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THE COOGLER EGG FARM

In about 1947 Gene Coogler SR. moved to new caney from houston to a location that is now the sight of the east montgomery county courthouse. He built two chicken houses at that location. In about 1956,before US59 came through he dismantled those two building,s and moved them to a 50 acre block on johnson road in NEW CANEY. He rebuilt those two and built one other in that year.In 1961 a large new Birdland house started to be assembled in a clearing in the middle of the 50 acre,s .The building was 500 feet x40 feet,with automatic egg gathering equipment,automatic watering,and time controled nest,s that controled when the chicken,s would be inside of them.{ conroe courier febuary 13,1963}page 2,sec,one.At that time it was very advanced and the first to be installed in the south.By 1963 the coogler egg farm was running full speed,17500 chickens,delivering egg,s from Houston,s north side all the way to Cleveland the other direction. By 1970 the big feed company,s had made it hard on the smaller chicken men and gene started buying his egg,s wholesale and reprocessing them for sale to his customer,s .In 1974 after 27 year,s the Coogler egg farm had to close it,s door,s. GENE was also featured in checkerboard magazine in 1956 Broiler grower of the month and in 1963 his new chicken house.Very little remains of the COOGLER EGG FARM, JUST MEMORY,S AND PICTURE,S a part of NEW CANEY HISTORY. PICTURE,S TO COME LATER