So you want to be a chicken meat farmer

摘要

There are about 690 chicken meat farms around Australia - about the same number as beef cattle feedlots. But as Asa Walhquist finds out, that's as far as the similarities go. Last year the chicken processing company Ingham put out the call for peopleinterested in becoming chicken farmers. It was backed by a television program about the industry. Shane Reeves, farming manager for NSW at Ingham Enterprises, says that, as a result, he was inundated by people wanting to build chicken farms.