Chicken Farmers of Canada
As part of my job here at Chicken Farmers of Canada, I often get to visit chicken farms in different areas of Canada and I get to talk to a lot of chicken farmers.Every time I do, I’m always impressed with the level of dedication they have and how they care for their birds. I also get to visit other parts of the industry as well, such as processing plants and hatcheries.
Periodically we get to film different parts of the industry for a whole variety of reasons; everything from new commercial footage to general video footage on the industry, which we also refer to as b-roll.
I was in British Columbia and Saskatchewan just last fall for filming and was again so impressed. I’ve never seen anything in a barn that made me feel uncomfortable. Chickens are raised in clean, well-ventilated barns. The barns are probably bigger than they were many years ago, but the standards are much stricter today. They are free to roam in the barn and they always have access to food and water. They are kept in an environment where they are safe from predators and it helps protect them against disease. On the whole, the chickens looked pretty content to me. You can see when you’re in the barn that the chickens have their own little groups and that there seems to be a “pecking order” to their groupings, as well.
The areas around the barn are clean too. Farmers have to make sure insects, rodents and other animals can’t get into the barn. The areas all around the barns and feed bins have to be clean too.
Farmers work really hard to deliver a safe, clean product to consumers. But that doesn’t make them heartless – they care about their animals a lot and they work to create surroundings that make the birds comfortable and safe.
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