My Chicken Diaries
 

 

Pictured above:  Indira, Dark Aseel (or Asil) hen. 
Although she looks quite menacing, she's not. 
She is a excellent and vigilant mother, and a very broody hen,
meaning she frequently sits on a nest or clutch of eggs with the intent of hatching them. 

She has never been a caged hen.  
Daily she searches anywhere on our 3 acres
for bugs and other wonderful morsels. 


          

NUMBERS TO KNOW

72 SQ. INCHES
     the average space a laying hen needs to stand erect

291 SQ. INCHES
     the average space a laying hen needs to flap her wings

67 SQ. INCHES
     the amount of space in which a battery hen lives

291 MILLION
     the number of hens suffering in battery cages in the U.S. today

95%
     the portion of eggs sold in the U.S. that are layed by caged hens

 

source: EggIndustry.com