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Duck and Hen Exhibit
These animals, although provided with water, appeared bored senseless, sitting alone in a small cage for days (or maybe their whole lives). Apart from the inappropriate housing and lack of stimulation (a requirement expected of the Act and RSPCA’s Five Freedoms), children were seen to taunt these defenseless creatures. A picture taken shows a young girl gleefully screaming at the birds and leaning into the cages. Her parents did not once attempt to correct this behaviour and explain that frightening these confined creatures was cruel. Research shows that children who derive pleasure from intimidating, hurting or killing animals often grow up to display similar violent behaviour towards fellow humans. Compassion to others, especially those with no voice is vital when raising kind, compassionate, empathetic adults.
What they don’t show you:The reality for most hens in Australia is extreme confinement, brutal transportation and slaughter. Other abuse that these sentient creatures have to endure under the current farming system are: male chicks killed at one day old, by crushing, mincing and suffocation; farmers cut off a third of the chicken's beak with a hot wire guillotine which causes severe pain where the nerves in the beak stump are still active and the hen suffers pain for months even years; many have great difficulty eating for the rest of their lives; farmers reduce the non-productive molt period by semi or total starvation of the hens, in order to bring them back on-lay more quickly with many hens dying during this process. A battery hen spends her short life in a cage crammed in with up to seven other birds. She stands on a space smaller than a leaflet on thin sloping wire - her feet and legs crippled in huge artificially lit sheds. She cannot perch, preen, scratch in the dirt, dust-bathe, spread her wings, escape to a quiet place to lay an egg or raise her offspring - all activities known to be extremely important to the behavioural needs of a hen. Battery Hens are prone to bone breakages, as their bones are brittle through over-production of eggs and lack of exercise. Many have Osteoporosis and by the time they are finally slaughtered up to 56 per cent of caged hens have suffered painful fractures. Battery Cages do not allow hens to exercise most normal patterns of behaviour. Furthermore, they contravene a more basic principle. In 1964 the UK Government set up a committee under Professor Roger Bramwell, to consider welfare in intensive (factory) farming. This was their finding: "An animal should at least have sufficient freedom of movement to be able without difficulty to turn around, groom itself, get up, lie down and stretch its limbs" |
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