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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Costco has spent $1 BILLION building enormous Nebraska poultry farm and slaughterhouse to keep up with demand for its famed $4.99 rotisserie chicken - with plant processing 2 million birds a week
2023-06-10
Wonder if they have AI autopluckers?
They are good chickens, larger, tastier, and cheaper than the roasted chickens sold by my local grocery store.
[Daily Mail, where America gts its news]
  • Costco has spent an estimated $1 billion on a state-of-the-art chicken processing plant in Fremont, Nebraska, to keep their $4.99 rotisserie stocks supplied

  • The plant processes two million chickens a week, coming from its own network of chicken farmers: it is the only retailer to have such an operation

  • The 500 chicken houses on the site each contain 42,000 chickens, built at a cost of $625,000
Posted by:Skidmark

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Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-06-10 19:57  

#11  but the fryers were so nasty.

Living descendants of the Velociraptor. I'd be careful around the little sumbitches.
Posted by: SteveS   2023-06-10 19:36  

#10  Enormous poultry farm? I don't know if Bill and Klaus and George are going to like that.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-06-10 18:10  

#9  All whites but the fryers were so nasty.

Posted by: Beavis   2023-06-10 17:03  

#8  As I recall from my youth, at about 2 years many become fryers.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-06-10 17:01  

#7  /\ Brown layers or white Magpie?
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-06-10 17:00  

#6  ^My grandparents had 2 houses, one fryers one layers

I hated those damn fryers
Posted by: Beavis   2023-06-10 16:59  

#5  *Wow* When I was a kid we had 800 egg laying chickens and that was a lot of manure to move daily ...and it will burn up most vegetation because of the concentrated nutrients.
Posted by: magpie   2023-06-10 16:52  

#4  500 chicken houses is more chicken turds than a White House press conference.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-06-10 13:36  

#3  Wonder who constitutes its workforce?

Take what you can get. At least the farm is not in China.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-06-10 12:29  

#2  And don't get me started on the KFC Poultry Penal Colonies...
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-06-10 09:02  

#1  Wonder who constitutes its workforce?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-06-10 08:24  

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