FEEDING A NATION! REAL LIFE..REAL INSIDE LOOK AT COMMERCIAL CHICKEN FARMING
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I'm so excited about today's Vlog...we will go inside and see the inner workings of a commercial chicken house... we will discuss how it works... farming...history, feeding watering, power/gas bills...heating and cooling...and $$$$$ Cash profits!! Very interesting Vlog! Hope you enjoy!!
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Elaborate Gale? It's ok to speak your mind here....honestly I shared in your opinion until I saw how the operation worked...please spark more discussion on the chicken house...constructively of course.. I'd love to hear what you have to say as would many viewers
my mom and grandma is to raise chicken and I use to catch them thanks has changed a lot since they first started
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer technology of breeding stock is a great plus. But if more people had chickens in their own yards we could cut petroleum use for food transportation way down. 50% of food cost is transportation. And most people have enough bugs and scraps to raise a few chickens. And we would all be healthier.
What he most likely means BS on animal or people concerns are fore front but instead corporation profits.
These farmers are being worked to death and debt.
Stanley Banks I beg to differ. How many commercial farms have you ever been to?
These businesses are controlled by a "greater power" so many of these farmers left dairy farming for chicken and turkey business for the "quick sell". Most of these people were loosing their asses on the old farmstead and when the bird industry came along it sounded like a win win for everyone. It's all bs from the start. The big company builds the barns and gets the little man rolling on making the green, but soon when things get tough the companys threaten to sue and take everything the farer has and shut them down. It's big business bullying the small businesses into conforming to whatever they want, or else loose it all and face legal trouble.
Steve seems like a very nice guy, thanks for sharing the some numbers with us. Awesome tour. Keep it up Josh
I'm a poultry farmer from the UK, theres some similarities, but when it comes to the hygiene it's very different.
The houses are fully cleaned out, washed down, decontaminated then washed down again, every 6 or so weeks.
Ours is also a free range organic, so the chickens have a lot more room and they roam our and about in fields with trees etc
Hi sir ,how do you monitor the health of a chicken? Is there you use like device or something?
We have four 40/500 houses. We did that for 4 years and had two more houses built. 60/600 mega house. It’s a good business to be in. Lot more goes into it than people think.
I love the positive lean to all of your videos, even when dealing with tough situations you maintain the high-side. Honestly, it's encouraging. A little daylight on what we all 'hear about', but don't see is enlightening.
Funny how our culture want to dream big dreams of farms with critters running around everywhere eating grass and roaming about...like the Wizard of Oz...folks wanna shut their eyes to the food system in this country...I hope this opens folks eyes and gives them a better perspective...I know it gave me a better idea of how this whole process works and I was happy to share it...also made me feel a bit better after having seen all the detail that goes into making this a low stress environment for the birds
Living in coastal Maryland allows us to visit the Amish country of PA. Chickens and goats sharing the front yards, cows in the back. Love watching your videos, nice to find something so interesting that we can feel comfortable allowing our Daughter to watch along with us. I keep an eye out each day for your next video.
I helped a guy at a chicken farm. It is amazing how fast those birds grow. There is a lot of stuff that that farmer dose that did not get to hear about. He problem has a back up generator also in case the power goes out. It cost about 26,000 years ago. The man I helped found out the hard way in the fact when the power went out he did not have all the new way. So after he lost 80% of his flock he updated then. And that was 4 houses like the one you were in. Hey thanks for you video I enjoyed it.
My wife’s uncle used to have 3 40x400 chicken houses and my in-laws took care of them for about a year. It is pretty neat to see. I actually helped my mother in-law go in and remove the dead chickens while we was visiting them.
I appreciate this video! So much great information that the typical consumer just doesn’t know and isn’t connected to! As a Poultry Science major and as someone who was raised in agriculture, primarily poultry, I am grateful for those who wish to spread true information to diminish the misinformation presented to the public! This barn is smaller than many of the farms I have been on, but the management seems to be the same...the poultry industry is so incredibly complex yet works so efficiently to produce an economically affordable high-protein source that many take for granted.
Thank you for this video. My husband and I are contemplating going into the chicken farming business.
