Commercial Chicken Farm Research Project

[QueenAvis]

Hi everybody,
I'm doing research for Commercial Chicken Farm Cruelty. I will be writing and presenting a report on this subject and I have a few questions. If you answer any of the questions,please make sure your information is accurate and from a liable recourse. As I do not want any exaggerating of information. Also if you have rescued and cared for ex - battery hens I would love to hear your story. Thanks in advance!!!!

Note: All answers must relate to USA commercial farms

Note: For questions that answers can only be estimated answer to the best of your knowledge


1) What consists in the poultry's diets?

2) What is the basic layout of a commercial farm?

3) How many birds per cage?

4) How often are the cages cleaned?

5) How many casualties a year?

6) How do they dispose of the bodies?

7) What problems and illnesses do the battery hens get?how are they cured?

8) What do the hens drink from and how often is the water changed?

9) What medical necessities should you have on hand before rescuing a battery hen (or more)?

10) Where does the manure collect and often is it cleaned?

11) What happens to the hens once their productivity slows down?

12) Where do they grow up before reaching an egg farm?
Avis North

 

[Shadowfire]

Hi everybody,
I'm doing research for Commercial Chicken Farm Cruelty. I will be writing and presenting a report on this subject and I have a few questions. If you answer any of the questions,please make sure your information is accurate and from a liable recourse. As I do not want any exaggerating of information. Also if you have rescued and cared for ex - battery hens I would love to hear your story. Thanks in advance!!!!

Note: All answers must relate to USA commercial farms

Note: For questions that answers can only be estimated answer to the best of your knowledge


1) What consists in the poultry's diets?

2) What is the basic layout of a commercial farm?

3) How many birds per cage?

4) How often are the cages cleaned?

5) How many casualties a year?

6) How do they dispose of the bodies?

7) What problems and illnesses do the battery hens get?how are they cured?

8) What do the hens drink from and how often is the water changed?

9) What medical necessities should you have on hand before rescuing a battery hen (or more)?

10) Where does the manure collect and often is it cleaned?

11) What happens to the hens once their productivity slows down?

12) Where do they grow up before reaching an egg farm?
Avis North

I have read from reliable sources that many poultry farms make their birds suffer from high ammonia levels (from waste) and they just squawk and cry helplessly. _ Tracy Stewart

 

[QueenAvis]

I have read from reliable sources that many poultry farms make their birds suffer from high ammonia levels (from waste) and they just squawk and cry helplessly. _ Tracy Stewart

That's so sad

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Hi everybody,
I'm doing research for Commercial Chicken Farm Cruelty. I will be writing and presenting a report on this subject and I have a few questions. If you answer any of the questions,please make sure your information is accurate and from a liable recourse. As I do not want any exaggerating of information. Also if you have rescued and cared for ex - battery hens I would love to hear your story. Thanks in advance!!!!

Note: All answers must relate to USA commercial farms

Note: For questions that answers can only be estimated answer to the best of your knowledge


1) What consists in the poultry's diets?

2) What is the basic layout of a commercial farm?

3) How many birds per cage?

4) How often are the cages cleaned?

5) How many casualties a year?

6) How do they dispose of the bodies?

7) What problems and illnesses do the battery hens get?how are they cured?

8) What do the hens drink from and how often is the water changed?

9) What medical necessities should you have on hand before rescuing a battery hen (or more)?

10) Where does the manure collect and often is it cleaned?

11) What happens to the hens once their productivity slows down?

12) Where do they grow up before reaching an egg farm?
Avis North

1. It’s a commercial layer feed most likely manufactured by the individual poultry farm. The egg industry is vertically integrated meaning that the breeding stock, grow outs, layers/broilers, slaughtering, packaging, and feed manufacturing are all owned and operated by the individual poultry farm.

3. I believe the industry average is 5-8 with 3 birds for cage sometimes.

4. Never. The cages have wire floors and a rotating conveyer belt moves waste from under the cages.

5. I’d estimate that from debeaking to slaughter 1/8 of the birds probably die before final slaughter.

6. Dumping them in garbage dumpsters, incineration, or burying the bodies.

7. The battery hens can suffer from sensitivity in their beaks from being debeaked, internal laying, water belly, prolapse, cannibalism, and bumble foot. In commercial warehouse style factory farms for poultry the chickens are never treated for their ailments. They are either left to die or removed while still alive and disposed of if they are not laying.

8. I believe water nipples are used as they take up little space and can’t get dirty.

9. I’d say have electrolytes, vetrx, and bluekote on hand.

11. The factory farming poultry industry has an “all in all out” policy. This means that when populating a layer house with egg layers they bring in all the pullets at one time. After 18 months of production when the hens are around 2 years old the whole entire warehouse is euthanized, sanitized, and prepared for the new arrivals.

12. Most likely the pullets are floor raised on site until they are large enough to be transferred to the the layer “barn”.

Here is a first hand account of a woman visiting a factory farm for her very first time. https://www.salon.com/2019/04/20/i-...s-visiting-one-was-far-worse-than-i-imagined/

 

[drumstick diva]

How horrible - sounds like concentration camps .