CERTIFICATIONPURSUANT TO

RULE13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934,

AS ADOPTEDPURSUANT TO

SECTION 302 OF THESARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 

 

I, J. Douglas Cagle, Chairman andChief Executive Officer of Cagle’s, Inc., certify that:

 

1.   I have reviewed thisreport on Form 10-Q of Cagle’s, Inc. (“company”); 

  

2.   Based on my knowledge,this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit tostate a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of thecircumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respectto the period covered by this report; 

  

3.   Based on my knowledge,the financial statements, and other financial information included in thisreport, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, resultsof operations and cash flows of the company as of, and for, the periodspresented in this report; 

  

4.   The company’s othercertifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintainingdisclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e)and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined inExchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the company and have:

 

  a)   Designed suchdisclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls andprocedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that materialinformation relating to the company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, ismade known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the periodin which this report is being prepared; 

  

  b)   Designed suchinternal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control overfinancial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonableassurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparationof financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generallyaccepted accounting principles; 

  

  c)   Evaluated theeffectiveness of the company’s disclosure controls and procedures and presentedin this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosurecontrols and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this reportbased on such evaluation; and 

  

  d)   Disclosed inthis report any change in the company’s internal control over financialreporting that occurred during the company’s most recent fiscal quarter (thecompany’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that hasmaterially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the company’sinternal control over financial reporting; and 

 

5.   The company’s othercertifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation ofinternal control over financial reporting, to the company’s auditors and theaudit committee of the company’s board of directors (or persons performing theequivalent functions): 

 

  a)   All significantdeficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internalcontrol over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affectthe company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financialinformation; and 

  

b)     Any fraud,whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have asignificant role in the company’s internal control over financialreporting.

 

Date: August 12, 2008 

 

By: /s/ J. Douglas Cagle 

J. Douglas Cagle 

Chief Executive Officer