My uncle worked in the chicken business. I remember taken a tour at place he worked for called Country Pride. This company did everything from the egg to processing. They even mixed the feed. They were in Maryland. Later down the road he was hired buy China yes China to run there government owned chicken factory's. The last company he worked for as the CEO was owed by a Canadian company. The cool thing was the chicken factory was in the Bahamas. The company supplied most if not all the chickens for the island's. They had 4 or 5 chicken house's with 10,000 birds per house. I was able to visit this plant around 1995 when the aircraft carrier I was on pulled in for a liberty call for three days. Unfortunately someone set fire to the plant. So they were rebuilding the plant. infact they were processing the chickens under tarps. The cold storage building and the office building was finished. Sorry the long post!
Cool video! I am in and out of chicken houses everyday... I am one of the ones that spreads the wood shavings you saw, but we are in Alabama doing it! To cap the top of the litter like this, we usually put one load of shavings per house, and use spreader trucks with 24' beds on them which hold approximately 10 yards of shavings.
I used to work in one simular in the UK. Technology changes quick
Josh, used to live less than 1/4 mile from a chicken house run by a corporation. Glad you had your friend on. No comparison to what I knew
This was so informative Josh. Good to see chickens who are being raised in a good way.
Thanks Josh! Blast from the past. My father's uncle did this many years ago in Alabama. My sister and I were once sent to ring a chicken for supper. I was six or younger and couldn't believe my eyes. Haha. Was the best though.
for such a small channel your production quality is insane! Love these videos so much man, can't wait to see more videos.
Man I try...hopefully I have an eye for this kinda thing...working with 2 people makes it 10 times harder to edit and record...especially when I'm not normal sized lol
Hey, you're doing a great job so far! the pace of your videos are nice and relaxing which is one of the things I've really noticed and appreciated. also love the positive vibes, so hard to find a good wholesome channel to watch these days lol
Insane?
The time I spent working at the chicken abattoir, I had the opportunity to go to the farm and see the whole process from farm to the packaging back at abattoir, like this video, I was impressed how well the chickens were treated, the only thing I thought needs looking at was the transport of the birds from farm to abattoir. I’m Australian, so I’m not sure how things are done in other countries, and I’m talking about one company here, but here they stuffed 8x12ft cages with the birds until they couldn’t fit another one in and loaded onto trucks, it was common to see chickens when they arrived at the abattoir with broken legs.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a meat eating, hunting, self sufficient type of person, I can only tell the truth on what I experienced, the farm was great, the kill process was great, the transport in between, not so much. I’m wondering if you or anyone who actually knows first hand, how they are transported there and if they do it better than what I experienced here?
Keep up the cool videos, cheers 👍
Great video, Josh! Hopefully this will help educate others and make them realize that we need larger poultry farms to feed America.
My father is a farmer and has turkey houses. Our turkey houses are very similar to Steve’s chicken houses and they operate in a similar way. Our turkeys are sold to Butterball, so the next time you eat a Butterball turkey it may be from our farm.
All of your videos provide great information. You also provide a lot of knowledge that is very helpful.
Your videos are also very well shot and edited. I really like your original theme song too. You are a talented musician. I’d love to see you post more videos of you playing your guitar and singing! You remind me a little of one of my favorite bands, American Aquarium.
Keep up the great work, buddy!
Thanks for the complements buddy...oh I love me some American Aquarium too...the lead singer is from my county..about 2 towns over...met all those guys from the band...used to play in a band or two...I'd always put my heart into it..and watch the other boys fade away..booo...now I have this creative outlet...which takes up more time lol :)
I think you need smaller farms and more support to smaller farmers in the government.
Very informative! I know the large scale production of our meat animals is required to feed our population here in the U.S. but I was not aware that it could be done without the use of routine antibiotic use. Never heard of PLT before, but looking into it outside your vlog made a nice info-snack on chemistry (chemist at heart). Looking forward to upcoming episodes.
we sold the cows 7 years ago dont miss the pay but i do miss the cows at times.
