Contract growers are persons engaged by Chickmont Foods Ltd. to grow Live Broilers ready for processing. Typically these persons have chicken farms ranging in capacity from as low as 5,000 birds to around 25,000 birds, usually employing between 2 to 5 persons per farm. Chickmont currently has over 30 active contract growers, and they account for the majority of the live broilers slaughtered at our processing plant at Balls Plantation.

A baby chick takes between 38 to 42 days to grow to slaughtering maturity depending on the live weight required in the plant. It requires one (1) square foot of area per chick of a chicken pen to grow the bird correctly. Therefore a 5,000 square foot barn would easily house 5,000 baby chicks to maturity. The chicks are first fed three (3) weeks of Starter feed and the remaining weeks (up to three (3) weeks more) they consume Finisher feed. A bird usually consumes approximately 4.5 kg of feed up until its processing occurs. 

Chickmont Foods prides itself in producing a Drug Free bird for your table.
Under no circumstances are hormones administered to chicks by Any of Our Growers. We constantly monitor this by way of site visits by Chickmont representatives and the testing of birds at slaughter time. To this effect any Contract Grower found with Drug Residues or Hormone Residues in their birds at the time of slaughtering will have their Contract immediately cancelled, and the birds condemned by the Ministry of Health

Here are some of Our Contract Growers and take a look at one of Tunnel Ventilated Barns.

Contract Growers

 
Tunnel Ventilated Barn at Z R S Farms

These fans give the pen its tunnel ventilation.
This gives you an idea of the length of the barn.		This is the inside of the pen at 4.00 pm with blinds up.
This is the middle to end of inside of pen.		This is the Pinnacle computer, modem and other components used to monitor the condition of the pen at all times.