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Janet · 13-12-2011, 08:00 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

In article ,
says...

In article ,
Janet writes
That is nothing new, premature death has always been the inevitable fate
of battery hens as soon as their egg production rate falls off...usually
less than a year after they started laying.

The UK will continue commercial egg production from hens that spend
their entire short life in cages; just very slightly larger cages than the
previous "battery" ones.

Janet.

But presumably some of these will be young battery hens? If they can
move them to bigger cages then I would have thought all these poor
"doomed to die early" ones will be passed on to the next concentrated
food production?

For sure people whose living depends on hens and egg production will
not get rid of producing birds if it's financially, practically
viable to move the same birds to bigger cages and continue meeting
production orders. But it's a big if. Battery hens are already, under
huge stress; under the additional stress of being decanted and stored
while someone changes their factory housing system, will almost certainly
go off lay and no producer keeps feeding battery hens that stopped laying.

janet