I didn't take this picture--my boss did. But this is Gouda, our 3rd chick (out of, as of now, ten--it's getting hectic), on June 4th. And this is a pretty good idea of what a chick run looks like when the chick is young: marbles in the water, brood model (that's a stuffed swan with a plastic whooper head attached), thermometer, food, green mats, heat lamps. The life of an isolation-reared whooping crane--not much like the marsh. (The marbles are to make the water shiny, and to help the chick get out if it falls in.)
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