Chicken Ready: Nicolás Segovia Worked in Old Poultry Farms, But Now He's in Charge of Taking Care of Chickens Inside

The last time he had worked in a poultry establishment, Nicolás Segovia remembers carrying food in buckets, closing tents with curtains, and taking care of, at most, 5,000 chickens simultaneously. But that was 15 years ago, and it is worlds apart from the productive and technological level that exists today in the new poultry farms that are emerging, where up to 45,000 chickens can be raised per shed, and almost 300,000 in a single batch. That is why he cannot help but be surprised during his first weeks of work as manager of the Las Pepas 4 poultry farm, which is under construction and where Nicolás has been responsible from the beginning, to the point that when Bichos de Campo visited the site - in the middle of a rural area of Entre Ríos - there were only a few days left before the chickens from the first batch would leave. That is, the group of birds that inaugurated the place. As they still need to test all the infrastructure, they started at half capacity with a number of ...