A labor of love for sure brotha
Thanks so much for your time
Wow! I was born in Dover and grew up in neighboring New Philadelphia. I love Amish country near Sugarcreek!
Very cool!
People the reason the chickens grow so fast is because of high protein feed and they are usually eating 16+hours a day. Lights are dimmed so they’re not running around burning up fat. With the lights dimmed they are more calm. Ohh yeah antibiotic has been illegal for years now, they’re not in the feed ingredients. 11 yrs broiler farm exp so I know a thing or two
People believe most anything they hear especially if it's a conspiracy foodie documentary...heck my sister thinks the government is poisoning our air with plastics bhahahhahaha
Nope. Our lights are as bright as they get 18 hrs a day.
@@garyzimmerman6316 you’re not on the tournament system I take it or you raise 4 weeks old birds. I raise 7 weeks birds and if the lights are at max brightness, the last week, birds will have heart attack from eating too much
Per house, under 25 mortality is good during the last week, if it’s over 50 something is wrong
I worked up there on the gas wells for some months. They are great people up there and plenty of good places shop & to eat at.
Catch 2,500 birds by hand? IM IN!!! 😂
I liked that you shared this but this is a "Factory farm" 25,000 birds is alot in one area. I am glad I have my own girls 38 of them . They love being outside eating grass, bugs and whatever yummy things come in front of them (frogs, snakes mice and rats) I know yuk. They are happy girls they come in at night to roost I lock them in for their protection. My oldest so far are 1.5 years old they are still laying and will retire on the farm. They are for eggs only I will get more as needed. Chickens are very cool as pets with their own personalities and such. I know the business you could not do what I do. I sell my eggs from my house and it pays to feed the girls not completely but I'm retired with my pension so mainly they are my pets. They are spoiled girls and pretty much run the whole place. Thanks for sharing
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These farmers are feeding America. You're 38 chickens are a hobby. This is how alot of people make their living here in west Louisiana and east texas. Pilgrim's pride contract broiler growers
Hey Josh there is a laying house across the field from me they 75.000 hens in them lots of eggs I'll try to get you a vid of it pretty cool
Oh good can make video about construction poultry house,design bio security
Thank you for posting this informative video. For those curious of farming operations, I find it fascinating.
I do too...I think this is one of the most informative interesting videos I have produced...just interesting to see how it all works
Awesome video, I've been trying to find info on hen houses for a new venture, but there's not much online. I've done laying hens before, but I mean we're talking a few dozen chickens not hundreds or thousands. Thanks!
I know this is an old video, but my aunt and uncle live next to chicken farms and u cant beat the smell of chicken houses😂
I really need to move to somewhere like this.
Theres loads of chicken houses around here and i never knew what they looked like inside
Awesome ....glad I could show ya...it was my first time in a commercial chicken house too
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer the ones here can get kind of...ripe during the summer. Not fun D:
SUPER INTERESTING - Thanks for the education.
we grow for 9 weeks in 8 60x600 houses . most of the poltry farms around here use rotems but the farm in the video uses a chore time computer. also people say we abuse and torture the chickens but in realty they have all the food and water they want heat and cool air. also a 9 week old chicken weights about 8 1/2 - 9 pounds he is probably growing 6 pound birds
@Kevin Pereira Commercial grown chickens receive better veterinary care, nutrition, living conditions and attention then any backyard bird does
I grow a 9 week bird as well. Last flock mine were average weight of 10 pounds. Sucks that last week carrying out dead birds.
He’s probably more of a 5-5.5 lb bird. We raise an average 6.4 lb bird. Raise them 7 weeks
I've been in one of those chicken houses just after the chicks were delivered. Pretty loud with all the "cheepin'".
After staying at my inlaw's place I would advice people NEVER buy a house down wind from a chicken farm. Every so often this chicken farm near my inlaw's place would open up their vents to air those long houses and my God there goes my dinner.
It's the fans blowing
Very nice..I enjoyed seeing this...I remember when I was a teenager and worked on a chicken farm at that time was no computers and I think he had 10,000 birds I thought was a lot..but gues not after seeing this..again enjoyed and keep it coming..best wishes to pou and the mrs
Thanks!
