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Is anyone on here supplying 2 sisters or Facendda with chicken? Does everything just tick along nicely?
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I have worked for both on company and contract growing farms as long your Farm is reasonably new or up to Standards you will keep getting birds and keep being payed . If you want to know what I really think of them PM me. But good luck you will need it.Is anyone on here supplying 2 sisters or Facendda with chicken? Does everything just tick along nicely?
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good old Grampion that is a name from the past I started on a contract farm for them in 2001Did Grampian, Vion, H2S, from 1996 too 2019.
good old Grampion that is a name from the past I started on a contract farm for them in 2001
I have worked for both on company and contract growing farms as long your Farm is reasonably new or up to Standards you will keep getting birds and keep being payed . If you want to know what I really think of them PM me. But good luck you will need it.
I am a bit supprised that there have been no replies bearing in mind all the talk about future American chicken imports into the UK. Is it a question of keep your head down?
Have dead bins provided and get washed out here,rarely load before 6amYou are correct about America. Canada is different. Often when poultry houses are depreciated packers will drop the price because they can and paying more for a new build because the debt keeps the production flowing. In the worst case governments incentivise expansion in certain areas (Wales) by offering grants which moves production and disadvantages existing producers.
Where as commercial buildings will pay a return without the owner grafting away with a power hose at regular intervals. That responsibility should stay with the packer as should all the other costs of operation.
Time for change
B&b pigs would work well if all costs were really covered. Mortality disposal, wash down, weighing, loading out of hours etc. It’s a long list. Farmers are seriously under valuing their time. It’s basically pay for a bit of Labour, buildings and other services for free.
You do not buy a Ferrari at the same price as a Ford.
I don't get why we need to fear being flooded with US chicken any more than we do Brazilian, Thai, or EU chickens. If they can get a fresh product on Morrisons shelves from Louisiana, or wherever, chepaer than we can from Sleaford, or wherever, then good luck to them. I bought a load of fresh breast fillets from Costco for about £6 per kg a week or two and wasn't thinking "ah, if only there was a source of slightly cheaper chicken that smelt faintly of bleach instead, I'd be all over that."