How Does a Chicken Farmer Spend a Workday?
Caring for Chickens A chicken farmer needs to clean and sanitize cages each day to reduce the risk of disease spreading among the chickens. Soiled bedding material is replaced with fresh bedding material in areas where young chickens are kept. Laying hen cages are sprayed to remove fecal matter and force it down special floor drains. This helps prevent fecal matter from collecting on eggs before they are collected. The chicken farmer ensures that all chickens, including hatchlings and young chicks, have fresh food and water each morning. Even those utilizing automatic waters and feeders need to make sure they are functioning properly each day and any fecal matter is cleaned out of feed or water basins. Chicken feces is a potential source of salmonella so great care is taken to keep hands, floors and cages disinfected. Collecting and Sorting Eggs shells are porous so it is important for a chicken farmer to collect eggs at least once a day, from laying hens, but sometimes they are collec
