A series of publicly announced cage-free capacity projects across several states. The releases show how housing additions, conversions and pullet capacity form separate workstreams in an egg-production transition.
Cage-free layers and pulletsMultiple sites · 2.2 million additional hens announced in 2024Company-announced capital program
Documented project facts
Figures below reproduce the cited public record. They are not HatchMatch estimates.
2024 capital plan
US$40 million
Five new houses
Approximately 1.0 million cage-free hens
Dexter conversion
Approximately 1.2 million free-range hens
Guthrie project
US$40.1 million; about 1.5 million hens and 300,000 pullets
Okeechobee project
US$23 million; about 400,000 hens and 210,000 pullets
What a buyer can take from this record
HatchMatch procurement observations, separate from the source’s project facts.
Treat new houses, conversions and pullet rearing as distinct packages with one flock-transition schedule.
Define the welfare or retailer standard before requesting aviary, nest, egg-belt and manure-system offers.
Include production continuity and depopulation windows in conversion tenders.
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