When the chicks arrive they are given the most careful attention by the poultryist.

a bid for a lucrative transport contract

...[they] sought the fairest stoned horses to spring their mares...

It would be a long time before he could be like the majority of these men of the road, who roamed until the hunger for drink and for women mastered them, and then went to work with a purpose in mind, and stopped when they had the price of a spree.