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is a manure belt.The houses are being cleaned in 3 cycles first 113 of the houses are <br /> being cleaned out everyday.The manure belts run into the belt conveyor in the back of <br /> the chicken houses and then brought into the tractor container and brought <br /> immediately into the composting house.All the debris is being completely scraped to <br /> minimize the flies. We produce approximately 93.6 c.yd.a day.Any feed that is being <br /> delivery to us is being carried in a 24 tons feed truck from the milling companies.Then <br /> the feed is stored into feed tanks that are located in front of the chicken houses.Type of <br /> feed being used is made of mostly corn and other ingredients. <br /> Compost Facility: This is a 60,000 square foot enclosed building with a concrete <br /> foundation and floor. This building houses to compost machine and 4 rows/pits of <br /> compost. Approximately 36 cubic yards of manure and wood shavings or carbon are <br /> dumped into the east side of this facility daily. It will take approximately 28 to 30 days <br /> to complete a load of compost. Approximately 25 cubic yards of compost will be <br /> completed per pit per day. The composting house will have the capability to process 21 <br /> cubic yards of chicken manure per pit per day and there are currently 4 pits. <br /> Everyday the machine moves the compost 7 feet. Completed compost will be held on a <br /> concrete slab until the laboratory analysis is run and it is sold. Currently S.K.S. is <br /> selling the completed compost to"All Safe Industrial P. O. Box 876,Victor,CA 95253" <br /> as it is finished and in the future plan to bag the compost to sale. <br /> Waste Storage Ponds: There are several storage ponds on-site. There are small storage <br /> ponds between each of the house for collection of rain runoff. There is a storage pond <br /> west of the processing plant for wash water and rain runoff from the processing plant. <br /> Since the Houses that utilized this pond are no longer in use,it is not needed. <br /> Residences: There are 7 residences and / or employee houses on-site. They provide <br /> fresh water to the residences, poultry houses,and processing plant. The wells are <br /> Wi3thin the poultry operation and pipelines transport water around the operation and <br /> to the various residences. <br /> Dirt Roads: The dirt roads have a speed limit of 10 miles per hour to reduce dust during <br /> the summer months. <br /> Permanent Fencing: There is permanent perimeter fence of barb wire and hog fencing <br /> around the entire property. There are also various cross fences to provide pastures for <br /> the feeder steers. <br /> 4 <br />