Below are the pictures of my visit to Dogwood Hill Farm. It is Bryce and Kathleen Prevette's Poultry Farm located in Statesville, NC. It was pretty cool to be able to get a behind the scenes look at how eggs start at a poultry farm and go through a thorough process of sorting and labeling to finally reach the distribution centers.
This is Bryce Prevette, co-owner of the Poultry Farm. Hear he is showing us all the data that they must take down about the fertility of the hens.
UP CLOSE and PERSONAL
He clearly didn't want his picture taken.
The Prevette's receive the hens at around 22 weeks old, and then they begin laying eggs at around 24 weeks. It takes around 21 days for the eggs to hatch.
This is the contraption that collects the eggs laid by the hens.
Isn't this an insane sight to see! There are around 9,000 hens and 1,000 roosters in this chicken house.
They collect the eggs around 4 times a day and each hen lays around an egg a day.
Kathleen Prevette, co-owner of the Poultry Farm, teaches us about the process behind the sorting and numbering of eggs.
Here, they put the date on the egg and number each one so that the company they send the eggs to know which farm they come from.
That's a lot of eggs!
Mr. Prevette and his son sharing a laugh.
The inside of the egg. The small white dot in the middle (it's a little difficult to see), is the beginnings of a future baby chicken.
Beautiful view of the Blue Ridge Mountains at the Privette Farm.
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