Inside view of Modern Layer Facility

[fancbrd4me02]

I thought the video was interesting. That's one of the nicer more modern facilities for sure. At least they stuck to the practical explanations about why they choose to farm that way. Not all layer operations are that modern, and the video really makes it seem like they are....

 

[gvntofly05]

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Maybe not. Depends on how well managed the facility was. On the other side of the coin not too long ago there was a big hoo haw about supposed abuses at a local egg farm. An animal rights group had supposedly gone there undercover and shot video as proof. Big media coverage and all that. Turned out the videos were all staged and now the egg farm is suing the animal rights group. Hope they win big time.

I am not basing my comments off of animal rights videos, I am basing them off of actually being in egg production plants. My dad used to work for a chicken farm. (In Indiana!) The saddest part is when these hens reach the end of their laying time and are crammed into crates to head off to the meat production plant, theirs happened to go for the chicken in Campbell's chicken noodle soup, (at the time my dad worked it was 6 hens to every 16"x24" crate before being loaded on to the truck!)

I have seen the conditions first hand. They are never so clean. Both sides can produce videos. I choose to make informed decisions from my own experiences.

 

[NYREDS]

Healthy with no chemicals for mass production

Like what?​

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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Like what?

Yes, please enlighten us on the chemicals needed for mass production.

 

[augustmomx2]

Ummm...Mr. Moustache Man...if this is the case, why do my eggs look and taste soooooo much better than that plant's eggs? Oh that's right, they get to be chickens

 

[77horses]

Oh don't get me started...

The way battery hens are treated today at factories make me mad...and glad to eat my own eggs that come from my own healthy, happy, and loved chickens...who actually get to be chickens, unlike the battery hens. One thing I would want to do in my life is somehow get into a bunch of those evil factories, take all those poor hens, and set them free! They probably have never had grass before. But if I could set them all free, I would.

So sad how humans treat animals these days...Makes me wish even more that everything was much more "natural" a long time ago. Wouldn't it be wonderful if all factory farms were transformed into clean farms where the chickens were cared for and allowed to free range properly?

 

[Sunny the Hippie Chick]

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I noticed that too. Even though it looked clean in there.. Those poor hens with no where to really walk.. And probably bored out of their minds.. I bet they dream about being in a backyard flock...

 

[Tala]

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They are probably hot. With that many bodies in those metal buildings, they heat up. Chicken houses in Arkansas have problems with overheating even in the wintertime!!!!!

 

[Kim_NC]

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They are probably hot. With that many bodies in those metal buildings, they heat up. Chicken houses in Arkansas have problems with overheating even in the wintertime!!!!!

I was thinking exactly that - they look too hot.

 

[Junkmanme]

I thought it was a very honest and straight-forward video.

I recall a situation that occurred at a "chicken-facility" in Weld County, Colorado, east of Greeley in about 1980:

When a hen's egg-production "falls-off", that chicken is "culled" and replaced by a new layer. The culled chickens often go to "Campbell's Soup Company", amongst others.

To facilitate a cleaner, speedier, "culling process", some fella invented a "Chicken Vacuum". It was Mobile (on a large truck). The chickens would be "vacuumed" through a hose into a bin on the truck. The process killed the chicken and mostly "plucked it" rapidly.

The A.S.P.C.A. protested this method as "inhumane". Therefore, it was STOPPED.

(In my opinion, this is an example of "uninformed, knee-jerk radicalism" that hinders MANY advances in Commercial Pursuits......much similar to the "Environmental Hang-ups" associated with protecting a useless fish called the "snail-darter". THAT little fish has cost MILLIONS of $$$ for no good reason. No wonder USA business has trouble competing with China. Just one man's honest opinion.)

No doubt there are MANY opposing viewpoints. We don't all have to agree with "outfits" like "You know who - four letters begins with P and ends with A", etc.

Sincerely,
-Junkmanme-