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kind building, but it is new open house held the other
enough and interesting week. At the open house,
enough so that it drew Hershcy explained some of
several hundred people to an the systems that went into
building. “The whole thing
cost about $3.25 for each
bird,” ho said. “We’ve got
the birds nine to a cage.
Negative pressure ven
tilation keeps the climate
always the same. We have
alarm systems rigged up to
let us know if the current
goes off or if the heat goes
haywire, or if the water
pressure drops. The alarms
go off in the chicken house,
and they’re also hooked up to
a neighbor’s telephone.”
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Feb. 8.1975
• * Checking the water meters is one way Norma Frey
keeps tabs on the 50,000 chickens in her care. If
problems show up here, Norma sees that they’re
taken care of.
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Stretching almost to a vanishing
point, Norma Frey’s 50,000 charges
produce as many as 40,000 eggs a
day. And Norma runs the operation
all by herself.
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