UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Participation in 4-H and a part-time job in the poultry industry hatched a promising future for Lindsey Bright, leading her to Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and the Penn State Poultry Education and Research Center.
After graduating from Penn State in May, Bright, of Quakertown, Pennsylvania, will begin her career as a service technician with Dutchland Farms, a wholesale egg-marketing, pullet-growing and flock-service operation in Elizabethtown.
“I am very excited for this next step in my career, and I am thankful for the preparation and experiences that Penn State and the college's poultry center have offered me,” she said.
Before coming to Penn State, Bright got her first taste of the poultry industry through a high school job at Quakertown’s Moyer Chicks, where she learned about hatchery processes, including moving eggs into incubators, sexing and vaccinating chicks, and counting chicks before shipping them across the United States.