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Ever wondered how chickens are fed and watered inside larger commercial farms? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This is how it’s done! This is in a classroom setting at Auburn University National Poultry Technology Center (@auburnag ) so the “feed” is little green plastic pellets that just simulate what it would be like in the real world. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Usually commercial broiler chickens start out eating feed crumbles from day 1-12 and the feed changes and get bigger as they grow. There are around 30,000 birds in a buildi

The reproductive cycle of chickens is so interesting. As a commercial regenerative farm that sells eggs, it’s important to us to make sure our chickens are productive members of our farm. To help ensure this, every few years we cycle our chickens out with younger chickens. Depending on the age, we’ll either sell the hens we are retiring to backyard or hobby farmers or process them out for soup and stew hens. Chickens begin laying eggs around 18 weeks of age. They hit their peak egg laying around