There is a 330′ X 30′ poultry shed within a mile of our farm. For years the building was used as a flea market. Over the past few years, the building has sat idle. We could always use more brooder space, so Ryan George took on the task of negotiating a lease and then renovating the barn. Our farm has invested a lot of time and equipment in this facility and the first chicks went into the barn this week.
The lighting is all dimmable LED’s. We went away from nipple waterers and went with small automatic satellite drinkers. We put in a new ventilation system and lined the walls with new steel. We can put groups of 11,000 pheasants chicks into the barn every 4 weeks (using the “A” room and “B” room system. so the barn can handle over 50,000 chicks per summer and we can use the barn for white bird (meat) production in the winter.
Thanks to Ryan and to Chris Theisen and to Troy Cisewski for their efforts to get the barn ready in a timely manner.
