I bet that didn’t smell fresh after a few days.
How disgusting.
They’re kept, presumably, or at least I certainly hope they are, in cages/terrariums large enough for them to comfortably move around inside.
A chick in a bottle is rapidly going to grow to the point at which it can’t do that. And then, I expect, to the point at which it dies slowly because it doesn’t fit in the bottle at all. Breaking the bottle would be the only way to get it out and would be dangerous to the chick.
Oof, my sympathies to you! I grew up on farms and did a lot of literally shitty jobs, but that was the worst.
This egg laying operation (I don’t know how many hens they had, but these barns were extremely long) used a modified skid-steer to push the manure. I assume it had a shit protection roof unlike us that were manually moving the hens.
Thanks to the amazingness of Google Maps, I can tell you the barns are about 500’ long and there are 6 of them along with another 2 that are about 400’ long. They have more barns on another piece of nearby property but as far as I know, they weren’t that big back when I worked there (mid 80s).
On topic, if this has ever really been done, I wish all the bad karma on the “inventor”. Sounds like a very cruel thing to do to a living being.
Hence the expression “Jug not lest ye be jugged.”
Yeah, I’m hoping that it’s a myth, maybe some sort of misunderstanding of a container that could be opened; or that at worst it was a one-off.
There are people throughout Arkansas (and other parts of the country) that continue to make a living this way. They call them “growers” and they are paid so many cents a pound upon delivery of the pullets to the processing factory.
In the early 2000s, there was a shock site touting “bonsai kittens” using this exact method. So I suspect this is just a more recent re-run of the concept, designed to cause a reaction
Sorry - I missed it.