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Chicken farmer Craig Watts looks at his hand after euthanizing an injured bird at C&A Farms in Fairmont, North Carolina June 10, 2014. More than 120,000 mid-flock chickens are being grown for slaughter in cramped confines and almost constant darkness. When the chicks arrived from a Perdue Farms hatchery three weeks ago, scores had deformed legs and missing eyes -- indicators that some were already in poor health. Watts, a contract grower for Perdue, spends his mornings separating and removing dead and sick birds from the flock. An estimated 3,000 birds will die by the end of this flock's six week growing period. Picture taken June 10, 2014. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)

Chicken farmer Craig Watts looks at his hand after euthanizing an injured bird at C&A Farms in Fairmont, North Carolina June 10, 2014. More than 120,000 mid-flock chickens are being grown for slaughter in cramped confines and almost constant darkness. When the chicks arrived from a Perdue Farms hatchery three weeks ago, scores had deformed legs and missing eyes -- indicators that some were already in poor health. Watts, a contract grower for Perdue, spends his mornings separating and removing dead and sick birds from the flock. An estimated 3,000 birds will die by the end of this flock's six week growing period. Picture taken June 10, 2014. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)