Friday the 13th bit us pretty big

For those that don't already know, we're a commercial poultry (chicken) farm. Our houses are only 4 years old and we have computers that handle ventilation and cooling. Well, as with computers, one of ours had some kind of problem this morning. We also have back up thermostats that handle those things when there are problems with the computers. We have spent the last 3 days selling birds and there was a little over half a house left. Usually when birds are being caught we turn the back ups off just so, if it gets cold enough, the back up won't turn the heat on. Well...the catch schedule changed and some dumba$$ (me) forgot to turn the back ups on. For some unknown reason about 2am the ventilation fans shut off. About 9am we found a little over 21,000 dead chickens. Wound up composting them in our litter shed. The company we grow for was VERY understanding. I asked the broiler manager about our contract and he said it's safe. He said we'll be hit hard enough with the income loss and there's no reason to compound it. We also have some of the greatest neighbors and family that we could ask for. I'm expecting the loss to be in the $6500 to $7500 range. Just sucks

Man that sucks.

Hope this does not become a repeat!

Really sorry about your loss. I know i have learned too often with the end result being a phone call to the renderer. Good that you had neighbors to help with that cleanup

Sorry to hear of that,, Uncle lost a farrowing house once with 20 sows and probably 200 piglets to a fire; had to get them out quick as we could - some were half baked

Well.... The company that makes our controller had a look at everything in the controller history at the time the fans shut off and can't find any problems. Their suggestion is to replace the CPU because that covers the most bases in one step. This to the tune of over $1,000.

I'm going to see if I can get our integrator to push a little and see if we can get a better answer as to what happened because most of their farms have these controllers. Doubt it'll go anywhere but we'll see I guess

Sad to hear that that happened.

Meh, I suppose that's all the good will one's likely to get these days anyhow. Doesn't make it any easier but you're in our thoughts & prayers over here.