Chicken feed
In the olden days we used to keep chickens the way grandma did, only on a larger scale.
Laying your egg was your own private business you indulged in when and where you felt
like.
Taken by Zavek, 1957.
Archive No.31757
Which made the chicken farm rather labour intensive. Collecting the eggs and filling the
feeding troughs was done by hand, even if you had a trolley suspended on an overhead rail to
get around.
Haim Lupo
Taken by Zavek, 1957.
Archive No.31758
Today we have batteries, which sort of gives me the willies. Two big chickens
(or three smaller ones) to a cage,
with feed and eggs reaching their respective destinies on
conveyor belts illuminated by fluorescent light.
The strange yellow contraptions are a sort of egg ladder, lowering the eggs gently from the height of the top row to the conveyor belt.
The belt moves them to a nearby room
where they are checked, weighed and sorted by size
Here's eagle-eyed Moshe P.
and packaged by hand.
Noemi B. and Tzippora
We don't grow rich hawking eggs, but it pays a few of the bills.