Poultry farms require a constant supply of electricity to operate efficiently and keep birds alive. Loss of power can have disastrous results on a house of broilers nearing harvest age. Fifteen minutes is all it takes to lose an entire house of chickens if conditions are right. To prevent such a catastrophe, most poultry farms today have some type of automated and “fairly” reliable backup generator system. Note we say “fairly” reliable because every year chickens are lost to some form of generator failure (no fuel, dead battery, weak starter, and so forth).