How to check if hen has not been a battery hen?

[GhettoRoo]

I just purchased hens, pretty normal in weight, but broken beaks.
They should be 11 months old.
They dont jump well on my 1 meter high roost..
So, is there some way to find it out?
Tomorrow im gonna let them together with mine hens, so, fighting skills will be shown....

 

[GitaBooks]

Battery hens usually have poor feather quality, poor foot quality, and will probably be leghorns or red stars.

 

[GhettoRoo]

 

[enola]

If they are battery hens, they are probably not 11 months old. More like 18-24 months.

 

[GhettoRoo]

If they are battery hens, they are probably not 11 months old. More like 18-24 months.

This fact is in the sky you know. Even they wont be, these brown ones could be hard to tell, 1 or 3 years old. Im gonna look how good layers they gonna be.
First day or two they probably gonna acclimatise.
But afterwards they should lay every day. 12 hens, 10-12 eggs per day..

 

[GitaBooks]

Those do look like battery hens, the poor girls.

 

[GhettoRoo]

Those do look like battery hens, the poor girls.

This is very importand, if they are, even in nighttime im gonna bring em to forest.
Im interested what viruses they can bring to me. I had lot of chicken breed chiks now, 2 weeks old, 1 month old, 2 months. And roosters which aint in money prize, so I dont wanna risk.
Seller told they are incubated and always lived in kennel.

Im interested what viruses they can bring.

 

[GitaBooks]

There are a variety of viruses they could have without showing symptoms. Could you send in a blood sample for testing?

 

[GhettoRoo]

There are a variety of viruses they could have without showing symptoms. Could you send in a blood sample for testing?

Never had done it. Dont know if someone in my country is doing that.

 

[GhettoRoo]

The last pic looks like battery hens too??