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Battery Hens Australia Australia has one main organization called ALV (Animal Liberation Victoria). The ALV have been through many battery sheds throughout Australia and saved thousands of hens and propose to save many more. If you would like to visit the ALV's website click on the hyperlink 1.

The hens suffer from premature death, the backside of the hens becomes bare and swollen from force mating, at one day old the male chicks are killed in industrial blenders, suffocated with plastic bags or drowned. The hens also suffer from brittle bones because of the lack of calcium, Beak mutilation and overcrowding.

What can I do to help ? 1. Only purchase free-range eggs. 2. Farm chickens from home in small numbers (no more than six). 3. Become a campaigner.

Where do our eggs come from? What’s interesting is if you ask someone what eggs they would by they would say free-range but most people actually don't they bye either Barn laid which are chickens that can rome around in a covered aria and lay eggs when they want. Battery eggs are from chickens they are kept in cages all their life. They are crammed into the sheds with at least 80,000 other chickens and live in there own manure.

How did battery hen laying techniques develop? At first the battery technique was a sustainable way to produce eggs because they didn't need to feed them because they weren't moving around so they didn't need the energy and protein that normal chickens needed and they were always in cages so it was easier to take care of them.