COK Exposes Maryland Egg Industry

Photo Gallery - County Fair Farms: Intensive Confinement

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Tens of thousands of hens are crammed into tiny wire cages.		In each shed, cages are stacked four tiers high.		These birds cannot flap their wings, nest, perch, dust bathe, or forage.
There are no laws protecting them on the farm.		Egg-laying hens spend their entire lives intensively confined.		Up to eight birds are crammed into a single wire cage.
Many suffer from severe feather loss.		Fecal matter from upper cages frequently falls to the cages below.