She adjusts. She tucks. She covers every one of them. No one taught her this. In the egg industry, she never meets her chicks. Her eggs go to a hatchery. She never feels them underneath her. This hen does.

This is a county fair in Lancaster County, PA. Open to the public. She's on the floor of a cage. Panting. Eyes closed. Other hens stepping on her. Every week hens arrive alive and die before they're sold. You're looking at her right now. That's more than anyone there did. #eggtruth

💰️ advice from a 🐓 → She eats her own 🥚 to reclaim the calcium each shell cost her → Her ancestor laid 12 eggs/year. She's bred to lay 300+ → Retirement? She gets 18 months. She's not laying eggs. She's spending herself. Part 1 of a series → buff.ly/vC1pbw7 #eggtruth

After our last post, hundreds of people said "my hens are happy — what's the harm?" Here's what they weren't told. An #eggtruth 🧵

Yesterday: Day 1 → Day 500 of a hen in the egg industry. It broke people. This week: Day 500 with a different ending. Same age. Same 300 eggs. But someone got her out. She's dust-bathing now. She remembered how. Every hen could be her. #eggtruth

Day 1: a chick. Day 500: the same hen. She's 18 months old. 300 eggs took everything. Then she's slaughtered and replaced with a new Day 1. This is what your eggs cost. #eggtruth

Most egg-laying hens never see sunlight. Mississippi was one of them. Now she's at Liberation Sanctuary, dust-bathing in the sun for the first time. This is what happens when someone decides a hen is worth more than her output. 🎥 Liberation Sanctuary

"She lays them anyway. She doesn't need them." This is the most common justification for eating backyard eggs. Here's what's actually happening inside her body. 🧵

He was built to protect, to provide, to lead. Not to be killed. Not to be caged. Not to be thrown away. Thing you didn't know about roosters 👉️ buff.ly/F09GAY8 #eggtruth

Did you know hens are fierce and protective mothers? All the facts 👉️ buff.ly/nX0bZrO Share this to spread the love during Respect for Chickens Month. #eggtruth

This is Frau Glücksklee 🍀 First clip: the day she was rescued from a cage-free egg farm. Second clip: five months later. Loved and cared for. Same hen. She's safe now. The egg industry did this to her. Going egg-free makes sure it doesn't happen to the next one. #eggtruth

An industrial plant (aka hatchery) is not a place for a baby! Share if you agree. #eggtruth

Hens purr. Just like cats. When they feel safe. Most people have never heard it. Most hens never get to make this sound. #eggtruth

This is the first day of a hen kept for eggs. Handled by human hands, stored in plastic trays. They will never go outside or touch the ground. #eggtruth

💕 A rooster will stand guard while a hen lays. He watches for danger so she doesn't have to. In the egg industry, he's killed on his first day of life. He never gets to be this 👉️ buff.ly/08drlCj #eggtruth

You call someone a "mother hen" when they're protective, fierce, caring. In the egg industry, the real mother hen never meets her chicks. Her eggs are taken. Her sons are killed on day one. This Mother's Day — honour the mothers who never got to be one. #eggtruth #mothersday

This is free-range 👇 #eggtruth

A hen lays 300 eggs a year. Her wild ancestor laid 12. Each egg drains 10% of her total skeletal calcium. Her body breaks down to build the shell. She needs every egg her body makes. You don't need a single one. #eggtruth Thread 🧵

Two chicks. Same hatchery. Same day. One is female. One is male. Only one leaves alive. Over 300 million male chicks are killed every year in the US. On their first day of life. Every egg system. Cage. Cage-free. Organic. She survived. Her brother didn't. #eggtruth

She'd never felt grass before. A little wobbly. A little unsure. But she lifted her face to the sun anyway. She was someone before she was something. Now she gets to just... be. Help all hens feel the sun again. Leave eggs off your plate. #eggtruth

Count the eggs. This is an x-ray of a hen with eggs that can no longer pass through. Infected. Fatal. Her ancestor laid 12/year. The industry bred her to lay 300+. Larger. Cheaper. Her body paid the price. This is what a $3 carton costs. You just never see the receipt.

An egg takes 26 hours to make. The hen that made it gets 67 square inches to live in. That's smaller than a sheet of paper. An #eggtruth thread 🧵

She sings to her chicks before they hatch. They chirp back through the shell. 🐣 In hatcheries, nobody answers. #eggtruth

She lived 18 months unable to spread her wings. That's not a horror story. That's an egg carton. She's safe now — rescued by @happilyheiferafter. But for every hen like her, millions more are still in that cage right now. What are we willing to call normal? #eggtruth

She's standing on a rail because there's no floor space left. This is a "colony cage". The egg industry's answer to the backlash against battery cages. Same birds. Same density. New name. What exactly were we supposed to feel better about? #eggtruth

Chickens recognize over 100 individual faces. They dream. They grieve. The egg industry calls them "layers." 🧵👇

