Spareboe president says video is “shocking” and workers have been fired
November 18, 2011 at 7:52 am in West Central Tribune
LITCHFIELD The president of the Litchfield-based Sparboe Farms said today she was “deeply saddened” to see “disturbing” video of the mistreatment of egg-producing chickens at their farms. Continue Reading
Perhaps Beth Sparboe Schnell should have gotten out behind her desk and visited some of the farms and workers she is in charge of. But painkiller for debeaking? Really? Seen it and done it before. The birds kill each other all the time…many are pecked to death by others. From Wikipedia: Mortalities mainly due to cannibalism can be up to 15% in egg laying flocks housed in aviaries, straw yards and free-range systems. Because egg laying strains of chickens can be kept in smaller group sizes in caged systems, cannibalism is reduced leading to a lowered trend in mortality as compared to non-cage systems. Cannibalism among flocks is highly variable and when it is not problematic, then mortalities among production systems are similar.
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