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Last updated on Wednesday, February 25, 2015
(LEWIS) - Farbest Farms expects to raise more than 1 million turkeys a year in brooding barns under construction northeast of Lewis.
The Terre Haute Tribune-Star reports the company is building six turkey brooding barns, made of concrete floors and concrete stem walls, and each barn will measure 60 feet wide and 500 feet long, which is 30,000 square feet.
Two other buildings will be erected on the site, including an office/shop building, measuring 42 feet by 68 feet, with shower facilities and a three-sided covered compost building, measuring 30 feet by 40 feet, with concrete stem walls.
Each of the six brooding barns will receive 28,200 day-old turkeys every eight weeks. They will be held for 38 days then moved to a contract farm to finish growing until 20 week when they will go to market.
Jay Houchin, live production manager for Farbest Farms says, the Vigo facility will grow 170,000 turkeys in the 38 days or 1.1 million a year.
Farbest Farms currently has other brooding barns in Dubois, Martin, Washington, Pike, Spencer and Knox counties and one in McLean County, Kentucky.
Vigo County was selected for the single purpose brooding barns for its geographic location to the Vincennes processing plant and to family farms, Houchin says
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