The story of Charlie the Chicken
Why did the chicken cross the road? It’s one of the universe’s eternal questions, even though it’s fairly rare to see a chicken anxiously loitering by a crosswalk. Let’s instead imagine a chicken in a vast shed crammed with other chickens.

The Life of a Chicken: From Birth to Death in Five Weeks
Diary of a ‘faster-growing’ chicken

Chickens are intelligent, sensitive animals who deserve  humane treatment
About 776 million chickens are raised for meat and eggs in Canada each year. Produced in factories like mere things, they live short, nightmarish lives. Do you know where your food comes from?

The Startling Intelligence of the Common Chicken
Few people think about the chicken as intelligent, however. In recent years, though, scientists have learned that this bird can be deceptive and cunning, that it possesses communication skills on par with those of some primates and that it uses sophisticated signals to convey its intentions.  Read more

Animal Corner – Chickens
Providing accurate and interesting information on animal species.

Chicken farming in Canada
Life of a broiler chicken in Canada

Humane Food – Chicken Raised for Meat
The average “broiler” chicken is raised inside a large industrial barn in groups of up to 50,000 birds. Chickens are housed in extremely crowded, barren buildings with automatic feeders and water stations. These birds have been genetically selected for very rapid growth.

Egg farming in Canada
Life of laying hens.  British Columbia has over three million laying hens on 145 farms. The average flock size in B.C. is 22,274 hens.

Winnipeg Humane Society – Canada’s Egg Industry
Over six billion male chicks are ground alive the day they hatch for global egg production.   83% of Canada’s laying hens continue to be housed in battery cages.

Humane Food – Laying Hens
More than 90 per cent of Canada’s 26 million egg-laying hens are confined to small, cramped “battery” cages with anywhere from four to ten other hens where they are unable to perform any of their natural behaviours such as stretching their wings, moving around, nesting, perching or dust bathing. Each bird has less space than a sheet of notebook paper.

Save the male chicks
The egg industry brutally grinds up billions of male chicks each year because they can’t lay eggs. But new tech could change that.

Many chickens’ tiny legs can’t support the weight of their giant breasts, leading to injuries that can be so severe that they struggle to walk to reach food and water, resulting in death by dehydration or starvation.