The hens are fed and watered automatically, and their homogenised food is treated with antibiotics, artificial yolk colouring and medication. Their dung is taken away from the cages via conveyor belts. She will stay in the wire battery cage for the rest of her life. They are frustrated because they are prevented from obeying their instincts, so they squabble. They peck at each other, pulling out feathers and causing injuries.
Some battery hens end up almost entirely bald, and some even die.
The pullet is now ten months old, and will become a hen as soon as she lays her first egg. She is free to choose her own food from forage and that offered to her by her owners. The pullet is now ten months old, and will become a hen as soon as she lays her first egg. She has been in the battery cage for a long time now. The hen wants to flap and stretch her wings.