The feed hopper supplies feed to the feeder pans automatically. Clean drinking water is supplied by the nipple drinkers. The incubation time for the baby chicks is 21 days. In the field, a snapping turtle snapped at onlookers close to the UMES Broiler Teaching House. There are 18-500 bird independent chambers in the Facility.
Equipment used in the chambers reflects that used in the industry.
The chambers are windowless and have equipment to simulate field condition. Outside this facility was a poultry mortality composter. This will be green compost. If cured compost is desired it may take 8-12 months depending on how many times the compost mix is turned. When we were finished, we went to a restaurant close by Lew Carr's house named The Hebron Family Restaurant for lunch.