Why are large chicken farms always so dark?

You may have seen some videos of large chicken farms on the Internet. The chickens are kept in small cages.

The chicken farm is still very dark and dark everywhere. Why do chicken farms create such unnatural living conditions for chickens?

In fact, a major purpose of the dim setting is to prevent the occurrence of chicken-eating incidents, and the protagonist of chicken-eating is the chicken himself.

Do you know how many chickens on chicken farms die? Died from the pecking of their companions.

Yes, chickens, as well as turkeys, pheasants, and many poultry have a strange habit of pecking at their fellows.

In chicken world, there is a brutal ruling order like the pecking order. A high pecking order represents a high status. Chickens with a high pecking order can eat first, and they can bully chickens with a lower status.

Cannibalism caused by pecking order generally has two forms, one is feather pecking and the other is to peck the anus.

Cannibalism in chickens is not limited to adult chickens. Sometimes chickens will also start eating eggs if there are broken eggs in the nest.

Another habit of chickens is that after seeing a chicken that has been bullied to the point of losing its hair and bald and bleeding, other chickens will bully it instead of helping the weak.

For chicken farms, as long as there is one infected chicken, there may be a large-scale massacre, resulting in heavy losses.

If the number of chickens is large, in order to continuously ensure their respective positions, the chickens will frequently fight infighting, resulting in casualties. This is also the reason why we see some bald chickens that have been pecked off in some large chicken farms.

Occasionally, a lack of methionine can also lead to pecking of the same species. For chickens, methionine is an essential amino acid that cannot be synthesized by the body and must be ingested through food. And because the feathers of birds contain sulfur-methionine, chickens lacking sulfur will peck at the feathers of other chickens, leading to cannibalism.

In addition, chickens have glands called lick glands. If the food lacks salt, the secretions of the lick glands are not salty enough and tasteless, and the chickens will peck the lick glands of other chickens to supplement the salt.

 Cutting off a third of a chicken’s beak, known as beak trimming, is a common method.

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