Free range chickens are allowed to run
freely and have a lot more space and grass to be as natural as possible. Whereas battery
chickens are kept locked up in cages with thousands of other battery chickens
they can hardly move because the other animals are in their way some die of
poor conditions. Battery farm chickens are egg layers in cages normally
there is for chickens to each cage. Free
range chickens mean that they are not in a cage but it does not necessarily
mean that they have more than 1 square foot of space per bird or the birds ever
get outside very often.
The size of
a battery chicken cage is 450 square cm and the minimum floor area to 800 square cm this is how much space a battery chicken gets to share
with 3-4 other chickens for the rest of their life. On the other hand for a chicken to be classed as a free ranged chicken it must
have at least half of its life time continuous daytime access to open air runs
and an area mainly covered in vegetation with the area being not less than 1cm2
for each free range chicken. Life is very different
for each of the birds and the difference is that battery chickens are kept in a
cage all their life with 3-4 other chickens and free range chickens are allowed
to run freely.
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