They frequently gnaw the bars. Piglets nurse from their mothers through iron bars. Their bodies are mutilated without pain killers. They suffer castration, ear notching and tail docking without anesthesia Kept on concrete floors. No bedding material.
Respiratory illness is common, due to the crowded conditions they are forced to endure indoors.
They are naturally very clean animals but are forced to eat, sleep, eliminate, give birth, and nurse their babies in the same tiny space. The end of their beak is cut off without anesthesia. The beak is made of cartilage, bone and soft tissue. Hens exist in wire cages so small they can't stretch a wing or a leg. Wire floors cause pain and deformed feet.