Chickens and chicks

Chickens and chicks

Chickens are social, gregarious, and very intelligent beings, but nowadays everyone doesn't care. Everyone wants eggs, everyone wants meat, but nobody finds out about the poor living conditions of farm animals. In this article I want to bring to light the truth about the life of chickens and chicks and a topic that has been forgotten.

In Germany, 18,700,000,000 eggs are eaten every year. If you stack these in a row, they would go to the moon and back. Hens that live in the wild lay a maximum of 15 eggs per year. It is of course different in companies.

There is a trick so that the hen lays eggs every day. We humans play e.g. the fox who steals the eggs, and the chickens then have to provide for new offspring.

Hens lay up to 200 eggs a year.

Why do hens lay eggs at all?

Hens do not lay eggs for us humans to make cakes or fried eggs. Hens lay eggs as offspring. In every egg we eat a cute chick could hatch from it.

How does an egg become a chick?

As soon as the egg is fertilized by the rooster, the hen sits on it and broods. It's nice and warm under her duvet and the chick can grow up in the egg. Protein and yolk provide it with nutrients. The chick hatches 21 days after the egg is laid.

Chicks cannot hatch from the eggs we eat because we take them away from the hens before they are hatched.

Theoretically, we then eat an “aborted chick”.

So that one knows from which animal husbandry the eggs are, they are marked with a number.

The first number is the decisive one.

If the first number on the egg is a 0, it is from organic farming.

The number 1 stands for free range farming.

The two numbers (0 or 1) are best for the chickens. You have enough space in the stable and plenty of exercise outside. The chickens with the egg marked with a 0 are fed with organic feed, in contrast to those with the numbers 1, 2 or 3.

Most eggs, however, are marked with a 2. This number stands for barn farming. The hens are only kept in a smaller space in the barn.

The number 3 is the worst: the chickens whose eggs are marked with a 3 have to spend their lives in a narrow cage and know neither freedom nor daylight.

This is real animal cruelty!

The sad life of the one-day-chicks

The chicks that we do not eat in the form of eggs are often sorted by gender.

The females are mostly kept as laying hens, the males are gassed within a few hours after birth or put in the shredder because they cannot lay eggs. They are also hardly used as broilers because they offer too little meat. Therefore, male chicks are only a by-product for humans and therefore totally pointless.

Far too little is written or spoken of such agonizing conditions in "farm animals", as it may be uncomfortable to hear for many.

The brutal process is very sad, but this issue should come to light, because we can no longer ignore such abuse, we must do something about it!

“This is my official chicken and egg strike!”

For a world without torture, please everyone!