re: The United States consumes about 23 million chickens a day.

It's those 20 million Democrats Biden escorted into the country, they LOOOOOVE chicken.

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If you drive up I-59 around Laurel, MS, you will see all the trucks pulling the trailers loaded with chickens going to the Sanderson Farms processing plant. I've always been curious as to how many they can load onto each trailer.

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All of them. I don't think there is any limit from what I have seen when they were catching them and loading them. If it looks like there ain't room for one more they will put that many more on a truck if there are that many more needing to go on the truck. It ain't for the feint of heart....

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If you drive up I-59 around Laurel, MS, you will see all the trucks pulling the trailers loaded with chickens going to the Sanderson Farms processing plant. I've always been curious as to how many they can load onto each trailer.

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and US49

I was driving through Hattiesburg last month and twice the trucks pulled up by me at a light and the birds were 5 feet away, looking at me with accusing eyes, like they knew.

It really was depressing for a bit, just going for a ride with a few hundred buddies and you will all be dead in an hour or two. nothing but existence, then death

at least cows get to roam around in the green grass.

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Saddest part of that is that only about 5% of US chicken farmers are independent now...all the rest are corporate owned or contracted to corporations. Doubt it is very lucrative for the individual any more.

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It was always a hard way to make money even when they corporations weren't actively destroying the growers. It wasn't labor intensive but it pretty much required one of 2 people authorized to be in the chicken house to be present just about 24-7.....even doctor appointments and that sort of thing had to be coordinated. I know, or knew a BUNCH of people who went into it back in the middle 90s to early 2000s and they made some money but they were home bodies anyway. I did know a couple of people who did it and also ran businesses other than farming who were away from the place during the day but everyone I knew back in the day who did it were farmers anyway so leaving the place wasn't really an issue for them.

My wife and nearly went into the layer farm business with Cagle in 1998- We had the farm in chicken country in Georgia and at that time Cagle was actually paying farmers pretty damn well. I wired a BUNCH of different type chicken houses for them during that period...there was a little money in building them but the layer farm was fully automated and required a bunch of machinery to collect eggs and we were well versed in building and maintaining them. We'd have been about $2 million in debt with a potential payback period of about 4 years. We eventually decided we did not want to be tied down to the farm or any single company and certainly did not want to be basically employs while running a sizeable business. The people in that area at that time pretty much managed to pay back their debt and make some money in the business BUT about 6 years after this the company had new designs for houses that could not be retro-fitted so the cycle started all over for them and they did not payback in many cases before the company had their farm and another family on the hook. It became BRUTAL. I am glad we changed out mind. My wife actually changed our mind....I was all in on it. We had the line of credit outside Cagle that would have kept us somewhat independent but being tied down to their schedule wasn't something she was willing to do and she was right. I have no idea if growers are making any money today but I would bet they make it for a short period after start-up cost payback and then the chicken company changes something that requires them to start all over again if they want to stay in the business. Its hard to decide not to for most.....an empty chicken house is just about useless and in chicken country can seriously drive down property values....its a damned hard industry.

23 million a day. Damn. Chickens need a better PR firm.

It is always pretty amazing to me how chicken is on the menu or the table in every nation on earth. I don't think there is any place or any people anywhere that don't eat chicken.

No damn wonder civilization starts breaking down in 72 hours.....69 million chickens every 3 days or folks start getting hungry is......

Poor babies.

I cooked 5 chickens worth of breasts last night alone.

Popeye's Fried Chicken is my favorite way to do chicken. Popeye's Chicken Sandwich is the best.

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