Gno Broiler Production in Nassarawa, Nigeria

According to Exhibit 3, California and South Atlantic are the top two areas that have significant difference in the number of farms having flock size over 50,000. Since these two locations contain about 45% of farm with flock size between 50,000 and 99,000 and about 46% of farms with flock size 100,000 and over, regional offices should be set and more selling effort should be invested. The specific numbers are as following:

Factory farming is a practice that is used to keep up and sustain the supply and demand for different types of animal meat. A poultry factory farm that will be discussed is Perdue Farms. Perdue Farms is established and operated in the United States and has a processing facility where they raise and slaughter chickens. Perdue Farms is meeting the needs of the consumers by supplying and mass producing poultry for consumption. One may view this of being a success by having a well-established, profitable business that is fulfilling their responsibilities to the consumers. While that may be true, they are not fulfilling their ethical responsibility to the animals. These animals are in close quarters where they are nested in urine and feces. There can even be instances where they will be sitting on or near deceased chickens until their cage is chosen for slaughter. Since these animals are massively produced the use of hormones and antibiotics are used to sustain life and growth. On top of the poor, dirty living conditions these animals are also giving additives that will eventually make it to the consumer. The process has an impact on those employed by the corporation and those who purchase products from them.

According to the Wholesome Poultry Products Act if Polyface expanded and produced more chickens (>20,000) it would have to outsource the processing of chickens to a certified slaughterhouse. This contract would be expensive for Polyface and would also limit the use of slaughter waste (internal organs) as fertilizer at the

American rural farmers are being forced to sign contracts with large companies so that they can continue to support their families. The farmers who make the decision to raise livestock for brands like Tyson do not even own the animals they raise. An example of how large-scale companies are taking over American farms is the chicken industry. According to Tyson the most cost effective way to raise broiler chickens is in large dark warehouse like fixtures, called grower houses, easily packed with 20,000 chickens or more. Inside these grower houses animals are forced to live in their own feces, which has traces of

We have all wondered where, and how the poultry that is in our grocery stores had gotten there at some point in time, whether if we eat meat or not. When we find out, we are not too ecstatic with the results. It is unbelievable what they do just in order to get profit from the many variations of chicken the companies produce. They treat the birds as if they are not a living, breathing animal sitting right in front of them. They have no sympathy, for this wonderful creation, and all that it has to offer us. The companies only care about the money, and will do anything to get it. Big chicken industries such as Tyson and Perdue, force farmers to raise their chickens in certain ways, and by doing this, the chickens are raised in unhealthy conditions, which puts consumers’ health at risk.

Whole chickens are very successful in Canadian culture and that is why, with the surplus of chickens, Canada should export whole chickens to Australia. The first reason is for why Canada should export chickens is because Australians love meat with a passion. For example, in 2014, an Australian census was conducted based on the annual consumption of meat. Australians, per person, on average consumed 90.21 kg worth of meat. In comparison, the U.S. consumed 90.04 kg of meat per person, See graph “An appetite for meat.”

The city of Pittsburgh City Council recently voted to allow residents to raise five chickens, provided they have 2,000 square feet of yard space . The city has changed ordinances to stimulate the proliferation of the farm-to-table concept in recent years as an approach of improving the community’s physical and economic health. The initiative is part of the urban gardening concept the city has initiated to give its residents access to healthy food choices especially in communities defined as food deserts. Residents are also allowed to sell their produce at local farmer’s markets in food desert regions of the city. This unique approach used by the city of Pittsburgh should be adopted by other cities as a low cost solution to improving the overall health profile of their residents.

Over the past week, I was able to observe our Broiler Flock for the final time this semester. It has been nearly two weeks since I last observed our birds and over those two weeks they have undergone some significant changes. The birds have become very accustomed to us and whenever we spend time inside the houses they are very rarely frightened unless provoked. Over the semester we have tested the effects of lighting, stocking density, and bird sex on our flock and recorded the results. During the first few weeks of growth I assumed that the birds being raised in the bright pens would easily outpace the birds in the darker pens in terms of overall size and weight. Visually the size and weight between the two pens are minimal and barely noticeable.

