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To: Wonder Warthog

A heat lamp with a red bulb and a wooden coop my hubby built from scrap is way cheaper...lol


24 posted on 07/08/2011 9:25:28 AM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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To: MsLady
"A heat lamp with a red bulb and a wooden coop my hubby built from scrap is way cheaper...lol"

Sure is, but commercial chicken operations operate on a vastly different scale these days. Back in the 1950's my dad went in for "chicken farming" for a while, and we had a few hundred birds (raising chicks to friers), and thought it was a "large scale" operation. Nowadays, a "chicken farm" will have tens of thousands of birds in multiple specially designed "chicken houses". The old story of "get big or get out".

45 posted on 07/08/2011 4:30:43 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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