By Alison Bevege For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 10:32 BST, 17 June 2019 | Updated: 10:32 BST, 17 June 2019
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Shocking scenes of animal cruelty have been revealed in secret recordings leaked by a whistleblower at one of Australia's largest egg producers.
Animal rights group Animal Liberation released the footage on Monday as part of a film about the gas culling of egg-layer chickens at the end of their useful life.
The footage shows one worker kicking and stomping on a chicken.
Birds are picked up and slammed forcefully on the hard concrete floor several times by different men in the footage - some of whom appear to be callously maiming the birds for fun.
One worker throws a chicken into the air and bats it across the room with his hand while another tries to drop kick a defenceless bird.
Another worker breaks a chicken's neck while laughing about it as he shows off to his colleagues.
A worker complains after a colleague broke a chicken's neck and laughed as it floundered
'I hate it when their heads come off,' one worker can be heard saying on the video.
'Yeah it feels good, look,' the other worker replies.
He then breaks the chicken's neck, throws it on the ground and laughs as its body jerks across the floor in fits.
'Oh you're cruel,' the other worker says.
'Oh what are you doing pulling its f***ing head off for?' another worker complains.
The video shows at least half a dozen workers cruelly mistreating chickens at
