Recently I was reading the Hickman’s Family Farms Newsletter that included a story about their experience with the television show, Dirty Jobs. The Hickman’s have been raising chickens and selling eggs in Arizona for the last 65 years. The quote in the story that caught my attention was the following, “…they thought our farm was “too clean”; what a great thing for us to hear about where we house over 3 million hens AND a fertilizer plant!” There is no doubt that farmers and ranchers get dirty, as there is a lot of dirt and sweat involved in our professions. And for anyone raising livestock there is manure involved too. It’s fantastic, that the Hickman’s process the chicken manure into fertilizer, and I am sure that is a bit of a dirty job.
The “Egg Farm” episode will be re-airing again this week, May 7th, on the Discovery Channel. Check it out! If you can’t wait that long to watch the episode on TV, you can view it at the Hickman’s webpage.