Driving along the highway you may see a strangely shaped building. It’s a large rectangular structure facing, say, NS. Off the side of it are five per side rectangular structures facing EW. That’s your typical chicken farm. Each of the smaller buildings has 100,000 chickens who are raised from chicks to full weight in about six weeks. The ten side buildings are completely isolated from one another. That’s because if bird flu hits the farm, it only gets 100k instead of the total million. Bird flu is the most dangerous illness for chickens.
I don’t know the present-day numbers, but back when I knew them some fifteen years ago a meat company executive said they harvested 12 million birds per day for, IIR, 360 days per year. This is why chicken meat is so cheap. If all of them were cage free boutique chickens you’d probably be looking at $10/pound. BTW, that was just one company.
Before the FR conspiracy cabal gets going, at least look up some numbers and get an idea of why executives do the things they must do to keep the business going.
Yeah, but conspiracy theories are so much more interesting than facts.
I have three hens. They give us three eggs a day.
What are the symptoms of Bird Flu?...........
There is no need to describe an egg laying plant. You can smell the ammonia well before you get there.
Asking questions anymore makes you a conspiracy nut. It is not a conspiracy if it is happening.
Over a few years I sold hundreds of trucks of lumber to that company just for the construction of chicken houses.
They were all built they exact same way. 4x4 posts. 2x4-12’ to brace the posts and then they used them for purlins on the side walls and roof trusses. Metal side walls and metal roofing.
The other thing that helped me survive that time was ACCESS MATS. Also known as swap mats. I had a customer that built wooden road mats primarily used up swampy areas of Alberta.
They were built out of 2x8-8 and 2x8-14 in a three layer mat construction. I sold hundreds of trucks of just 2x8 8 & 14 Douglas Fir, Hem Fir and white fir.
These mats were used to drive oil drilling equipment to the sites. The mats were laid on the ground and driven on. There were also mats known as rig mats. They were built out of 6" Doug Fir timbers with a steel frame around them. They were laid down at the drilling site. The other timber mat used throughout North American are know as crane mats. They are made of 12 x 12-16'. They are laid on the ground for a crane and excavator to drive on when a pipeline is being installed. This was when we were doing 450K-700K US housing starts. Now, we are doing 1.2 to 1.6 million as a comparison. Many of these items are still used today. The difference was back then oil hit $150/barrel. Horizontal drilling was just being developed. They were drilling for oil everywhere they could. But hardly anyone was building house. We had to find new people that bought lumber.