The poultry industry is nothing new to incoming Alabama Poultry and Egg Association, or APEA, president Casey Jones of Hoover. As a third-generation industry employee, he’s been around the block a time or two.

Brenda Gantt's house is filled with fixtures found in the home of a typical Southern lady. There are antique dressers, knick-knacks, hand-made pottery and a dining room table that could seat a small village. A homey kitchen is filled with well-seasoned cast iron cookware used to prepare her now-famous chicken recipes.

Today’s four prize-worthy poultry recipes in this issue come courtesy of, not one, not two, but three award-winning food bloggers and cookbook authors who call Alabama home.

Most all modern poultry houses have at least 1,000 linear feet of moving cable, rope and sometimes steel rod connecting sidewall, or ceiling, vents together in a single house. There is also another 1,000 feet for feed and 2,000 feet for drinkers. Add another 160-200 feet for tunnel inlet curtains, or doors, and an estimated 500 feet for a house with round radiant brooders. With all this necessary cabling, rope or steel rod connecting all this equipment together, it is very difficult to keep the cable, rod and rope from coming into contact with PVC water and electrical conduits.

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