Images tagged "heavy-breathing"

A hen stands with a gaping open mouth inside a battery cage as she pants in the summer heat on an Indian egg-production farm. Like all birds, hens do not sweat and must pant to cool down, and their open mouths are their natural response to feeling too warm. During the summer, the outside temperatures here routinely surpass 40°C.
Five to six egg-laying hens with pale and drooping combs, dirty feathers and patches of bare skin are kept in small battery cages of about three by two feet on an intensive egg-production farm even as the outside temperatures reach 42°C (107°F).