the place that we put crates in and washed out under every day. Uh we've had Luco Hog Havens that you had to open up during the day, shut down at night, so on and so forth. Um and now we've we've built a permanent one that uh that's set up somewhat like a double L as far as the way it's laid out, as far as a cool room and preheat room and and uh exhaust fans and and the way it tunnels. So I can tell you a lot of the ways not to build a nursery. Uh and and I'm very, very happy actually. It's my favorite building that I've built. Uh the way we built this one, it works really, really well. So um there's probably guys that have built lots of better ones than me. Uh but this one this one works. So uh but yeah. Keeping the temperature constant i regardless of of what what it is, but I would say keeping it constant and keeping your airflow good and that eliminates most of the problems that you have in the nursery. Um keeping the feeders clean, waters clean, and you know, something running probably in the medicator from an antibiotic standpoint is a preventative. Um and the greatest thing about the nursery is you don't have to you don't have to just scoop the shavings out and and redo them. Um like you do in the chip barn. So so that part's nice. Our just built over a pit. Like I said, we wash them out every day. We try to keep them as clean as we can. Um and and go from there. So other than that, they stay in there, eat feet, stay healthy, and get ready to come out and get ready to sell.

SPEAKER_02 26:20

So I guess one thing we didn't talk about, I mean respiratory, obviously, but I do think like you said, the airflow has uh kept that at a minimum for us.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

No, definitely. And and keeping the the the big thing if I was to add a third thing to to temperature and airflow is is checking them twice a day. Yeah. Um and like like Carrie said, that's that's how Rachel starts her day and finishes her day and she I mean taking her time through each pan of knowing. Uh and and it's kinda like for those of you that show pegs too, obviously most of you it's kinda like knowing your your bear. Like you get to realize like, okay, that one seems a little off. Um and you notice that a show bear that might have ate everything and and whatever else, and you can just look at it like he's not himself. Um but she gets very familiar. It's hard, you know, with there's two hundred in the nursery at the moment, that you'll see here in a minute. Um but uh still just kinda being able to take that time because uh you know and a lot of these things we talked about respiratory strip, any of it. Twelve hours and a little baby pig in the nursery um can make an immense difference of how to get 'em over it and how quick you can get 'em over it.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

So I can't find it this fast. Um I wish I'd have thought of it, but there was a vet that raises pigs down in the valley and he posted a thing the other day about like uh hours to days in a baby pig's like Yeah, comparative to a human life.

SPEAKER_00 27:49

Yeah, like dog years versus people years kind of deal.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

Well, yeah, like you know, th this many hours in a baby pig's life is is equivalent to this many days in a in a human. Yeah. And so how important it is um that you treat them like immediately if you see a a problem.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Right, yeah, no, I'll find that and if you're listening to this, you'll have to go to YouTube to see it, but it'll be on the screen. Um I think that was Garza that did that. Yeah, it was so uh anyways, yeah. No, time timing is is a lot, it's important and it matters. Um but anyway, so a little shorter episode today, a little different, not as conversational, just kind of to the point. But we wanted to include, like we said, some of those where we reach out, touch the production side a little bit. Hopefully you find the following uh uh video attached here. Um interesting, useful as we just kind of maybe walk through it and talk about some of the same. But so like we talked about in the nursery, stepping in uh 83.8, so I've got it set at 85 still. Uh this is the cool room. It looks a little dirty at the moment, but uh we haven't pressure washed. Then you come into the nursery, uh, in this room, there's 18 pins, nine on each side, five by tens. As you can see, all the Januaries are in here right now. Lady Jans, uh be like for a state fair, things in the fall, Kansas City, that type of deal. So these all these will be ready here pretty soon, depending on when we drop this episode. Uh but early April is when this set'll be ready. So things we talked about, you can see a cup water is at the back. The uh pin size, the flooring, see where uh wherever carries it, the videos part of this is wire flooring, part of it's plastic. That's simply because I had that wire and I was a little short on plastic, and if you know anything, if you raise figs, you realize it sometimes you just gotta make it work. So uh I kinda like both, really doesn't matter to me. But you see feeders, feed line, and everything in here right now is a 616. And uh yeah, they've been in here a couple of weeks now, so they've kind of made the turn from a little bit of the wing crash and or not. Just real far in the whole scheme of things is coming out and going uh going over to the chip barn, which is just next door. Um if you're building a big farm, highly recommend attach your chip barn to your nursery so you can handle them one last time. That door there goes right into the chip barn. So all I gotta do is pull the pin, open the gate, run them across, and they're there. We don't have to handle them an extra time, but uh medicator, up on the wall. Um we don't run game on through the medicator. That would be fairly expensive, but uh makes a good bucket anyways for that. So kind of the ins and outs, not just the whole lobs really like we've talked about, kind of covered it in the episode, but uh works pretty good. The nursery beside this one or the room beside this one, the pens are five by eight, a little bit smaller. Um we can keep that sometimes. We'll split them and put little ones over there so we can keep it a little hotter if we need to. Um, but yeah. Looks like everything in here.

SPEAKER_02 31:09

They got grouped together in a pen of smaller pigs. Um Josh would have grouped them that way when we moved them in here.

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So, yeah, we've got our uh half-blood michans down here. They look really, really nice, I think. Um, if you're looking for a belted down-air frail half-blood F1 Mishan, um give me a shot, we gotta litter of them. They uh that'll be exactly what you need. So down here are the smallest bins. Uh you see they've got a milk feeder in there, they get milk once or twice a day. And uh kind of help them just nurse along just a little bit. And kind of the same as we're talking about, everybody's facilities set up a little different. This is as temperature controlled as I can make it, but still, uh, you'll notice a lot of the smaller ones are to this end. Um to the far end, actually closer to the fans, that stays a little probably a degree or two warmer than uh the end closest to the air inlets in the cool room. So uh sometimes if we've got the ability and it's empty, I try to put the smaller ones to that end, the bigger ones to the other end. Just uh little things. So, anyways, that's uh a little walk through the nursery this afternoon. Thank you all again for tuning in, and we will catch you next time. With that being said, uh you can think of? Good? As always, prayer requests, anything, like, follow, subscribe, all the all the good stuff, I guess. But in seriousness, if we can pray for you, let us know. Love to. And uh, we will catch you again next time on Showpick Central.