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Q. Where and how are the hens housed? A. Eggland’s Best farms are located all across the U.S. Our regular Eggland's Best eggs in the white carton are from caged hens. Cages are the most prevalent housing system in the commercial egg industry because cages still offer the best sanitation, ventilation, and freedom from dust and ammonia. Cages offer the most disease-free environment, since the hens do not have access to others' waste and there is no organic matter for bacteria to grow on. There are also fewer problems with hens pecking each other when they are caged in small groups with a rigidly defined social order, rather than the continual mingling and challenging that goes on in a large barn.

The Eggland's Best Cage-Free and Organic eggs are from cage-free hens. Cage-free means the hens can roam around in a very large building, but do not have outdoor access like free-range hens. The cage-free environment offers greater freedom for movement and is rapidly expanding distribution in the marketplace. To protect the birds from each other, a process is done by special equipment, which cauterizes the beak and may be compared to clipping a dog's claws. Beak trimming is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "de-beaking". Beaks are not removed or the birds could not eat. The sharp tips of chicks' beaks are trimmed or "blunted" to lessen injury to each other. Beak trimming is done when chicks are less than a week old. Beak-trimmed chicks will immediately resume pecking, eating and drinking as though nothing had happened.

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http://www.avma.org/reference/backgrounders/beak_trimming_bgnd.pdf
Welfare Implications of Beak Trimming


Pullets trimmed with scissors show fewer bill-related behaviors and spend more
time performing passive behaviors, such as resting and standing, when compared to untrimmed pullets.6
Beak-trimmed pullets also show more guarding behaviors, such as tucking the bill under the wing, which have been associated with pain.6 In many cases these behavioral effects are no longer obvious by 3 weeks after trimming (with scissors), although they may persist for months.6

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Related behaviors may also be less effective as trimmed birds have been shown to carry more lice.15 This may be because birds are slower to respond and less effective at removing material from their feathers (when trimmed with a hot-blade debeaker).3 This reduced responsiveness has been equated to helplessness-related passivity and, as such, a state of suffering.3

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Beak-trimming is currently considered to be a necessary management practice for poultry. Although younger birds that are beak trimmed experience less neuroma formation and have relatively normal oral behaviors, all methods of beak-trimming induce pain and physiologic stress in birds.

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Hmmm, cruelty to animals is often a sign of psychopathy - does this double as a management training program?

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My girlfriend in johanesburg, just got herself a horse, big black beauty he is, but has had trouble with his feet/hooves. She found out that his scars and major hoof necrosis was caused by "soring" simply so the horses lift their feet up when "showing".

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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy

FR

Who gives a fuck, they are chickens.

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Like any criminals, they seem to find more and better ways to hide their crimes....

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

My girlfriend in johanesburg, just got herself a horse, big black beauty he is, but has had trouble with his feet/hooves. She found out that his scars and major hoof necrosis was caused by "soring" simply so the horses lift their feet up when "showing". She is now an activist to get the info out there, some of the video has been sickening. Human beings really are scummy pieces of shit and selfish and cruel to anything they dont understand, hell even to things they do understand.
One cant stop all the ugliness in the world, but you cant give up trying to help it be a better place.
I know im gonna get laughed at , but its my truth.