A life of pain, frustration and terror - from birth to death.

A baby chick, destined for life as a layer in a battery shed, is scarcely out of its egg shell, when the horror begins.  Boy chicks are immediately killed either by suffocation or drowning.

Within an hour or two of hatching, the girl chicks will have their inner toe on each foot cut off with a pair of scissors. (This will lessen the damage they do when they they?re adult and have to clamber over each other in the battery cage to get the food in front)

At 10 days, the chicks are in for their next mutilation.  They are debeaked - an operation whereby a red hot blade sears off the end of their beaks. (Once again this operation helps to lessen the damage they do when they're adult and, having nothing else to peck at in the battery cage, start pecking at each other).

Scientific research in Scotland has proved that debeaking leads to the development of neuromas which can cause life-long pain similar to the pain felt by human amputees).

At about 18 weeks of age, the young pullets, aljost ready to start lying, are transferred from the shed floor into the battery cages, is less than an A4 sheet of paper. And there she will remain for life, unable to fulfill any of her natural instincts such as bathing, dust-bathing, foraging, perching or laying her eggs in a nest.  She's not even able to stretch her wings.

Some 300 eggs later, she will be hauled from the battery cage, shoved into a crate and will be sold live to a 'cull' outlet.  From there, a hawker will transport her into an informal settlement where her misery will, at last, come to an end, hopefully with a sharp knife.