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RE: A Glimpse of Shearing on a New Zealand Sheep and Beef Farm.

Cool, I visited a farm when I was a kid. My school had an exchange with a school in France, and the family I stayed with were farmers. They had about 20 cows, some pigs, geese and ducks right near the house that they used themselves, but their main thing was a chicken farm. They had HUGE barns with thousands of chickens running around inside. I've never smelled anything quite so putrid as when they took me inside the barn to collect dead birds. Some of them will peck the weaker ones to death - made the term "pecking order" really have meaning lol

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Yip I hear ya - I have bred chickens myself for 20 plus years and they sure are awful mean. Even the baby chick kill each other very quickly. The smell is something you don't forget in a hurry especially in the heat.