The first week was a lot of fun, but also a lot of work. I started off by learning all about the farm and animals and how it all works. A big part of this week was getting the fence posts put in place, so that the amish could pound them in to make what now is a beautiful new permanent fence. Its cool continuing to work on the farm, because early this week there were no animals where the fence used to be because they would just run, but now there are lambs grazing back there.
A main part of the farm and my job is dealing with the chickens. In all I am working with around 3000 chickens, 800 layer chickens and over 2200 broilers. The layer chickens are the ones that make the eggs to eat, and the broilers are the ones you eat. After about one week I collected over 15 5 gallon buckets full of eggs, and I personally killed around 100 chickens, but in all this week the farm processed about 400-500 chickens. Even after killing chickens I am still eating chicken, which is a good sign for me.
It has taken a lot of work this week, but this week was fun and I am very excited to keep on working on the farm.
Noah, it's awesome that you are able to do a variety of work, it must keep things exciting. It's great you're able to make an educated decision about eating chicken after seeing the whole process. I think it would be beneficial for everyone to see what's behind their food.
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