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and augured into a truck or trailer. The manure will then be transported to the on-site composting facility for processing. The bunker is a 48,670 square foot solid concrete building that sits over by the large manure storage pond. The bunker was utilized as storage but has since been cleaned out. The brooder house is strictly for baby chicks. These are the replacement hens. When in operation this house holds 150,000 baby chicks. The chicks are housed here for approximately 17 weeks and they produce on average approximately 5 cubic yards of manure per day. The chicks are a day or so old when they arrive at the site. This house is only in operation for 17 weeks prior to replacing the laying hens in the Honen's. EGG PROCESSING PLANT The processing plant is 54,522 square feet and approximately 36 years old. The plant consists of a large building with designated areas for processing the eggs, cooling the eggs, storing the eggs, and storage area for supplies needed for egg processing. There is a USDA inspector on-site every day while the processing plant is in operation. This inspector is responsible for daily inspections of the egg processing facility. They assure the facility is clean and void of odors, flies, and rodents; assuring proper temperatures in the coolers; and checking for proper labeling of product. There is a small trailer next to the processing plant utilized as an office. COMPOSTFAciLiT: This is a 60,000 square foot enclosed building with a concrete foundation and floor. Currently there is one compost machine, two rows/pits of compost, the wood shavings, and the finished compost in this facility. Approximately 32 cubic yards of manure and wood shavings or carbon are dumped into the east side of this facility daily. it takes approximately 28 to 30 days to complete a load of compost. Approximately 23 cubic yards of compost will be completed per pit per day. The composting house has the capability to process 10 tons of chicken manure per pit per day and there are currently 2 pits operating. The rows/pits of compost are within concrete stem -walls. Daily the compost machine moves down the pit, mixing and aerating the compost as it moves the row 7 feet. Completed compost is held on a concrete slab until the laboratory analysis is run and it can be picked up or sold. Currently S.K.S. is selling the completed compost to "Hyponex". They pick it up bulk as it is finished. S.K.S. is researching what is needed to bag and sell the compost themselves. STORAGE PONDS: There are several types of storage ponds on-site. There are rain water storage ponds, stock ponds, and waste water storage ponds. There are two small storage ponds between the Woody's for collection of rain run-off from roof tops and around the Woody's. There is a storage pond west of the processing plant for collection of wash water and rain run-