Wow chicken farms come a long way... Lewisburg wv have a lot of em, thanks for sharing have a great week
Thanks buddy
I get it. Big Chicken is what it is. If you don’t want to partake, then don’t. Everyone wants to cry foul “lol” over factory farming but then still expect cheap chicken at their local grocery store. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. I work in an industry that serves the large factory poultry farms (food safety industry) and I understand the process because I have seen it first hand. This is why my family is working to raise our own chickens and ducks in a “free range” method. While the large farms are disturbing to the senses they are a necessity. God gave us chickens to eat. This is their purpose.
Was working on AC at Tyson Foods when a lady started yelling on walk-in talkie that a chicken was still alive at a station way passed where it shouldn’t have been.
Interesting tour!! Having chicken for supper!!
Me too!
Would love to spend a few weeks on his chicken farm for a learning experience. Retiring this year from DoD and have all the time in the world...😀
It was a very interesting tour for sure....not what the "FOODIE DOCUMENTARIES" want you to see! A safe...environmentally friendly habitat for chickens to live out their lives....but then again every animal in America is a pet nowadays.......lol....I have a coop out front of my house and a few folks have commented that my chickens were overcrowded.......10 hens in a 96 square foot area....people are crazy sometimes
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I have a great respect for the farmer way of life. In my prior life I was a commercial fisherman the only difference between the two is that one is working on water and the other is on land....😀 Joseph Godwin ( using my wife account)
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer ask them how many chickens they own?
More technology. It take a rocket scientist to raise chickens. I've raised huge flocks of frying hens and egg chickens. Been their done that, but not all that tech stuff. If our electric grid is ever fried, no pun intended, we're out of luck. Thanks Stoney for your efforts. P.S. We turned our huge chicken barn into a hog barn. That would make a great hog barn. Except today it's done differently. Regards...
Here in the Twin Cities, MN we have a reporter who specializes in unique local stories. A while ago he did a feature about his brother who had to close down his dairy farm (multi-generational) because he could no longer compete with the big outfits. It was just tragic. Another thing that happened in Minnesota a few years ago was the rampant spread of avian flu across a large part of our state. That hit a number of poultry farmers hard. A thank you to Steve Miller and others like him who help keep our country fed.
You do good videos I was raised on farm and it's good to go down memory lane
Worked in one of these for a while worst part by far is cleaning the shit from the things that keep eggs from breaking idk what it's called
great videos Josh love your channel..keep up the great work man
Not much changed since I helped friends with there chicken houses in the 90’s.
This was cool! I love these types of videos. Keep em coming!
Thanks for showing us the inside of a factory farm and how it adds up!
awesome videos chicken eggs are the best
Gotta love the scene in Honkytonk Man.....When Clint Eastwood says....So whens the last time you saw chicken shit Billy Bob....when you were looking in the mirror
Hope you ate a meal at Der Dutchman while you were there. Haven't been since I was a wee lad, maybe 40 years ago. I grew up not far from there, New Philly.
Thanks for the inside look. Was happy to hear he was antibiotic free. Sounds like the industry might be shifting a bit. What about the feed quality?
Not sure on feed....but I'd imagine it's pretty darn close to what you get at your local feed store
I am glad I got my own chickens all natural!
I have to say,ya I've always WONDER about how the chicken fram houses work,t,y for videos,
Great vid Josh!
Keep them coming!
That's incredible money for farming. I know it has a $200,000 outlay but at $4000-5000 a month you've paid it off completely in only 4 years and then have a higher revenue stream then the majority of people
That's what I was thinking
HAHA It's not as easy as that..................lol
I think for all the work that goes into that hen house its only moderately profitable.. 4k is a lot of money for a man to take home every month for what is part of all the work he does on his farm... but This guy he has to work till he grinds his legs down to stubs to make that 4K a month, and he obviously is needed else where on his farm too.. The scary thing is, that building could burn down.. the price of feed could go up.. chick meat prices could drop. Who knows.. that guy is riding a leaf in the wind, and doing it for 4k and all the chicken shit he can spread on his fields.. (please ask him how much he save on fertilizer!)
