Also, just to be clear I’m sure many places are horrible. I’m just talking about one that I recently went to.

No, my wife’s childhood friend runs a small farm with her husband and kid.

It’s a farm.

There are sheep and chickens. A dog to help with the sheep.

They aren’t rich. The chickens are not abused as far as I could tell. They are egg laying chickens. At some point they don’t lay eggs well and then they get sold. There is no retirement plan for old hens.

even if we completely disregard the possibility of not producing so many eggs (reduced consumption of meat and eggs to start with) tech is moving forward. There are more and more reliable ways of determining if the chick will be male by physical and spectroscopic assays so you can determine the gender within a week of hatching and at least dispose of the egg (nervous system seems to develop after this period).