Battery Hens

 Battery Hen Farms

Why do we keep hens in disgusting little cages?  It’s like the hens are the crops and the eggs are what they are harvesting.  I think that battery hens conditions are extremely cruel.  In this essay I’ll tell you why.

First of all the battery hens have small uncomfortable cages.  The hens have hardly any room with 4-5 hens in a minuscule cage, they only get three quarters of an A4 piece paper to live on.  Their feet get sore or broken from standing on fragile wire 24/7.

They pretty much live in poo pits.  Poo falls in between the wire bars and catches on metal sheets.  It means that they live in ammonia filled air.  The ammonia kills them from the inside out. Poor little hens.

Furthermore they NEVER get to see the sun.  The farmers use fake sunrises and sunsets.  Lastly farmers keep lights on 16 hours in winter so the hens lay and don’t slack.

Although battery hen eggs are cheaper it’s unethical to do that to hens or any other animal.

By Sophie