Tens Of Thousands Of Chickens Killed In
Wright County Egg Farm Fire
WCCO-TV (Minneapolis, MN),
by
Kristen Mitchell
Original Article
Posted By: sunshinehorses,
6/5/2022 9:24:37 AM
Massive flames burned down a barn with tens of thousands of chickens in Wright County. The fire started late Saturday night at Forsman Farms in Howard Lake, causing major damage. The Trebesch family thought they would spend Saturday night around their bonfire, but just after 10 p.m. they noticed massive flames across the field at Forsman Farms. “It was unbelievable how quick it grew, it was insane,” Andy Trebesch said. “It was the whole sky, it was quite large.” CORRECTION*
*Source corrected to site style.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jinx 6/5/2022 9:37:46 AM (No. 1176489)
Another fire at a food producing company. A coincidence? I don't think so. The Biden administration is bound and determined to destroy our food supply.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/5/2022 9:40:34 AM (No. 1176494)
My first thought is that this is no accident.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/5/2022 9:54:55 AM (No. 1176508)
The attack on the food supply continues.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 6/5/2022 9:59:40 AM (No. 1176515)
Add these chickens to the tens and tens of thousands of commercial and backyard chickens already put down to contain the highly contagious avian influenza that, oddly enough, appeared in ALL FOUR North American flyways this year. Plus what, one of the biggest chicken processing plants in London Canada burned down towards the end of May. Gosh, what bad luck! I am relieved that Politifact has investigated and stated there is nothing to any conspiracy theories about artificially created food shortages. I can rest easy!
Sarc/off
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
slipstik 6/5/2022 10:21:49 AM (No. 1176541)
Another link in the chain of the destruction of our food supply. I wonder what that sock puppet at the top could tell us about this. Oh wait, "plausible deniability" kicks in.
Just another chapter in the ongoing saga of the destruction of our once great nation. Get used to it folks.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
volksford 6/5/2022 10:37:57 AM (No. 1176561)
There is a word for this obviously organized destruction...sabotage , and its damn peculiar we haven't seen any arrests.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/5/2022 10:45:57 AM (No. 1176578)
all these food producing companies burning down and was does the tree-stump-in-chief do?? Another weekend in Delaware - what a useless piece of excrement.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 6/5/2022 10:56:17 AM (No. 1176591)
I'll bet that stunk to high heaven.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 6/5/2022 10:58:54 AM (No. 1176594)
When I worked for three summers on a chicken farm for a farmer who eventually became a personal friend, the whole business of raising chickens was pretty much a huge scam by the big chicken slaughterhouses and the feed companies. My farmer friend was a retired mechanical engineer and understood finance, costs, the time value of money, etc very well, and he could JUST make a living. A HARD business.
The feed company and the chicken buyers would offer to finance anyone who had the land to build chicken houses and raise a flock of chickens for them "on contract". No money down, the company would send in a crew, build the houses, put in the feeders, waterers, lights, etc. The feed company would sell the feed on credit, due when the flock or eggs sold.
Then the new chicken farmer would break his back taking care of the chickens until they were either raised up to the age for slaughter, or until they started laying and then start gathering the eggs and storing them until the egg truck picked them up every couple of days, eggs on fixed price contract to the wholesaler, too.
At the end of a year of hard work, the new chicken farmer was deep in debt and was going to find out that the big chicken companies and the feed company who had loaned him all the money, and guaranteed what SEEMED like a nice price for either the chickens or the eggs.....had a lot sharper pencils in their accounting departments than he had on his kitchen table. Typically the farmer was earning very, very little or even losing money each year while working long, hard hours. And for the next flock...ask for a higher contract price and they will go and find a new sucker, and you are still in debt, struggling to pay the loans.
And sometimes....a tragic fire happened and the insurance company was stuck with the cost of those burned up chicken houses.
