What is caged chicken animal farming?
Caged animal farming (specifically chickens), also known as battery farming for chickens, is where hens spend all their life in small cages with up to 20 other hens in the cage with them, where each hen has only the size of an A4 piece of paper to move around. They are kept in large sheds with artificial light This small confined space means chickens cannot perform instinctual behaviors such as flapping their wings, stretching, grooming and preening as well as dust bathing, scratching and foraging. These hens are also constantly standing on wire floors, often with a slope for easier egg collection, which results in chronic pain and foot problems as well as osteoporosis and fractures.
Due to living in these stressful conditions, hens become fearful and frustrated, this results in behaviors such as bullying, pecking and cannibalism. Farming are worried that this behavior will 'devalue the product' so to solve this issue, farmers cut of the beaks of hens of using a hot blade or sawing them off. The beaks are full of nerve endings, and the chickens do not receive any type pain relief to help cope. Shockingly, this is lawful to do so.
Conditions in the sheds where they are kept is terrible. Animal rescue teams who have entered factory farms have reported seeing dead chicken carcasses on the floor, filthy cages that are almost never cleaned, chickens crammed in tiny cages with their feathers falling out and other mutilating diseases. Hens often die in their cages and are not removed, meaning the other hens have to live with the carcasses of their 'cagemates' while they are left to rot.
Due to living in these stressful conditions, hens become fearful and frustrated, this results in behaviors such as bullying, pecking and cannibalism. Farming are worried that this behavior will 'devalue the product' so to solve this issue, farmers cut of the beaks of hens of using a hot blade or sawing them off. The beaks are full of nerve endings, and the chickens do not receive any type pain relief to help cope. Shockingly, this is lawful to do so.
Conditions in the sheds where they are kept is terrible. Animal rescue teams who have entered factory farms have reported seeing dead chicken carcasses on the floor, filthy cages that are almost never cleaned, chickens crammed in tiny cages with their feathers falling out and other mutilating diseases. Hens often die in their cages and are not removed, meaning the other hens have to live with the carcasses of their 'cagemates' while they are left to rot.