In the late 1950s and early 1960s my uncle raised broilers. He had no automated feeders or waterers. He has been gone for quite a number of years but my cousin still lives on the farm. She converted the two broiler houses into equipment storage barns BUT because my uncle never threw anything...
I have been raising chickens off and on most of my life and I am 62 now.. I grew up on a small farm and we usually kept between 20 to 30 chickens pretty much all the time. Mostly Rhode Island Reds and white leghorns with a few bantams running around free ranging the barn area. I worked on an egg...