The picture you see to the left is a 30,000 bird-space chicken house. These chickens houses are large, dusty, and very stinky not to mention. This is how the chicken you buy from the store is raise. Cooped up in a barn wear they are set to eat, drink, and poop all over for the next 60 days. These birds are literally living in their own fecal matter, and some even live in the prior fecal matter of the birds from the last turn! They are cleaned every other turn from time to time. Some require cleaning every turn.
If you have ever kept chickens in a confined space before then you know that their manure can pile up rather quickly... I have personally been in chicken confinements like this and I will say first hand that it is not right. Every time you walk into the barn you'd better expect to see a dead chicken or 2 dead and mashed into the ground because of all of the other chickens walking over the carcass so much. And at the end of every 60 days turn the manure is so fowl at the bottom that mold has build up all over it. The dust inside is so terrible that I refuse to go in without a mask anymore because of what the future health risks are due to the environment. It's not only bad for the chickens... but it's also bad for us! And not just in the barn either.
When the birds goto the massive slaughter houses they are sometimes not cleaned properly. They are dropped on the floor from the assembly line and often when this happens workers just put the chicken right back on the assembly line and let it continue down the line. Even though the washing cycles are already over and it is on its way to packaging. This is a big problem we are having in massive slaughter houses today!
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