why are their ex battery rooster?

[sydney13]

ive heard of people who have ex battery roosters. How do they get them because i thought the factories killed the roos as chicks

 

[gritsar]

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Around here they have two types of "battery houses", ones that produce unfertile eggs for sale in the grocery stores and the ones where fertile eggs are produced to replace the egg laying hens. Those houses don't qualify as battery houses IMO, because the hens are kept on the floor, not in cages. Our neighbor has worked for Tyson for more than 40 years (back when it was Lane Poultry around here), in all aspects of the operation. He once told me that the roosters that service those hens really have a strut to them. I can imagine.