GONZALES, Calif. — Metzer Farms’ John Metzer, Marc Metzer and live production manager David Dunlap recently sponsored a groundbreaking ceremony for their $6 million state-of-the-art waterfowl hatchery in Memphis, Tenn. This new hatchery will be a 21,000 square foot facility, the farm’s second and largest hatchery and will allow them to hatch more than 120,000 ducklings a week.
Once construction is complete, the hatchery will allow for faster and safer delivery of day-old birds nationally in collaboration with the U.S. Postal Service and FedEx, the company notes. Orders ranging from 2 to 5. . .