by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
The Green Party released its Animal Manifesto. In it, it promised to ban the use of cages to rear game birds.
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
Animal Aid investigators found pheasants fitted with beak shrouds leaping at the wire mesh (‘scalping’). There were dead birds in the cages, which were ‘enriched’ only with one piece of wood and a green ‘privacy’ curtain. Action: Animal Aid released details to the...
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
The RSPCA’s published policies include: ‘The RSPCA is opposed to the battery cage system, or variations of that system, for egg production in domestic fowl and gamebirds’.
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
Animal Aid investigators found a chick whose raw-looking head was devoid of any feathers, and another trapped under a water pipe. We also filmed: plastic sacks and floors crawling with maggots; vast quantities of eggs and dead new-born chicks spilling out of sacks and...
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
Owned (at that time) by Jonathan Crow, chairman of the trade body the Game Farmers’ Association (GFA). Animal Aid investigators found 20 occupied sheds with verandas, with dead and dying chicks in all 20 sheds. We found wheelie bins full of maggot-ridden adult birds,...