This page on a link from the feather site link to hug a chicken. Y'all know that laying hens are treated badly but I bet you didn't know it was this bad. Yeah you know about the cramped spaces, shortend life, blah blah blah. But I bet you din't know about blind strains, the fait of cockerals, ect. So click hear if you aren't depressed or angry becuase you will be when your done.

YoYo

Yes Yoyo, I realised that in late december, and I am still under a kind of stroke. it is never to late to learn, what a misery for thoses farm animals. Imagine ground live chicks, the short life of thoses hens. etc, etc... What can we do? what can I do? I look at my funny girls (hens) over here, and they are enjoying life. More and more people are working against that and one day if I can, I will me to. Truly, Johanne

I also am aware of the treatment of poultry on "factory farms". In fact, the treatment of veal calves, dairy cows, beef cattle, pigs and all other animals raised commercially for our dinner tables suffer horribly during their lives AND during the slaughter process.

The Humane Farming Association and Farm Sanctuary are two groups that I am aware of -- and I'm sure there are many more out there -- that are working to improve conditions for farm animals. I send donations to each of them as often as I can in the hopes that it may make a difference someday.

I too look at my chickens enjoying their free range lives, and cant help comparing their lot to those chickens in battery farms - its one of the reasons I decided to keep chickens, so I could eat eggs with an easy conscience. As for the other animals, well I gave up eating meat about 12 years ago because I couldnt justify to myself the way the animals are treated, during their lives and in the manner of their deaths, just so I could eat their flesh. Unfortunately, its not feasible for me to keep a house cow for milk, so eating other dairy products such as cheese is still a bit of a problem for me. I just try to buy organic where possible.

Oh my gosh! That is sooo disgusting.
Those poor animals.

maybe we should remind those birds of ours how lucky they have it; caring owners, nice hen house, corn in the feeder...kind of like when we were kids and our parents compared us to kids in China :)

We have a small farm and we raise chickens and hogs and beef and we eat them it is that simple. We use the chickens for the eggs and when they do not lay anymore we eat them. We DO NOT name our animals except for the ones we will not be eating. We both have good jobs and can very much afford to buy our meat in a store but then we would not know what they have been fed. We could buy organic I guess but eating an animal that has been fed things that I would not eat ie. kelp for example does not exactly turn me on. When I feed my animals they are eating grain that was grown on our farm taken to the mill and mixed with only natural ingrediants (no Kelp) and then they a butchered the old fashioned way and then enjoyed.
Come on folks if you don't like that stuff turn your computer off.