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A dead hen that has been removed from a battery cage lies on the floor of an intensive egg-production farm. Hen deaths from heat exhaustion are a regular occurrence during the summer months when temperatures typically soar beyond 40-42°C.
A hen living inside a battery cage on an intensive egg-production farm drinks from a water dispenser inside the cage she shares with several other hens. She must use her beak to apply pressure to the dispenser to make the water flow.
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).