Chick delivery US style in the 1940s Chester Bell, manager of the Cobb hatchery at Jasper, Alabama, pictured with his wife Louise loading chicks into this Model A Ford truck. Photos: Cobb
The story of Cobb begins with Robert C. Cobb senior who set his sights on farming after graduating in 1916. His real obsession was chickens and his existing activities were only the base for poultry breeding to begin. Jerry Moye, the current president of Cobb-Vantress, took the time to speak to World Poultry. Cobb started with Robert C. Cobb senior who graduated from Harvard Business School in the summer of 1916 and set his sights on going into farming. The opportunity came in November with his
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