by gamebirds_admin | Oct 14, 2018 | Timeline
Animal Aid investigators found rooks left in cage traps without water or a perch. One bird was injured. We also found a pheasant in a cage trap and a male pheasant shot outside of the permitted season. Action: Animal Aid reported the breaches to the police on 5 June...
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 13, 2018 | Timeline
Our investigators examined 20 pheasant cages and found 18 of them were barren. Of the other two ‘enriched’ cages, one had a green ‘privacy’ curtain; the other contained a single brick. Inside one of the cages, a bird lay dead. A dunnock was trapped Inside a cage trap...
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 13, 2018 | Timeline
Our investigators found all the cages inspected were barren, in contravention of the Code of Practice. Several of the female pheasants had escaped the cages and all still had beak shrouds fitted. There was a ‘catching up’ trap in the field with about 10 birds inside,...
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 13, 2018 | Timeline
Our investigators found long-dead partridges left on top of the cages in breach of the Animal By-Products Regulations, and live birds kept inside barren cages in breach of the Code of Practice. Our digital thermometer recorded temperatures as low as -4.9C and showed...
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
The Labour Party released details of an Animal Welfare Plan, which it intends to make policy. A proposed ban on the intensive rearing of pheasants, partridges and other game birds was included.
