The Reality of "Egg Production"

At birth the male chicks are sorted form the female chicks. As the male chicks are useless for the egg production and cannot be used for food (because the chickens are special breed for egg production and are not suitable for meat production), they are killed immediately (gassed, suffocated, “shredded” and processed as animal feed or fertilizer).



Their suffering is at least shorter then those of the hens of which 90% end up in laying batteries

This is the space a hen in a laying battery lives on:

Approx. 20 cm x 20 cm of thin wire mesh, inclined so the eggs can role of.
Often the hens legs can’t cope with the stress of standing on this surface all the time. Their legs break.

Their beaks are often truncated, so that are not pecking each other or themselves, because they are extremely stressed. While the chickens bread for meat are often kept in complete darkness, the laying hens are exposed of up to 20 hours of light to stimulate their ovulation.

After 14 month they are “finished” and killed off.

15% don’t live that long and die before in the cages, due to the conditions in which they are kept and illness linked to the over-breeding.