Cartanza Chicken Farm

Our first field trip was to Georgie Cartanza’s farm which is one of Delaware’s organic chicken operations. On the trip Georgie told us some of the differences between organic and non organic poultry production. Some of the main differences is the organic feed that comes from Argentina and Turkey as well as the chicken houses layout. Organic chicken houses have windows installed along with wooden structures that chickens can climb on they also give chickens the ability to go outside into a fenced in area. She also explained some some of the technology that is used in the chicken houses that is used to regulate temperature, humidity, and feed and water  the chickens. Over all the the field trip was very informative and it was very interesting to see what its like to be a poultry producer.

 

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