What happens to baby turkeys when the electric goes off...

Have you ever had a power outage at your house?  What did you do (or what WOULD you do) for water? Heat? Cooking? Light?

Remember a couple weeks ago I told you that baby turkeys like temps
around 90?  What happens when it gets too cool is that they pile on top
of each other to keep warm, and then the ones on the bottom of the pile
suffocate.

This past Sunday we woke up at 3:30am and the electric was off - no idea
how long it had been out.  Ken's first thought was "the turkeys...!" 
He got up immediately and went out to fire up the generator - before he
even checked the turkeys.  Then he went to the brooder house, and sure
enough, they were in a pile but were already warming up and starting to
come off of the pile and spread out.  We found out later the power had
been off for about an hour and a half.  In that amount of time, we lost 5
turkeys.  That's how fragile they are!

Altogether, we were out of power for about 7 hours, so we would have
lost many more, if not all of them.  We're thanking God that he gave us
the foresight to invest in a good generator last summer - and it WAS an
investment!  We are so reliant on electricity...water for the animals,
sometimes keeping them warm/cool, keeping our large freezers running,
etc.