The Chicken Business

Forget the planet of the apes. This is the planet of the chickens.

The Legacy of Human Civilisation Will Be Written in Chicken Bones

North Americans apparently like chickens with big breasts and not legs. Don’t mean to seem rude about this but it’s just a fact.

Call me a leg man. Okay sorry that is a tacky joke. Sorry I actually find beauty in many different shapes. But I am told Latin American consumers find chicken thighs more tasty. I personally think they have more flavour - chicken breast meat seems pretty bland to me.

I dunnoe about you but nothing to me sounds more attractive than a big juicy chicken breast with a good side of anti-biotics - delish!!! Yum yum yum!

These genetically modified chickens are not terribly healthy - their legs are too small to support their weight and that creates a lot of production issues. A lot of these chickens die during their short lives.

You have to be very careful with hygiene and temperature is very important.

Sounds a bit like the How do you make a Pink Daiquiri? joke. I think the real problem might be the chickens being grown.

But eh - you have to start somewhere. Once you Shine a Light on temperature and humidity you can then start to do A/B testing and try different breeds of chicken and start to see different outcomes.

Remember that motorola flip phone you loved 15 years ago. Like to use it today? Ummmm.

Maybe not.

No if you are smart you can look globally at what is available and build a new system which will be leagues ahead of what you have today. But you can still leverage the wisdom and knowledge you had of the old system. With IguanaX we built a new product. But we would often go back and look at Iguana 6 and realize it did some things very well - ideas which needed to be re-incorporated into IguanaX.

Shine a Light , find the bottleneck, resolve it. Rinse-repeat. Keep moving.

See Chat GPT with Bing - SEO and Google are going to take a hit .

I found Ubibot a nice Chinese company with a wide range of nicely priced products that is easy to communicate with.

So I bought a refurbished Starlink kit for $250.00. Here’s Yellowfin tired after trying out the Starlink kit which allows him to get very decent internet speed anywhere on the globe. Did you know there are now more starlink satellites in orbit than any other satellite?

https://www.starlink.com/

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Yellowfin was very tired after setting up Starlink

Okay I admit - Yellowfin didn’t set it up, but it was very easy - just use the Starlink app and away you go - easier to setup than my Bell internet not as fast as fibre but still a good option for remote rural areas of Latin American countries.

For packing your starlink power it on and find the setting to stow it for travel. It has motors that you need to be careful of.

Done for you is faster than building things from first principles at least initially. Chicken farms need time to learn new technology and new solutions.

Don’t be afraid. Remember good leaders show Vulnerability. It’s okay to make mistakes. What’s not okay is staying still. History is full of squashed squirrels who couldn’t make a decision in the face of traffic.

This allows us to move faster. Shine a Light. Find the biggest bottleneck, solve that, rinse repeat. Keep moving fast - make decisions quickly.

Did you know that some more traditional roofing products like thatch are better for temperature regulation than corrugated iron?

Interesting but first lets Shine a Light on temperature. Remember with bottlenecks mean we can relax. Find the biggest bottleneck, solve that, rinse repeat. Keep moving fast. Keep experimenting, Keep learning. Make mistakes but recover quickly. It’s all good.

You have to practice the art of What is a good conversation?UNDEFINED and be open in a fast changing world. That means making it easy to communicate not just within but also communicate outside of your own organization.

You need to be open to considering the use of ‘competitors’ like IFTTT - If this then that is a ‘competitor’ for us in the same way that Dunkin’s donuts is a competitor with Nespresso.

Do yourself a favor - try out Spike - what email should be. It’s going to make it much easier to communicate internationally and find innovative chinese companies, find people in Europe who are breeding chickens with big legs. Enable you to talk their language and collaborate, innovate.

It’s possible to create kinder companies, that are more profitable, that treat their staff and animals better when you are open to communicate.