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Caged Hens Campaign
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My hens live in a closed area. They have their hen house and they have their outside yard but I have it fenced in and covered with plastic chicken wire on top. I dont want to loose any of them due to preditors. They have plenty of room and I am about to double their room. I am going to put a fenced in yard on the other side of their hen house and see if I cant manage their outside areas in order to keep grass grown for them.
I received a couple of PMs but am currently away from my computer. I will reply to you when I get home and I thank you for the polite and courteous responses. : )
I remember reading an interesting article once where a journalist visited a caged operation and a cage-free operation. She expected to write her article in favor of the cage-free method of poultry husbandry, but was upset to see that the cage-free birds were messier and although they lived in larger pens, they had more occupants and more feather picking. I thought it was a thought provoking article.
I'm pleased to be from a state where they have chaged the laws concerning battery cages. No one is going to go hungry because of it, and its going to improve the lives of the hens. Also, cage free eggs are healthier and lower in cholesterol, so it will improve the quality of life for people consuming the eggs. I also agree about it being unfair when you get called names for having an opinion. I have noticed it happening on a lot of the threads, especially deragatory and dismissive attitudes towards people with opposing viewpoints.
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Southern, I've worked with both operations and must say, the caged hens were much cleaner. Not only the hens, but the eggs. You like poopy eggs, go get some cage-free ones.
Both sides have their good points and their bad points, IMO.
Southern, I've worked with both operations and must say, the caged hens were much cleaner. Not only the hens, but the eggs. You like poopy eggs, go get some cage-free ones.
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Fancbrd, the funny thing about it all is, is that it only affects laying hens. Broilers werent affected at all with it. Also, JS West is a huge egg producer here and they made cages that were better for the hens. They were given nestboxes, roosts and dust baths, but Prop 2 told them that it wouldnt work. It cost well over a million dollars to produce it and they cant use it. People may not go hungry, but the producers that are having to spend millions to redo their entire farms are going to go broke if they dont lose their businesses all together. But like you said, everyone has an opinion. I like how we can have our own opinion and discuss it without arguing. I wish it would happen more often!
Fancbrd, the funny thing about it all is, is that it only affects laying hens. Broilers werent affected at all with it. Also, JS West is a huge egg producer here and they made cages that were better for the hens. They were given nestboxes, roosts and dust baths, but Prop 2 told them that it wouldnt work. It cost well over a million dollars to produce it and they cant use it. People may not go hungry, but the producers that are having to spend millions to redo their entire farms are going to go broke if they dont lose their businesses all together. But like you said, everyone has an opinion. I like how we can have our own opinion and discuss it without arguing. I wish it would happen more often!
Luckily, it's usually the PARENTS who buy the eggs, so appealing to the kids may be a mute point? I'm aware of the "cage free" practices, but I truly believe a chicken should be able to stretch it's wings and walk around, even tho it's incredibly crowded. Since I have my own 30+ chickens free-ranging on 2 acres, I don't have to succumb to buying store-bought eggs, and am able to supply close friends with truly free-range eggs. I wish there was a better way than the "cage free" situations in existence now, but I feel anything is better than the battery cages...
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Southern, I've worked with both operations and must say, the caged hens were much cleaner. Not only the hens, but the eggs. You like poopy eggs, go get some cage-free ones.
Both sides have their good points and their bad points, IMO.
Yes caged hens do produce cleaner eggs.
Trouble people dont understand about cage free hens, these hens are packed in barns with no more room than the cages hens. Caged free birds kill each other pile on top of other hens. Will even start eating the other hens alive, now which is more cruel . In the cage other hens can eat them alive.
Now people get the idea that cage free hen, are more like free range.
IMO its the room a chicken has not if in a cage or packed in barns....
Like I raise my peachicks and poults on wire for the first few months(large area) to keep disease down, those that raise them on the ground lose some ,I DONT.
Southern, I've worked with both operations and must say, the caged hens were much cleaner. Not only the hens, but the eggs. You like poopy eggs, go get some cage-free ones.
Yes caged hens do produce cleaner eggs.
Trouble people dont understand about cage free hens, these hens are packed in barns with no more room than the cages hens. Caged free birds kill each other pile on top of other hens. Will even start eating the other hens alive, now which is more cruel . In the cage other hens can eat them alive.
Now people get the idea that cage free hen, are more like free range.
IMO its the room a chicken has not if in a cage or packed in barns....
Like I raise my peachicks and poults on wire for the first few months(large area) to keep disease down, those that raise them on the ground lose some ,I DONT.
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Southern, I've worked with both operations and must say, the caged hens were much cleaner. Not only the hens, but the eggs. You like poopy eggs, go get some cage-free ones.
Both sides have their good points and their bad points, IMO.
Yes caged hens do produce cleaner eggs.
Trouble people dont understand about cage free hens, these hens are packed in barns with no more room than the cages hens. Caged free birds kill each other pile on top of other hens. Will even start eating the other hens alive, now which is more cruel . In the cage other hens can eat them alive.
Now people get the idea that cage free hen, are more like free range.
IMO its the room a chicken has not if in a cage or packed in barns....
Like I raise my peachicks and poults on wire for the first few months(large area) to keep disease down, those that raise them on the ground lose some ,I DONT.
Yup Yup Yup! Cage-Free does NOT equal Free-Range.
Southern, I've worked with both operations and must say, the caged hens were much cleaner. Not only the hens, but the eggs. You like poopy eggs, go get some cage-free ones.
Yes caged hens do produce cleaner eggs.
Trouble people dont understand about cage free hens, these hens are packed in barns with no more room than the cages hens. Caged free birds kill each other pile on top of other hens. Will even start eating the other hens alive, now which is more cruel . In the cage other hens can eat them alive.
Now people get the idea that cage free hen, are more like free range.
IMO its the room a chicken has not if in a cage or packed in barns....
Like I raise my peachicks and poults on wire for the first few months(large area) to keep disease down, those that raise them on the ground lose some ,I DONT.
Yup Yup Yup! Cage-Free does NOT equal Free-Range.
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