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Chicken Real | movie | 1970 | Official Trailer
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9/16/2024
One of Les Blank's industrial films, which follows a Holly Farms "broiler" chicken from factory incubation to the county | dG1fYWRJZDJjNFB2YlU
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Holly hatcheries produce 410,000 chicks every day of the year, except for those grown for
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Christmas and Thanksgiving when turkeys predominate.
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After the perfect chicks are selected, they will be delivered to grow-out farms where
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they'll be grown by farmers who closely adhere to specifications set by Holly Farms in details
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such as building construction, sanitation, and feed allotments.
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The first week of a chick's life is spent mostly huddling together beneath the brooders
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which provide a 95 degree temperature underneath.
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This temperature is gradually dropped until the desired 60 degrees is reached, which will
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be maintained for the remainder of the growing period.
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Harvest time at the grow-out farm comes 8 1⁄2 to 9 weeks after delivery of the chicks.
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Averaging 3 1⁄2 pounds, these broilers have been grown under the close supervision of
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a staff of the company's field service personnel and veterinarians.
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While this processing plant at Temperanceville, Virginia has a capacity of 12,000 chickens
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an hour, its largest plant in Wilkesboro, North Carolina produces twice as many, providing
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jobs for 1,200 employees.
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At various points on the processing line, the birds pass through flames, replacing grandma's
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tweezers in the removal of pin feathers.
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It took grandma a good hour to kill, pluck, and prepare a chicken for cooking.
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Here it takes an average of about a seventh of a second per bird.
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Automation is used where practical, such as for evisceration.
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Through all phases, inspection by government-employed USDA personnel as well as the company's own
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inspectors assures absolute wholesomeness for each of the more than two million birds
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that pass through the company's plants each week.
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Basted generously with a tasty, tangy sauce that anyone may prepare, the portable barbecue
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pit spreads the word that properly barbecued chicken is a treat that anyone can duplicate
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on his own grill.
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