The problem with that is factory farming is very efficient and keeps the costs down. Free range chicken is great but if that’s all there was then chicken would be $20 a pound and many wouldn’t be able to afford it.
We should find technological ways to keep some chicken’s crap off of the others but they are pretty stupid and unsanitary and will eat poo. Even chickens I have here at home peck at other animal poo—like goat, horse, dog, and I’ve even seen them dig up the cat’s outdoor area and peck at the cat poo. They don’t finish it ever so I assume they are going after the bugs, but then they are eating bugs that just dined on poo...
A generation or two ago, it was common knowledge that, if you fed cattle, your pigs and chickens would eat for free.
***We should find technological ways to keep some chicken’s crap off of the others but they are pretty stupid and unsanitary and will eat poo.****
I’ve never heard of chickens being raised where they could crap on each other. Here, they are floor raised in long houses of approximately 40,000 and there are rules on how many square feet of space they are allowed. They are NOT caged or crowded.
When they are the proper size, men come in and catch them, placing a certain number in each small cage, then they are hauled to the processing plant.