Meet Dinah

My Story

This is Dinah. She saw the vet yesterday and received a beak trim and overall health check.

When chicks are hatched for production birds, some asshole, pardon me, chicken farmer, uses some sort of snipping tool and chops off the end of the upper beak on the hens. Production birds live in a tiny crammed area with many others. Instead of providing room to turn around, or outdoor space, or ventilation, the solution is to buck off the pointy end of the beak. This is so that as these birds that endure this high stress environment, they can do less physical damage to each other. Its brutal. The pressure put on the beak to snap it off often causes misalignment between the top and bottom beaks, which then are not naturally ground down through regular chicken behavior as nature intended. The result? What you see here.

Red is loving her new life!