The family who owns a farm in Delanson is heartbroken after a fire Saturday rendered their barn a total loss and left hundreds of animals dead.
Some of the animals were able to either escape or were pulled from the barn. Christine and Bob Chandler are co-owners of Mariaville Farm on Duanesburg Churches Road. The family-owned farm has been providing locally raised meats to the community for over 15 years.
“It’s not even the money,” Christine told NEWS10, “so much as the fact that I love these animals.”
They lost 4 of their sows and all their baby pigs, as well as 8 adolescent pigs, and most of their laying hens. They believe over 200 chickens died.
“I was told though that they did probably die quickly from smoke inhalation and not from being burned to death,” Christine said.