Lehnertz Chicken Farm, Rhineland-Palatinate Live Cam

Hundreds of hens move through the covered wintergarten of the Lehnertz poultry farm in the Eifel hills of Germany. Open sides let daylight in, and the range outside the building is visible through the gaps.

The farm is at Habscheid, in Rhineland-Palatinate, close to the Belgian and Luxembourg borders. It runs free-range laying hens, and the eggs are sold locally as Eifel eggs.

A wintergarten of this kind is a roofed, open-sided extension that gives the flock outdoor air and shelter at once, and German free-range rules require access to the open range beyond it. Movement on the webcam follows the daylight, with the birds thickest around the feeders in the morning.