This is how rescue hen Zailey tells us she's ready to lay an egg. Chickens are so smart! | The Gentle Barn

Look at her body 😔 "Egg laying hens" suffer such horrific lives. 🐔💔 "Battery hens" spend their entire lives crammed in these cages like you see in this video. Never feeling comfort, wire mesh and faces beneath their feet. Distressed birds furiously peck at each other, sometimes resorting to cannibalism. It's an unimaginably bleak environment. 😖 Naturally, hens would only lay 10-15 eggs a year, not 300 plus. We forced this on them too, through selective breeding. This is extremely taxing on t

Hen lays her first egg 🐓

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