Two poultry production complexes are being planned for construction in Kent County, located near Farmington, Del. The two operations, once completed, would contain as many as 30 chicken houses, each of which would hold 35,000 and 50,000 birds. The chickens would be processed by Mountaire Farms and Perdue, reports The News Journal.
Some neighbors were critical of the projects, which under Delaware’s “Right to farm” law, allows farmers to put as many chicken houses on a plot of agriculturally zoned land as they want. That law was originally designed to aid small farmers.