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This is the driveway entrance to our hatchery |
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Plaque on the front of our hatchery |
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A display of many trophies Townline has won from the 1930's - 1950's for superior poultry |
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This is the front side of our hatchery building |
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Henry Geerlings house that he was born in |
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One of our breeder coops that was built in the 1950's |
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Two of our newer coops that each hold 1,600 hens |
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Four more of our breeder coops |
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Our converted barn for storage that was used for black angus cattle in the1990's. |
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Photo of the back side of our hatchery |
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Our back up generator in case of power interruption |
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Newly started bantam chicks that are going to be used for a breeder flock. |
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Week old isabrown breeder chick,notice the hens are white and the roosters are red, this reverses the next generation |
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Don Geerlings, assisted by Michigan State veterinarian, taking blood samples from our breeder flocks to insure disease prevention |
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Full grown isabrown breeder flock. |
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Isabrown chickens that are 18 weeks old |
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Rouen ducks that we used for hatching eggs |
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Flock of pekin breeder flock |
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Our corn crop growing in July |
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This is our grain set to store and dry our corn crop |
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Corn coming out of our bin to be transported to our feed mill. |
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Feed truck filling up our feed bins, we use 20 tons of feed a week for our chickens |
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One of three of our farmall M tractors that we use for light duty work. |
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Our new tractor that we use for plowing and other heavy duty work. |
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We hand gather 15,000 eggs a day |
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Then we hand tray the eggs into setting trays |
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On of our 33 robbins incubators |
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Dick Geerlings candling eggs for days before they hatch. |
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John Geerlings flipping the eggs from setter trays to hatching trays |
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A view of our hatchery room with natureform incubators |
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Isabrown chicks newly hatched being counted and sorted, females are red and males are white. |
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Gloria and Marcia Geerlings wing sexing chicks |
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Baby chicks ready to be packed into orders and shipped VIA post office, or our delivery Vans |
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Aerial Photo of the Townline Hatchery year 1975 |
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Henry Geerlings sitting in front helping his dad Jacob in the hatchery in 1932 |
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Aerial Photo of Townline Hatchery year 2004 |
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Blood testing in the 1940's |
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Henry Geerlings Showing off prized Leghorn eggs |
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