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- verb transitive To remove part of the
beak of achicken or otherbird to preventpecking in chicken farms.
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Examples
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When I was in high school, I was hired to debeak some chickens that were “floor birds”, in a very large barn loose without cages.
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So they debeak the chickens by using a sharp, heated blade to cut and cauterize at the same time.
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How was my comment incorrect if I said that they debeak egg chickens and your post verified that?
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Damn all who debeak chickens and all who eat them, damn
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Some game bird breeders even debeak the birds or attach "peepers" or googles to their eyes to keep them attacking each other in the packed pens. (see: caged hen egg operations.)
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I remember how shocked I was when I first learned that poultry ranches could use the term "free-range" even if they debeak their hens and stack cages one atop the other.
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