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Poultry Houses <br /> There are several different types of poultry houses operating on-site for the layers and <br /> brooders(Figure 4). Each type of house is designed to function differently and will be <br /> described below. At the present time the facility operates year round with approximately <br /> 700,000 birds. <br /> Honen 7 & 8 are approximately 6 years old. They are the two environmental houses and <br /> are 40,915 square feet. Each house holds approximately 110,000 hens and produce 14.80 <br /> cubic yards of manure a day. These houses are air tight and all mechanical. There are <br /> conveyer belts under every row of cages. The manure is cleaned out daily. It is moved to <br /> the back of the building on conveyer belts and dumped directly into a truck. It is then <br /> transported to the composting house for processing. <br /> Honen 9 and 10 are 54,600 square feet. When these Honens are completed and stocked <br /> with hens,they will follow the same procedure as Honens 7 and 8 for the handling of <br /> poultry manure. They will house 150,000 hens and will produce 20.15 cubic yards of <br /> manure per day. <br /> The bunker is a concrete building that sits over by the large manure pond. This building <br /> is 48,670 square feet and will be converted to storage or compost in the future. <br /> The brooder house is strictly for baby chicks. These will be the replacement hens. There <br /> are approximately 150,000 chicks in this house. The chicks are housed here for <br /> approximately 17 weeks and they produce approximately 8.93 cubic yards of manure for <br /> the 17 weeks that they are in the brooding house. <br /> Egg Processing Plant <br /> The processing plant is 54,522 square feet and approximately 36 years old. The plant <br /> consists of a large building with designated areas for cooling the eggs, storing the eggs, <br /> processing the eggs, and storage for supplies that are needed for the operation. There is a <br /> USDA inspector on-site every day while the processing plant is running. This inspector is <br /> responsible for daily inspections of the facility. They make sure the facility is clean and <br /> void of odors, flies, and rodents. There is a small trailer next to the processing plant <br /> utilized as an office. <br /> Compost Facility <br /> This is a 60,000 square foot enclosed building with concrete foundations and floors. This <br /> building houses a compost machine and rows of compost. There is room in this building <br /> or another machine. Approximately 32 cubic yards of manure and carbon will be dumped <br /> into the east side of this facility daily. It will take approximately 28 to 30 days to <br /> complete a load of compost We are estimating approximately 30 cubic yards of compost <br /> will be completed per day. The composting house will have the capability to process 37 <br /> cubic yards of chicken manure per pit per day and there are 2 pits. They are planning on <br /> 4 <br />