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75slant6

75slant6

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Last spring we bought a farm to put up 2 organic, GMO free, pastured, layer barn, chicken houses. Exactly a year ago yesterday we had the closing on the farm and today we got the first flock of chickens in the first barn!! Barn 2 will be getting birds Tuesday morning. I'll post more pics tmrw, right now this is the only one I have.

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Cool. I will expect shipments of big brown eggs on a regular basis. lol
 
This country needs more hard working farm people.

Heck, if I lived close by to you, I would apply to be a Chicken specialist intern now :D

congrats and best of luck, God Bless you. :)
 
Congrats and welcome to money struggles the rest of your career. We are not farmers for a large profit just for the love of doing it. Right now grain is very cheap so if you are buying and mixing your own food it may help you profit.
 
here in s w Missouri, huge broiler and turkey g rowers. the farmer puts up the bldg., furnishes labor, sawdust, ( NO bldg. ain't cheap!), the co. furnishes birds, feed,.....

I have a few hens for our own use, and sell a few to pay for feed. free range birds, locked in roost a t night. they molted, quilt laying last winter. I had to BUY eggs!!!!!!!! wow !!! the only ones I could eat were EG Best and another brand of expensive eggs!!!!!!! LOL BUT such a difference in taste!!!!!

non rural people also don't get the fact that farming and ranching is NOT just a way to make a living, it is a lifestyle, a way of life. not necessarily easy, not always profitable, BUT... God Bless the farmer!!

to wake up everyday and walk out the front door, and see green grass, livestock, fresh air.... NO people..... I can not put a price tag on it.....
 
what company did you go with to run the food and water supply for those birds?



and speaking of farmers...

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7yZdOl_e_c"]Ram Trucks Commercial "Farmer" Long Version - YouTube[/ame]
 
barbee6043 said:
here in s w Missouri, huge broiler and turkey g rowers. the farmer puts up the bldg., furnishes labor, sawdust, ( NO bldg. ain't cheap!), the co. furnishes birds, feed,.....

I have a few hens for our own use, and sell a few to pay for feed. free range birds, locked in roost a t night. they molted, quilt laying last winter. I had to BUY eggs!!!!!!!! wow !!! the only ones I could eat were EG Best and another brand of expensive eggs!!!!!!! LOL BUT such a difference in taste!!!!!

non rural people also don't get the fact that farming and ranching is NOT just a way to make a living, it is a lifestyle, a way of life. not necessarily easy, not always profitable, BUT... God Bless the farmer!!

to wake up everyday and walk out the front door, and see green grass, livestock, fresh air.... NO people..... I can not put a price tag on it.....
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We have the same deal set up, we furnish the facilities, utilizes and labor, the company owns the birds and furnishes the feed and pay us so much per dozen to produce their eggs for them.

As far as pay goes, let's just say my wife wouldn't have agreed to go into this if the pay wasn't good... After the payment comes out but before any other expenses come out we'll be making twice as much per year than we grossed the last 2 years combined
 
75slant6 said:
Love that commercial!!! As far as feed I'm not sure what company they go through to get the feed, and the water comes from the local water company. We drilled a well too but it's not hooked up yet
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I meant the hardware

I take it your not going out there each morning with a bag of feed and handfeeding them ;)

I figured it will most likely be Big Dutchman or Choretime
 
diymirage said:
I meant the hardware

I take it your not going out there each morning with a bag of feed and handfeeding them ;)

I figured it will most likely be Big Dutchman or Choretime
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I have hauled a ton of that equipment to chicken farms/egg producers all over the southeastern and southern US.

I hauled a bunch to a farm in southern PA, that produces 1 million eggs a day! That's a lot of omelets.
 
no kidding
some of those farms are ridiculously big

ive been to one that had the battery style cages
each level was four cages high
and there were four levels

I cant for the life of me remember where this farm was, all I remember is that it was build on the border of two different states, and they used the cheaper electrical supply from the one state and drained their sewage in the other state, which had lower water rates

pretty impressive farm for sure



the warehouse you trucked from (here in Holland MI) supplies all of the Americas, all the way out to Egypt



what really cracks me up is how far we have let this "free range chicken" nonsense go

did you know Big Dutchman has a "free range" cage with a scratch pad in it?
this cage has a main feedline running down the side of it where the chicken can eat
but it also has a 2 inch pipe running thought the center of it
the pipe has tiny holes drilled into it and small amounts of feed fall out of it onto a pad of artificial grass where the chicken can then scratch for it, like they would on the back 40 of a farm yard, like they did in the 1800s

great idea, but a little too far if you ask me
 
diymirage said:
I meant the hardware

I take it your not going out there each morning with a bag of feed and handfeeding them ;)

I figured it will most likely be Big Dutchman or Choretime
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Not bags... 5 gallon buckets. :poke:

Actually all our equipment came from Big Dutchman... Aren't you the one who use to live down here in Russellville and worked at Big Dutchman?
 
Bad Sport said:
I have hauled a ton of that equipment to chicken farms/egg producers all over the southeastern and southern US.

I hauled a bunch to a farm in southern PA, that produces 1 million eggs a day! That's a lot of omelets.
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Uhh, you didn't by any chance deliver some to south central Ky did you?? Russellville or Lewisburg?
 
75slant6 said:
Not bags... 5 gallon buckets. :poke:

Actually all our equipment came from Big Dutchman... Aren't you the one who use to live down here in Russellville and worked at Big Dutchman?
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that was me allright

I spend about a month in Russellville learning to operate some machinery they had at a place called biltrite, which was owned by Big Dutchman and about to be moved to Michigan
they had a operational galvanization tub, right next door to the middle school :D

that was the beginning of my 8 year career at Big Dutchman
 
I started working there just about the time they moved from 40th street to john F donnely drive

I started out as a machine operator, running brake presses and shears they used to make the wire and stamped steel parts of their cages

as they outsourced my machines one by one I ended up in the warehousing part of it and eventually became second guy to the shipping and handling guy at the docks (a guy named Chad was in charge, I don't know if you know him or not)

if you have picked up or delivered loads at Big Ducthman there is a good chance I have been in your trailer :)
 
diymirage said:
as they outsourced my machines one by one I ended up in the warehousing part of it and eventually became second guy to the shipping and handling guy at the docks (a guy named Chad was in charge, I don't know if you know him or not)

if you have picked up or delivered loads at Big Dutchman there is a good chance I have been in your trailer :)
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That's too funny, I'm sure you were. When I started hauling for them it was from John F Donnely. Most of the time I would just come in and drop and hook, getting my paperwork out of the toolbox on the wall by the door. I think I did 3 or 4 live loads out of there.
 
they liked doing the drop and hook thing
makes it a whole lot easier for us to load on our own schedule :)

sound like we may have crossed paths once or twice before
 
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