Just my experience in the chicken business about 50+ years ago.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Yepper 6/5/2022 10:59:07 AM (No. 1176595)
Whatever the cause, I'm bringing along a case of BBQ sauce. :)
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 6/5/2022 11:22:38 AM (No. 1176622)
Fried chicken for all. Besides, you want to see chicken farms? Go travel the eastern shore of Maryland and southern Delaware. There one will see huge chicken facilities everywhere that produce tens of thousands of chickens every 11 weeks. My uncle produced chicken for Purdue with two relatively small chicken houses. He had perhaps five thousand chickens at any one time in each house. Perdue would drop off the chicks with its feed. The feed and water were in troughs which looked like rain gutters and could be lowered and raised according to the size of the chickens. My uncle's job was to keep the chicken house ventilated with huge fans at each end of the building, and pick up and remove the dead chickens each day. At the end of 11 weeks, Perdue would come out, and collect the chickens. Some were so fat that they couldn't move. I called them the Oven Stuffers. Then after the chickens were removed, my uncle had a week to clean the chicken houses, and the whole process would start over again with Perdue delivering another group of chicks and feed.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Muguy 6/5/2022 11:23:04 AM (No. 1176623)
Enviromental terrorism?
So many food producing and processing factories being destroyed and having curious fires??
3 million eggs a day lost-- all to drive up the prince of food and fuel so the socialists can take over by creating a national emergency?? It's not so far fetched as it once seemed.
The Nobamaites are going for broke to ruin as many things as possible and make permanent damage. Those 'republicans' who may be elected in November do not take office until January of 2023.... we are a microcosm of Ukraine.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Harlowe 6/5/2022 11:51:11 AM (No. 1176657)
As informational, Janet Levy reported having heard “...the Director of Infrastructure Security at a reputable think tank summarizes the current situation vis a vis the food supply.” That a “report with recommendations is forthcoming within the next few weeks.”
https://radiopatriot.net/2022/06/03/a-message-from-janet-levy/
~~
Here are the key points:
1) There have been 30 major fires at food processing plants in the past 16 months.
2) 2,000 fires have taken place in settings with livestock and at agricultural facilities.
3) The agricultural sector has experienced a 607% increase in fires.
4) While China is stocking massive amounts of grain, the U.S. is not stocking food.
5) The manipulation of markets has included transportation stoppages like Union Pacific’s recent refusal to transport fertilizer and other agricultural products. (They are largely controlled by Black Rock and Vanguard).
6) Other infrastructure is being targeted that supports food production and distribution such as unguarded electric substructures.
7) Biological threats such as the Avian flu and genetic engineering or modification of food present a significant concern.
8) China is involved in the geo-tracking of our food production facilities which raises major questions about the potential sabotaging of our food supply.
~~
She asks, “Anyone with additional information on threats to our supply chain and food security (or useful contacts), please contact me by return email. ~~ Janet Levy, Los Angeles.”
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 6/5/2022 11:58:22 AM (No. 1176663)
The operation that I worked on had four chicken houses, 10,000 chickens in each house, 5,000 in each end with the feeder machinery in the middle of the house. About 75 ft wide and 300 ft long for each house.
So "tens of thousands of chickens" killed is a literal drop in a bucket of the chicken market.
When we had layers, with 10,000 birds we'd get maybe 9,000 to 9,500 eggs per day. The pickers would fill a 144 egg flat (about a foot square) and then put another empty flat (like the bottom half of an egg carton, but 12 x 12) on top and then put another 144 in that flat. Then take those to the nearest door, put them in a wire crate outside, and go and pick some more. I'd drive the truck and pick up these wire crates about 8 high flats, so 8 x 144 or 1152 eggs per basket. Yes, I did think about "all your eggs in one basket" even as a teenager and was VERY careful handling those baskets, and they are HEAVY.
So, in a morning, I was picking up about 8 of those wire baskets with around 9,000-9,500 eggs. Every single day. So in a week, that one house would put out 63-65,000 eggs. And we often had two houses in production, so on one small chicken farm we put out 125,000 eggs a week, or half a million eggs a month.
The numbers in the egg business are HUGE.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jar 6/5/2022 12:32:55 PM (No. 1176690)
Where is PETA on this?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/5/2022 12:35:17 PM (No. 1176692)
How else is Davos going to reduce the population of hungry proles? This is another in a string of food producers that have been destroyed.
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