Just weeks after Frank Brown was ordered to remove all the farm animals from his property in the rural community of Summerford, N.L., he’s at the Gander International Airport picking up more animals: 1,200 chirping chicks that sing a high-pitched song and garner looks from travellers as they’re wheeled out of the airport.
These day-old turkeys, pheasants and chickens — cute for now, says Brown — arrived in cargo crates from Ontario, and will be sold to residents in nearby communities, where they’ll live in backyard chicken coops and eventually become meat and egg producers.
“There’s a demand in central Newfoundland, on
