chicken farm jan 2013

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sweet pea

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this is the chicken farm I don't know much history on it other than it closed and moved sites roughly ten years ago as documents would suggest that we found bundled in a room any way on with the pics visited with Mrdan as usual and shot_in_the_dark great bloke I might add:lol:

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oh the buckets!!
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plane seats??
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never seen anything like this
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egg weighing device

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not a fan of fans
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bullet holes I like bullet holes
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the outside
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think its broken
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someone needs to do the paper work
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its in the mist!!
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thank you for looking people and a massive thanks to shot_in_the_dark for the company and for the hazard lights at the cameras!! id have been banned by now! hope to meet again soon just to add mid way through our mooch we was disturbed by a dog walker (nice old chap) who asked us what we was doing after we told him and asked what he was doing walking round an abandoned chicken farm he told us he was hunting pheseants and rabbits with his dog after a ten minute convo he wished us luck and dissapeard off with his dog!!
 
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Looks good there, somewhere I've not been yet either.
S.I.T.D is a a great bloke to explore with (if you're not pushed for time) ;)
 
These places look so miserable. I have a friend who keeps chickens and they actually respond to their names, it's awfully sad to see the conditions all but a few live out their existence...

Still, lots of things left here, so it makes for an interesting report.

Thanks.
 
IT very probably WAS a chicken holocaust site - especially when they decided to shut it down. Now I'm retired, every year we take 10 ex battery hens from the local farm. It takes about a year to get them right again, and then they lay like crazy. Our oldest is now 18 and we still get an egg a day from her for most of the year.

Nice explore chaps. Hope you washed your hands!
 
there was evidence of it being a battery farm everywhere whitelaw it was a great day out and sitd is a nice fellow hope to do some more exploreing with him soon thanks for the positive comments
 
yea sitd said you couldent make it shame really me and mrdan have a few lined up soon
 
Nice relaxed little explore with sweet_pea (as usual) and our tour guide for the day shot_in_the_dark - was great to meet him and really appreciate the time he gave us, looking forward to more in the future. Would love to meet up with you as well Pen15..
As sweet said, we met a chatty old boy with his Parson Russell looking for pheasants, was more than happy to stand and chat with us, he explained he walks through here daily with his dog.
A nice relaxed explore, just a shame we can't work magic like shot_in_the_dark did when he posted his photos from this site a while back!

This was such a large site, with the number of buildings almost hitting double figures. Difficult to imagine what the living conditions were like for the chickens and probably better to try not to :/
We found some interesting bits and pieces, but I'll let the photos do the talking:

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shot_ in_the_dark closely followed by sweet_pea

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If I don't believe in him... Why would he believe in me?

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You can never have enough buckets

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...Or crates for that matter...

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Evidently they didn't have many visitors

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The Saint

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I don't know about you, but 6 looks just right for me :)

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Brings back memories of the time when I worked on a chicken farm. It was free range but there were still about 3 huge sheds similar to the one you've explored, holding 18,000 birds each. Even though they were free to come & go a lot of them just hung around inside where the food was! If it rained there would be a mad stampede to get back in which was funny to watch; I'm easily amused! The noise & smell when I went in at 8 in the morning to open up would take your breath away & make your ears ring. Imagine 18,000 chickens all squawking at once! I then had to collect several thousand eggs by lunchtime with the little buggers pecking your fingers & Radio 2 blasting from giant speakers down the aisles; totally mad! Thinking about it, I really have had some crap jobs!
I've got some photos I took inside the sheds if anyone's interested. I could post them on the end here if that's OK?
 

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