Come on get in the truck and ride w/ me

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A cripple [splayed legs]you may or may not get.No fear if he makes it to the dressing plant they might find her and chunk her out.

 

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Loading the trucks

 

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This fan is used to keep air moving on the birds,got to keep them cool. Chickens can not stant to get hot,they will die. Sometimes in the summer if it's hot you can loose thousands a day. I know people who have lost 15-20k in a day and these people do not help you pick them up,it's on you. Better hope you got a big family or friends to help.

 

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Smaller fan for inside the house,like I said gotta keep that air moving.

 

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What do we do with the dead chickens you might ask. In the 70s we would feed the dead to our brood sows[hogs love chicken dead or alive] then that got brought to grinding halt. Next was to dump them in a field and let the buzzards eat em.That got halted too and we have had a huge drop in the buzzard population here.Next were the pits which were 10,000gal drums that we dropped them in and they were nasty and stank real bad. Finally Clemson came up w/ this idea a chicken composter and that is what this is.

 

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What we do is take some of these hardcakes,which is wood shavings[what we use for litter] and chicken crap that has gotten wet under the waters and caked up hence hardcakes,not to tasty I may add.

 

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We will put a layer of this down and sometimes a layer of straw a layer of chickens and another of hardcake wet it down in this section,which repetes itself till the bin is full usually in 6 weeks. It will buid up a heat to around 150 degrees and compost the chickens in about 12 weeks. Belive it or not this does not smell or draw flies much.

 

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And after a while you move to this bin and all you have left is some bones and a few feathers

 

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See. This stuff grows some wonderfull flowers has bone and blood already mixed in. The litter in the houses is spread on our fields or sold to ferdlizer cos. to make organic ferdlizer.

 

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Now I know that this looks rough and nasty,but this is what the chicken you eat looks like down on the farm. Whether it's Sonny Purdues on some farm in Del. the farms around Gainsville Ga., Calif or Arkansas they are all about the same. I just thought you like to know some of the steps it went through before you picked it up at the Cols. or your local grociers shelf.