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A woman poultry worker in an orange high-visibility shirt and face mask tends to newly hatched chicks in a modern hatchery facility in Tasmania. Hundreds of fluffy yellow chicks emerge from their eggs, scattered across metal trays on the floor of the industrial incubation room. The large-scale farming operation showcases the scale of commercial poultry production, with the worker carefully managing the hatching process among the large incubation units. Fresh eggshells litter the floor as the chicks take their first steps in this controlled agricultural environment.