Big Dutchman Co-Founder Passes Away

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GENERAL - Jack DeWitt, who founded Big Dutchman in 1938 with his brother, Dick DeWitt, passed away at his home in Zeeland, Michigan on January 6th, 2012.

While Jack was only 24 days away from turning 101, Big Dutchman, now a worldwide leader in automated poultry and swine production systems is almost ready to celebrate its 75th birthday.

Jack DeWitt and his brother Dick DeWitt founded the company in 1938 when they set out to market their invention, which would soon revolutionize the poultry industry.

Jack DeWitt, co-founder Big DutchmanThe ?Big Dutchman? automated poultry feeder was the first automatic feeding system, featuring the flat chain concept, which remains the most popular poultry feeding technology in the world today. As Dick loved to tell, ?we had a pretty good idea that sure beat shoveling out bird feed by hand. We just had to take it out to the rest of the world?.

Jack and his brothers were the sons of Dutch immigrants who settled on a farm near Holland, Michigan. After graduating from College and returning from the service, Jack joined his brother Dick to run a poultry and hatchery business in Zeeland. Here they designed and developed and began the production of the automated poultry feeder.


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