This chicken's head is caught in the narrow opening designed to allow eggs to roll out easily. Chickens found in this condition are often seriously injured and may need to be killed by a worker who pulls on the head to sever the spinal cord.
- This chicken's head is caught in the narrow opening designed to allow eggs to roll out easily. Chickens found in this condition are often seriously injured and may need to be killed by a worker who pulls on the head to sever the spinal cord.
- Chickens in these egg production cages at Michael Foods do not have room to stand up and remain hunched over painfully for their entire adult lives.
- Eggs can be see rolling along the collection trough beneath the accumulated filth of the cages.
- A worker at Michael Foods egg production facility accidentally pulled the head of a chicken with his hands. The wire cages often injure chickens which need to be euthanized by hand.
- The decomposing remains of a chicken carcass that has just been removed from a cage with live laying hens after rotting there for a week or more.
- Eggs from live chickens roll down off the dead, feces covered carcasses of week-old rotting chickens until they are discovered and removed from the cages.
- This chicken is trapped and although it will be discovered quickly because it's position interferes with the egg collection, it may be seriously injured. Mnay others get trapped by their cages and die, unable to reach food or water.
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