CHICKMATE - Key Persons
The origin of the Chickmate® company stemmed from an idea by a progressive thinking, young farmer, Pat Awalt. The idea was conceived while he was at work in his own poultry houses in 1984, when he noticed a crack in the feed line and saw feed dropping onto the floor. He saw a necessity to develop a more efficient method of feeding baby chickens and invented a baby chick feed dispenser that "automatically" feeds the young birds.