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MacFarlane Pheasants’ Distant Relations

On September 23, 2014 in General by spope

Ten miles from our Janesville farm and office MacFarlane Pheasants has its second location. While only a fourth of the size of the main farm, Milton provides us with space to grow in the future, along with a number of other benefits. In fact, the only downside is the distance it puts between our employees. Here’s how and why we do it.

MacFarlane Pheasants rents the Milton location because the benefits of having a separate location are obvious. First, if there’s a problem with a bad batch of feed at the main location, the managers in Milton can rely on their own food stores until we fix the problem. The distance can also be useful when it comes to winter, where heavy snowfalls are more rare at our second location, minimizing potential mortality. Finally, the catastrophic nature of disease is lessened with the birds divided. Should an outbreak pop up at one location, the other half of the flock can at least have a better chance of not contracting illness. For a farm of our size, biosecurity can never be ignored, and a separate farm is part of these measures.

But distance relationships are tough, therefore a clear communication plan was developed to ensure that both farms maintain the same goals. Each week farm division managers meet, and it’s in these weekly meetings that goals are set and progress is reported. Face to face meetings are best for clarity, and the additional effort of arranging these meet-ups is worth the result.

The result of the split farms is that you can depend on MacFarlane Pheasants to supply birds when you need them. Moreover, the quality of those birds is increased, as our employees are able to spend quality time on every bird. It’s this attention to detail that has helped us grow into the nation’s leading supplier of adult pheasants and day-old pheasant chicks. By dividing our birds, we’ve become better together.
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