Extension’s newborn chick information shared by media
The Portland Press Herald incorporated University of Maine Cooperative Extension information about newborn chicks in an article about mail-order chicks delivered by the U.S. Postal Service arriving to farmers dead. According to UMaine Extension, newly hatched chicks can survive for up to two days without food and water because they draw nutrition from yolks in the eggs from which they hatched. The Sun Journal, the Denver Post and Farm Forum shared the Press Herald article.