If i remember right, this house had ~150,000 birds in the house, partitioned off into 4 pens.
While walking through, i was trying to compare the animal welfare to the cages houses I saw. This house was nice in that the floor were slatted so all the poo fell into a "pit" and thus the smell was better than a lot of the other houses i've been in, and very clean. There was more feather loss in this flock (they were pecking each other--which often happens with this strain of birds when they get older). These were a lot calmer birds, b/c of their genetics. They seemed "happier" to be, but they were calmer birds in general, so idk.
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Thanks for the posting the pictures. What I am not getting is a sense of what you think about what you are seeing. You wrote about being an advocate for the animals that can't speak. What were you feeling upon seeing rows and rows of intelligent feeling chickens. It does not look like "cage free" was that great either. It would have been interesting to get more of your feelings on that subject also. Thanks.
believe me--my feelings are against everything i saw. i was trying to keep my posts as unbiased as i could. i don't believe animals are machines for us to harvest them and their products.
and you're right, the cage free wasn't much better. "free range" on eggs doesn't mean anything either (most free range live like cage free birds)
so really, the only way to know your eggs come from chickens who are treated humanely is for you to visit the flocks (ie backyard flocks) or have your own few birds
let me know if you have more questions or comments:)
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