I stopped eating meat for the animals. Took me two more years to apply that same logic to eggs. Here's what I didn't know 👇

Today I stood outside a slaughterhouse in the Netherlands and watched 50,000 laying hens arrive to be gassed. Not sick. Not injured. Just no longer profitable to the egg industry. This happens every single day. #eggtruth 📹 @bartstaassen with @animalsavenederland

🐓 Nobody tells you a laying hen's body is slowly destroying itself to lay. Her bones leach calcium to form egg shells. Her reproductive system runs nonstop, because she was bred to lay 300+ eggs a year instead of 12. By 18 months, she's spent. #eggtruth

I got backyard chickens to escape factory farming. I made it worse. A thread about what thousands of chicken keepers are saying on Reddit — when no one is watching. 🧵

🕊️ Freedom shouldn’t come this late. This hen escaped her cage, but she couldn’t escape the toll of the egg industry. Selective breeding for high egg yields leaves these birds physically depleted, bone-tired, and broken. #eggtruth

🐓 She wants you to see her suffering. This is what egg farming really looks like. 👇 🔄 Please share to help share her story. #eggtruth

🐣 Because male chicks lack "commercial value," billions are culled globally every year on their very first day of life. 👉 Help us expose the hidden side of the egg industry by sharing this video. #eggtruth

🐣 Easter chicks, egg decorating, and school hatching projects all hide the same cruelty. An #eggtruth thread👇

🐣 Behind the festive imagery lies a harsh reality: many of these practices inflict cruelty on some of the most vulnerable creatures: chickens and baby chicks. 👇 buff.ly/3Ay7hBR

🐣 Easter joy shouldn’t cost a life. We’ve been told eggs are a harmless tradition. The truth? They’re the product of a system that views living beings as disposable commodities. Make the switch this season. Leave chicken out of your basket ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🐓 Trapped in a metal cage. No space, no sunlight, no life. The egg industry is hiding in plain sight. We can choose plants. Hens deserve better. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🚨 THE FREE RANGE MYTH Certified. Assured. Award-winning. And still this. Undercover investigation into a free range egg farm reveals: 🐔 Severe overcrowding 🐔 Feather loss & injuries 🐔 Dead hens left among the living Please, eggs off our plates. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🐤 She just hatched. 🔥 The tip of her beak burned off with a hot blade. No pain relief. It's called "debeaking" — and it's standard practice in every type of egg farming. Her beak has more nerve endings than human fingertips. Is their suffering worth the eggs? #eggtruth

After years of animal advocacy, brands pledged, countries banned battery cages, and restaurants rebranded. Cage-free became the feel-good upgrade. But feel-good for whom? An #eggtruth thread 👇

👍 Most people believe that eating eggs is a harmless choice for animals. 🫣 The reality inside industrial hatcheries tells a much different story. Share this video to spread awareness about factory farming and help others see the truth behind the carton. #eggtruth

🐓 The egg industry wants you to see the carton, not the corpse. She spent her final moments in a wire cage, exhausted and forgotten. Every egg comes with a side of systemic cruelty and death. Choose compassion instead. Choose plant-based. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🐣 "Free-range." "Organic." "Humane." None of those labels saved him. Every male chick born into the egg industry is killed within hours, because he can't lay eggs, he's considered worthless. You can help end this cruelty: leave eggs off your plate ❌🥚 #eggtruth

The final hours of a laying hen’s life are marked by catching, crating, transport, and slaughter, yet this phase has shockingly weak legal protection. "The Hidden Stages of Egg Production: Depopulation" - an #eggtruth thread 👇

This hen didn't make it to the slaughterhouse. 😢 The egg industry traps hens in endless suffering—caged or cage-free. After 18 months of non-stop laying, ALL are replaced and killed. Help end this cruelty. Ditch eggs ❌🥚 #eggtruth

🐓 This hen lives on a cage-free egg farm. Is that what you imagined when you paid extra for the label? Here's the truth 👉️ buff.ly/cDYufb5 #eggtruth

🐓 You pay extra for "cage-free" because you care. But DYK the egg industry's loophole? Hens spend 16-20 weeks as pullets on rearing farms—often in wire cages or crowded aviaries. No outdoors. Stop funding the lie. Ditch eggs ❌🥚 #eggtruth

🐓 DYK: At any given moment, there are over 23 billion chickens on Earth, far surpassing the population of any other land animal. 👉️ buff.ly/YVzWjnr What if they would start to fight back? #eggtruth via @/menkay.ig

🐥 Born in a cage. 🐓 Die in a cage. 🐔 Never see the sun. Chickens in the egg industry spend every moment locked away, never feeling grass under their claws or the warmth of the sun on their backs. Help stop this cruelty by ditching eggs. ❌ 🥚 #eggtruth

🐥 PULLETS, the teenage hens whose suffering never makes it onto the carton. Part 3️⃣ of our series on the invisible stages of egg production - an #eggtruth thread 👇