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Janet Baraclough wrote:

The "debeaking " that happens to chickens intended for mass-production
farms, cuts only the tip of the top beak back, so it endsvery slightly
shorter than the bottom one.

Unfortunately, these two have lost a bit of the bottom as well -- you can
imagine how short their beaks are :-( When I said "savagely debeaked", I
really meant it!

I will only buy battery eggs if I am desperate.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.