6 Influencers Toured A Hen Farm: Right here’s What They Discovered

[blockquote text=”Jenny Rhodes is a fourth generation farmer from Queen Anne’s County, Maryland who has devoted the last 20 years to raising two things: her boys and her chickens. With four poultry houses, she not only has grown a business that she is proud of, but she is able to raise over 500,000 chickens for meat, or what are called broilers, a year, feeding over 400,000 families dinner.

If you’ve ever enjoyed a rotisserie chicken, and I’m sure you have, it may have come from Jenny’s farm.

“Now when it comes to poultry, I have visited a turkey farm in California, but I have never been to a chicken farm. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and had some vague idea based on what is portrayed in the media, or documentaries. To be honest, it’s felt a lot like a mystery…

I was struck by how much room the chickens had, and gained an appreciation for the saying, “birds of a feather flock together,” because despite their ample real estate, the chickens loved cozying up to one another, in their little flocks. The chickens in this barn were 15-days-old, or in terms we could understand, adolescents. These teenagers had arrived the day they were hatched, and would spend their time in this cozy climate-controlled and ventilated barn, and have access to food and water at all time. Chicken raised for meat (also called “broiler chickens”) are never raised in cages, and I will admit that I assumed that perhaps there were some that were raised in cages simply because some food labels highlight “cage-free.“” show_quote_icon=”yes”]