I was motivated to write the post below on social media in response to the emotional response by other farmers in the Farm the Kootenays FB group to a local egg producer's methods.

Seriously. Because my chickens see the sun and eat bugs, it somehow undoes the fact I'm going to kill them and eat them (or feed them to dogs, or whatever) when they are done being useful to me?

What exactly is farm doing wrong here? My preferred dispatch method for hens, cervical dislocation, isn't a whole lot different from the chickens point of view. From this distance those hens don't look starved to me, despite the original poster(OP) implying that this producer could be doing so.

The ONLY real difference to me is that the mental and physical exhaustion of killing something else is not offloaded to someone else to bear. I get to own that in my own personal way when the blood is literally on my hands.

What I see in the video isn't much different than Melissa Reanne's description of their families beautiful ritual a couple comments above. I see a whole family engaged in feeding their own family and a great many others in the best way they know how. I see young kids engaged in the less savoury or romantic aspects of farming (at any size), which I believe imparts an important rural value: 

That the success of our farm often comes at the sacrifice of other living things.

At least, that is what I feel like my Grandma and Grandpa were trying to teach me when I was a kid and I had to help butcher many freezers worth of chickens for our family. Maybe she just needed the free labour.

We live in market economy, if there wasn't a need for cheap protein to fill the belllies of poor people then these farms wouldn't exist but conversely if we hadn't demanded better treatment for confined feeding operations most layers would be still cage bound and subject to survival by their own capacity (but what is living longer in that miserable environment). When the marginal productivity of a free-range barn hits a certain point all they can do is retire all of them. Three waste trucks worth, it looks like.

Over my life I've got enough direct farm butchering experience to fill half of one of those trucks, I'd guess. At what point does that turn me into a murderous animal killer in the eyes of the OP? 

As long as this agricultural business (a stretch to call it a farm) is operating within existing animal welfare best practices, then these animals weren't mistreated. Healthy animals are in a producers best interests when 1 sick animal can mean a loss of one of those entire barns.

If you don't like the above definitions of free-range, or the fact we need cheap food to feed poor people please don't take it up with food producers, go talk to your MLA, your MP, and spend as much of your hard earned money as you can on food grown by people you might run into going for a nice long walk.