they are cheap because the quality of life and food they ate was poor, they have been trapped in a small pen with 2 other chickens for all their life, and are killed if their eggs aren't the perfect size, or they produce no eggs.
Yes chickens get a shock.
No
it makes them poo
30,000,000 chickens - 85% battery hens
yes.
battery farm are small cages. especialy, battery cages for chickens are to small
They are called battery chickens because they have been reared and kept in cages - normally a battery farm will consist of row after row of small cages which hardly give the hens room to move but do leave them enough room to eat and lay eggs.Why is it called a battery? Well, a 'battery of something' can be used as a way to describe a large number of that something all in one place.. . as in artillery battery, an organized group of artillery pieces, or in chess, where a battery is a tactic consisting of placing two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal.In the case of battery hens, they've been kept in one of a battery of cages.
placeswere chickens are kept is called the "chicken coop"
Are reared chicken in smallcages called batteries
I don't know the exact reason why but it could be due to their diet. I don't know if free-range hens eat the same kind of diet as battery hens but i do know that battery hens are given cheap, non-nutritional cereal. When it comes to the world of meat and egg birds, only one rule applies: - the more expensive the eggs or meat, the more horrible conditions and more torture the birds have to face.
A cheap hybrid battery for Toyota Prius 2006 can be bought from online stores.
It's a cheap source of protein that has a mild flavor and is easy to prepare.