Poultry House Down by TomDart

Photography • Rural/Countryscapes • posted on May 22, 2012

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My wife cringes at the sight of a chicken truck, feathers flying as we pass it. For each truck full of chickens, there is one from the other direction passing by empty. We do eat chicken and I love free range brown eggs...it is not that chickens are a food source making her cringe. Stories of how broiler chickens are sometimes ill treated, then packed firmly into open cages for the ride to the processing plant...that is the cringe factor. Tales of chickens escaped from the trucks to become loved family pets are told as well as of Mike the Headless Chicken, living 18 months. Google will find that story right away if you are curious. According to university Internet sources, a good poultry house will have perhaps 0.75ft²(often less) per hen. One British agricultural site recommended about 0.60ft². per hen. We will pay the difference for true yard raised chickens, fence controlled areas for the chickens with less dense populations. In marketing, yard chicken are often called free-range, which they are not. The photo is a quick drive by snap of downed poultry houses. New modern ones already filled the gap at this farm. The new houses were perhaps 60' x 400'.

Comments (7)

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kgb224

12:56PM | Tue, 22 May 2012

Superb capture my friend. God Bless.

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etoiledumatin

2:23PM | Tue, 22 May 2012

J'aime bien ce cliché en noir et blanc

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Wolfmanw

3:21PM | Tue, 22 May 2012

Excellent Capture and I understand what your wife means. I too hate to see them packed so tightly in those cages.

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Erestorfan

4:13PM | Tue, 22 May 2012

Ugh!! I just read the story of Mike the Headless Chicken. I feel SO sorry for poor Mike, being kept alive with a brain stem and an ear, but other than that his head gone. How gross can you get!!! Mr. Olsen should just have finished the job!! My brother in law next door has chickens that roam on his property and ours and they lay the most wonderful eggs and when the time comes, they do taste better than chicken you buy in the store. I know a lot of people will be upset with this post, but the truth is I would rather eat chickens who have had a chance to roam around rather than being stuck in a tiny area with thousands of others...

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