Today we had a meeting with Oscar at the abattoir. I would be hard-pressed to describe the progress we made, but I think Tinashe and Oscar worked some things out with transportation and tracking of chickens. We're getting closer and closer to figuring this all out. Then (hopefully), we'll have a smooth ride as our farmers' chickens go directly and smoothly into the abattoir, where we are able to easily track them and quickly determine the weights so payments can be made.
Our abattoir situation is pretty unique, in my opinion. We deliver the live chickens and they're processed, frozen, and eventually sold. But the abattoir never owns the chickens. I thought all abattoirs bought their animals live from the farmers, processed them, and sold them. But our abattoir just charges a processing fee. So I'm really not sure whether the farmers or the marketing company own the chickens while they're in the abattoir. Tinashe seems to think this is the only way abattoirs work, so maybe I'm just out of my depth here.
Have a great weekend,
-Ben
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