# "Jugging" chickens **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 29, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugging-chickens/998289 "2024-02-29T17:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugging-chickens/998289/17 "2024-03-02T18:51:14Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > In huge commercial chicken houses all the manure falls through into a pit. Chicken manure is very high in nitrogen and ammonia and hydrogen sulfide builds up over time. It’s a thing for a workman to be working in the pit when the ventilation system fails. Deaths happen. The worst job I ever, ever did, bar none, none even close, even slopping out horse and cattle stalls in the muckiest of spring weather, was moving egg laying hens past their prime on the semis to be made into soup. > [@Were there any weird or stupid things that were fads specific to your school/area growing up?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-there-any-weird-or-stupid-things-that-were-fads-specific-to-your-school-area-growing-up/950330/25): > > The worst ag job I ever had was working at the egg ranch to move the “old” hens into the rolling cages and onto the semi so they could be turned into soup. The scene in Napoleon Dynamite undersells how disgusting that job was. Those of us on the lower level (two-level barn) were constantly rained upon by the shit of thousands of excited hens above us. Horrible job and I cannot stress how horrible. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugging-chickens/998289)._