From Chicks to Chickens

Here are some 50 day old birds waiting for the catch crew to load them up.

Live haul tractor waiting to be filled.

It is dark in the barn to keep the chickens calm during the catch. The catch crew loads each chicken by hand into the crate. A crew member will pick up to 8 chickens at a time and place them into the different compartments of the crate.

This is how they keep the chickens cool while catching a house. The big fan blows hose to spray the chickens to keep them cool.

This is how they keep the chickens cool while they are waiting to leave. They spray them with water.

Forklift driver unloading another crate. It only takes him a few seconds to load a full crate onto the truck and remove an empty one to take into the barn.

Here is a forklift putting a full crate of chickens on the truck. Catch crew in the background waiting to start House #6.

 

 

Here is a full crate being placed onto the live haul truck for transport full of chickens.

Here is an 18 wheel live haul tractor trailer loaded and getting ready to leave the farm.

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