There is a whole lot easier ways to make that kind of money, and most of them don't require putting your boots in a condom to do it. There should be national holiday for chicken farming.
Dont forget the interest on the money to build the barns, land payment, equipment to haul litter away, taxes on buildings this size. it can work great along with your farm but the start up cost can eat you alive. good video thogh
Also by the time the barns are paid off most of the time they need major upgrades and improvements and their useful life is starting to wear down I still believe their is a buck to be made but it takes a lot of capital to get there
Thanks to all Farmers out there
You and Steve Miller should've done some guitar playin'. Maybe "Fly Like an Eagle", or "Take the Money and Run".
That's the cleanest chicken house I've ever seen lol
Max Rider most are like that lol.
He said each house profits around $4-5k a mth after billls & expenses. So, if a house makes $10k, that’s about $5k worth in bills & expenses for that house. Am I correct in my calculation?
. 7 cents a pound is what pilgrims pride pays. A house in Louisiana pays out about 37000 annually. A new batch every 6 weeks
I was looking at buying 4 houses. They are 36x450 the 4 houses gross 145k a year. After expanses your net pay would be around 106k
Thank you my dream is to be one of the most successful Chicken farmers in America 🍗
My cousins do this. They have three chicken coops and rotate through about 15,000 birds a month.
Definitely a money making operation, but....
there are major costs involved.
Those computers look the same as the ones we use in our new hog barn,
Hey Steve, Ethyl and I are good for chicken bidness! We eat our share of that 60 million. And buy your kind Steve! Antibiotic free. Wow, I knew farming was a big investment, takes a special kind of risk taking person! Neat, a chicken composting toilet!
Real nice job on the video, Josh.
Great video. 👍
We also have chicken farm and most of the information is same but this farm is automatic but our is semi automatic.
Great video 👍
nice controllers that you are using.
Dude I love your channel it is my dream to have a little farm one day trying to save up and hunting for a good location
We have to have these to feed the country no way around it. I have been looking into poultry my self it is not a cheap investment but a good investment a way bigger investment in egg production same size house 5 times the money.
i have the same controllers in my chicken houses. i grow for allens harims 16k birds in each of my houses
Are you still doing this?
Awesome men, I'm a farmer myself
Great stuff
Totally factory farming! Not a question ..
That is cool automatic chicken farm.....thanks....
I enjoyed this video
Glad you enjoyed it...I was very curious myself and it really set my mind at ease knowing how well controlled the environment was and how much air circulation and attention was brought to the comfort of the birds
Great video Josh, enjoyed it!
That’s a lot of numbers but hey that chook house is smart set up. Liking vids👍
Valuable information
I've done both meat and eggs chickens but only as much as 150 birds . Good info here . Thanks and christ , you gotta be 6 ft 8 standard door opening height !
good video thanks for sharing
Thanks Stan!
Great video! Very informative!
Wow 👍
Imagine if all you needed to be happy was a box to sit on.
take a long hard look at your couch my friend....are we so different..Warm house, food, water and a nice box to sit on?
Josh you Gentle Giant you. Love your TH-cam channel buddy.
Love. This
6-8 inches at max .6667 feet so 40x500 size chicken house so that means .6667x40x500 or 480 cubic yards or 125 to 150 tons, so in other words this guy knows his stuff.
What about a watering system?
water comes down from the ceiling automated to keep the birds watered
Very interesting, thanks Josh!
Another good one Josh.
May I ask, Sis... is it common for overseas farms to have non-storied cages??
Nice learning video, nothing but chicken in my chicken.
cool
when you com to georgia you can se are farm 8 houses
Hugo Leon come to B.C and see twice that size
This was great. I really enjoyed that. I watched while eating chicken for lunch.
Awesome.. good subject Josh
I had 4 houses 42x500 grew birds for 15 years and will never do it again...companies got Rick farmers didn't make squat....check the mods that is supposed to be delivered with feed to the farm...they DO have chemicals in them...one is plant based arsenic in place of antibiotics
Good job Josh!
Woww.. great video 👏👍💪
Thanks for the video.
Ur very welcome buddy