A chicken checks out a visitor in the chicken barn at Bowden's Egg Farm in Waldoboro. Owner Dennis Bowden switched to a cage-free operation with 3,000 hens.
Newly gathered eggs sit in baskets in a doorway of a chicken barn at Bowden's Egg Farm in Waldoboro. The farm switched over to free range chickens a few years ago.
Farmer Dennis Bowden was 65 when his cages needed updating so he decided to scale back his egg production and switch to a cage free operation with 3,000 hens.
Dennis Bowden walks through the room that used to house 33,000 laying hens. Bowden is dismantling the cages to use the room for storage for freight forwarding he does for the islands of North Haven and Islesboro.
Some of the 3,000 chickens at Bowden's Egg Farm move around their home in Waldoboro.
A chicken jumps off an egg box as Seth Lawler gathers eggs out of the box at Bowden's Egg Farm.
Eggs are ready for delivery in a refrigerated storage room at Bowden's Egg Farm.
Ashley Zaccadelli collects eggs in a cage-free chicken barn at Bowden's Egg Farm in Waldoboro.
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