Another former Chicken farmer here. Owner of a "factory farm" that sent over 2 million chicken's per year to your table.
There are some serious diseases that can get into our operations. Biosecurity is very strict but you can't control the wild bird population from flying over and hanging around the ranch.
In the past there have been several large outbreaks of some type of avian influenza that have caused large depopulation events. Once your farm gets infected, the only solution is to kill all the chickens in place and compost them onsite.
Thankfully it never happened to me but a few years before I sold the farm several ranches nearby had to kill the entire flock, 300k-500k chickens all in one farm and compost them directly inside the barns and close the farm for several months until they could start over. This costs the farmer huge amounts of money and most can't survive going several months without getting paid. I don't think anyone is faking this.
When my father was still in the business there were cull numbers like this at big ranches almost every other year. This number is high but not all that unusual.
Hello Fren! Yes, you are spot on about the wild birds, impossible to control. My neighbor was a contract producer for Perdue, he never had any issues (worried all the time though), nor did we, thankfully. I couldn't imagine culling 300K-500K birds. I'm not stating anyone is faking anything, I just know how controlled we were and know that large commercial farms are even more controlled. The timing and scale of this all causes me to question everything. I feel for the those that have losses, it is difficult if, you can recover from for sure..
There is reason to be skeptical. I have heard that once a government veterinarian confirms the presence of high pathogenic influenza that the government takes over, not even allowing the owner on the farm until they kill all the chickens on site.
That is very interesting & unnerving at the same time. I wonder how a farm would fare that testing say if, they were in opposition to the current political party....eek....thanks for the info :)
Nobody’s faking it and also there isn’t gonna be a shortage of chickens (not due to this) the number of chickens affected is equivalent to like two days of American chicken eating this is just more fear mongering bullshit. I see the chicken ranch fear bullshit posted almost every other day here it’s sickening and retarded
Never name what you intend to eat. And, after tending to a few hundred, I didn't see them as individual anymore. They became a large unit. Only one or two would stand out, but by the time that occurred they were off to auction or another buyer. Occasionally, I would pull a few here and there for my own separate flock, but not often...🙂
I hate killing animals. I have never hunted or would I. (Fully support the right of those that do). Part of normal operations of a poultry farm include culling the weak and sick animals daily. I had 250k chickens onsite at each flock, so you get numb to it after a few years.
Hard to say really... I guess... But with all the fake news these days one have to keep an open mind about everything you know. But as you recall the Covid scam right? It's like the boy who cried wolf! Nerveless good insight thanks
Another former Chicken farmer here. Owner of a "factory farm" that sent over 2 million chicken's per year to your table. There are some serious diseases that can get into our operations. Biosecurity is very strict but you can't control the wild bird population from flying over and hanging around the ranch. In the past there have been several large outbreaks of some type of avian influenza that have caused large depopulation events. Once your farm gets infected, the only solution is to kill all the chickens in place and compost them onsite. Thankfully it never happened to me but a few years before I sold the farm several ranches nearby had to kill the entire flock, 300k-500k chickens all in one farm and compost them directly inside the barns and close the farm for several months until they could start over. This costs the farmer huge amounts of money and most can't survive going several months without getting paid. I don't think anyone is faking this.
When my father was still in the business there were cull numbers like this at big ranches almost every other year. This number is high but not all that unusual.
It’s a blip, not worth the breathless fear porn.
I am with you.
I think this is showcasing the level of trust a lot of folks have in our kindly overlords, at this point.
Which is... zero.
There is the bedrock point. They can do anything they want with just a "blip." It's all in the promotion.
Hello Fren! Yes, you are spot on about the wild birds, impossible to control. My neighbor was a contract producer for Perdue, he never had any issues (worried all the time though), nor did we, thankfully. I couldn't imagine culling 300K-500K birds. I'm not stating anyone is faking anything, I just know how controlled we were and know that large commercial farms are even more controlled. The timing and scale of this all causes me to question everything. I feel for the those that have losses, it is difficult if, you can recover from for sure..
@ u/2020voter and u/TrumpsGoldenHair
If only the farmers had Remdesivir and enough ventilators, they could have saved them all!
Thank goodness we people have such drugs and technology or they may have decided to just cull us all too.
uh... wait a second...
kek...
There is reason to be skeptical. I have heard that once a government veterinarian confirms the presence of high pathogenic influenza that the government takes over, not even allowing the owner on the farm until they kill all the chickens on site.
That is very interesting & unnerving at the same time. I wonder how a farm would fare that testing say if, they were in opposition to the current political party....eek....thanks for the info :)
Nobody’s faking it and also there isn’t gonna be a shortage of chickens (not due to this) the number of chickens affected is equivalent to like two days of American chicken eating this is just more fear mongering bullshit. I see the chicken ranch fear bullshit posted almost every other day here it’s sickening and retarded
Never name what you intend to eat. And, after tending to a few hundred, I didn't see them as individual anymore. They became a large unit. Only one or two would stand out, but by the time that occurred they were off to auction or another buyer. Occasionally, I would pull a few here and there for my own separate flock, but not often...🙂
Sounds like when I was teaching classrooms with 37 kids xD
Me.I do not like them to be killed specially for nothing.
I hate killing animals. I have never hunted or would I. (Fully support the right of those that do). Part of normal operations of a poultry farm include culling the weak and sick animals daily. I had 250k chickens onsite at each flock, so you get numb to it after a few years.
I think you meant killing them whilst they are awake :)
Commercial poultry are stunned before getting the knife. I always thought it was a animal rights type thing.
Hard to say really... I guess... But with all the fake news these days one have to keep an open mind about everything you know. But as you recall the Covid scam right? It's like the boy who cried wolf! Nerveless good insight thanks