Coal & Wood Chips

For all of your fuel needs, we supply coal & wood chips.

Coal is a combustible, sedimentary, organic rock (composed primarily of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen) formed from vegetation, which has been consolidated between other rock strata to form coal seams, and altered by the combined effects of microbial action, pressure and heat over a considerable time period.

Why is coal so important to everyday life worldwide? Coal is the world's most abundant, safe and secure fossil fuel - it is also clean and cost-effective.

Abundant - extensive reserves of coal are present in many countries; coal is mined in more than 50 countries.

Safe - coal is stable and hence the safest fossil fuel to transport, store and use.

Secure - abundant reserves mean that coal users are guaranteed security of supply at competitive prices, hence electricity supplies for industrial and domestic use are assured.

Clean - using current technologies, coal can now be burnt cleanly throughout the world.

Cost-effective - globally, coal is a competitive fuel for the generation of electricity, without which modern life would be virtually impossible. It is the major energy source for power generation worldwide.

Thanks to the World Coal Institute.

Baby Chicks in the Spring!

1. How to Handle
First of all, do not pick them up very much. Handling a lot might injure them. To pick them up, slip one hand under the chick's tummy, and put the other hand on top of the chick to hold it gently but firmly.

2. Get them warm
Immediately get them warm. If you just got your chicks, and you don't have a warm box (like 90 degrees F, very warm), you can put them in an open box IN THE OVEN, with the pilot light or the oven light bulb on, while you make them a warming box.

3. Water
Get them some WATER, in a heavy, low bowl that they cannot tip over, or a waterer that you buy from the pet store or feed store. A heavy ash tray makes a good temporary water-holder for a few chicks. Keep checking the water to make sure it is clean. They must have water at all times.

4. Food
If you don't have chick starter feed yet, you can feed them for a day or two on instant oatmeal, flaked infant cereal, or other whole-grain cereals. You can put whole grains (rice, wheat, barley, old-fashioned oats, anything) into the blender and blend them slightly. Do not blend completely to a powder --- the feed should have some "grits" in it. Leave the feed with them all the time --- they will stop eating when they have had enough.

Thanks to the LionsGrip!