by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
Animal Aid investigators found stressed pheasants in poor physical condition. The raised units they were kept in had minimal enrichment – there were no nest boxes or areas for dust bathing.
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
Animal Aid investigators filmed partridges in barren cages. Action: On 15 June 2015, Animal Aid reported conditions at these two farms to the Defra Minister, Liz Truss. We received a response from Minister George Eustice on 24 June, in which he said that he had asked...
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...
