Chicken Abuse in Factory Farming

    Today I am going to do a special post about chickens and how they are abused in factory farms. Most chickens in factory farms are held in a cage that is called a battery cage. These cages hold four chickens and are only 16 inches long. That's about the length of a pillow! These cages are so small that hens can't spread their wings or any other natural behavior. Because the animals want to get out they rub their body against the wire side of the cage and lose many feathers and get many bruises. When chickens are bored or frustrated they peck with their beak but because the cages are so tiny they end up pecking each other. To prevent the chickens from pecking at each other, they get their beaks cut off without any painkillers! This process is very painful and it involves cutting through bone, cartilage and soft tissue. When chickens stop laying their eggs, they are not given their food because starving chickens lay more eggs for a little while!

       Chickens in factory farms are fed pellets that have drugs, bug killers and sometimes even other ground up chickens or other animals in them!

  

This picture is of chickens in battery cages.
This is my source for this image:

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/chickens-in-cages.jpg