Chicken tourism
Breeder hens on Morgan Farm in Oklahoma by Tim Morgan
Alex at Pruned proposes a tour of industrial-scale chicken farms in Maryland. According to the New York Times article that inspired him, the state produces 570 million of the birds a year. Seems their droppings wash out into the Chesapeake Bay, which is becoming increasingly polluted and losing its fisheries. The state has proposed some stricter regulations, which farmers think are a load of crap. They’ll make more work for the farmers and (I’m guessing) make raising chickens more expensive.
Highlights of the trip would include mountains of manure and 500-foot-long coops. I wonder if we could meet any farmers? Or take a cruise on the Bay?
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