Chicken Raising For Meat

Chicks raised for meat start their lives hatching in incubators. They never once meet their mothers.

The chicks are transported in crates and boxes to factory farms where they will spend the next 45 days, the industry average for chickens reaching slaughter weight.

Once inside the massive sheds on the factory farm, the chicks are dumped.

Tens of thousands of chicks just days old are confined in warehouse-type sheds.

Factory farms are automated—from feed dispensers to mechanized waters.