What is the difference between intensive and free range farming?

Farming, why is battery farming more energy efficient than free range farming?

• Farming, why is battery farming more energy efficient than free range farming?

• Answer:

  Confinement (battery) farming makes efficient use of space, more animals per square foot output. The environment is also control in confinement farming with temperatures, humidity, and airflow kept at optimum levels to gain the fastest and produce the most livestock with the minimum amount of investment per chicken. They can produce more generations and more animals per space than free range farming can. Free range farming is subject to slowdowns in growth due to season that are too hot, too cold, too rainy etc for optimum feed consumption. Airflow is not a problem. Mortality is higher in free range farming with animals exposed to wildlife predators, inconsistant environments, and weather.