Owlkill Farm Uses Chickens For Modern Packaged Goods
In White Creek New York Owlkill Farm shifted from egg production to packaging and distributing eggs yogurt cottage cheese orange juice and other products from Poughkeepsie to Canada and to Vermont and Massachusetts. The plant runs two shifts 19 hours daily packing 30 000 dozen eggs and operates 20 refrigerated trucks statewide. Chickens in two coops are leased to Avian Services with 55 000 birds at full capacity kept for about 14 months before resale. The operation emphasizes automation and cost management as the core of its expanded product line.