I understand that your food products are extremely popular across the country, especially your chicken products. I am writing to you about your treatment of the farmers that are raising your chickens. What you do to these farmers is unacceptable and needs to stop immediately. Your actions have caused hundreds of chicken farmers across the country to struggle financially and emotionally. You need to change the harsh criteria you put on the farmers, the process by which you decide which farms get bonuses and pay cuts, and you need to increase the wages these farmers receive in the first place (Nelson and Kaptur).

Throughout the interview the farmer discusses how Tyson will require her to update her farms in order to increase production and require her to pay for it which cause her to go into to more debt. A statistic given by the documentary states that, “ a farmer pays around $500,000 to open 3 chicken farms, and the average chicken farmer makes around $18,000 per year.” This statistic given in the documentary goes to show how the companies like Tyson maximize profit by outsourcing the work where they do have to pay the expenses of operating the farms. Along with the endless debt that is piled up there are countless side effects that come from growing the chickens and operating a chicken farm. Side effects like diseases, becoming immune to antibiotics, and the filth that surrounds the operation of a chicken farm. The debt that farmers accumulate gets to such a large number that there is no way out of the business and must deal with being connected to their company. With all the upgrades that are demanded by big poultry companies like Tyson or Perdue, and, “between 2004 and 2006 chicken farmers spent over $650 million on upgrades to their chicken farms, an average of $38,000 per farm.” This debt that is racked up is taking out by loans that farmers must pay back to the banks with no assistance from the big poultry companies. Though the

Now that the birds are approaching seven weeks of age, revisiting your hypothesis and comparing the differences is key if we want to continue our birds on the right path. In my first report I hypothesized that lighting would have the greatest effect on the growth and wellbeing of our birds. With the data that we have compiled so far, it is safe to say that birds being reared in the brighter environment are out pacing birds being raised in the darker pens in terms of total body mass gained. This being said, three of the four deaths that we have had in our flock so far were being reared in a bright environment which almost certainly contributed to their outcome. Another variable in my first Broiler Report dealt with the stocking density of each

In the poultry business, it’s all about timely delivery, quality, and ensuring good returns for all stakeholders on a consistent basis. And fame comes only to the rarest of rare. Two brothers from Tamil Nadu – Bangaruswami Soundararajan and Bangaruswami Sundararajan – have perfected a unique all-inclusive poultry business that runs on a contract farming model involving small and marginal farmers. Kick-started in 1978, their brainchild, Suguna Foods Ltd (formerly Suguna Poultry Farm Ltd), has been instrumental in changing the lives of thousands of small-time poultry farmers by giving them sufficient returns. The brothers, who are XIth and XIIth grade pass-outs, have turned Suguna Foods into a `5,000 crore business with presence across India.

efficient supply chain. There are two main factors that go towards deciding the actual point of

Poultry plays very important role for mankind through food supply, income and employment generation, providing raw materials to some industries, facilitating research works etc. Family poultry makes up to 80 percent of poultry stocks in low-income food-deficit countries (Pym et al., 2006) where owners raise poultry in small numbers ranging from single birds up to a few hundred.

Chicken industry is one of the popular businesses in the Philippines .The demand of the chicken is increasing because of benefits it can give to the people. Many entrepreneurs is venturing to this business because it is worth it to invest into this kind of business. REB Chicken Dealer is distributor of whole dressed chicken in the area of lower part of batangas. It was established last January 2013 and owned by Ms. Edelsa Ignacio- Corcolon. In every business it has its own problem. The main problem of REB Chicken Dealer is lack of sales during some times of the year which means they do not have enough sales in a certain season. Some problem also affects them are short of supply, the chicken disease or virus, and the inclement