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,...
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
Farm owned by the Game Farmers’ Association Head of Welfare, Paul Jeavons. Animal Aid investigators found many dead and mortally injured chicks. Action: (as above) Animal Aid requested a meeting with Defra Ministers Richard Benyon and Caroline Spelman to discuss our...
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
One of the first decisions made by the new Coalition government was to scrap the proposed ban on battery cages for pheasants and partridges that had been announced just weeks before. More info: https://www.animalaid.org.uk/pandering-shooting-industry/...
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
Defra announced a new Code of Practice that would effectively ban the use of battery cages for pheasants and partridges. This decision would be reversed by the new government after the May 2010 general election. More information:...
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
Animal Aid investigators filmed at four producers where scores of thousands of pheasants and partridges were confined in battery cages. (Bettws Hall in Powys, Heart of England in Warwickshire, Hy-Fly in Lancashire and Pye Hall in Suffolk.) The birds in the cages...
by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation announced its support for a ban on the use of battery cages. More information:...
