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 media to coincide with a poll on the use of cages.
More information
https://www.animalaid.org.uk/new-poll-reveals-overwhelming-opposition-battery-cages-game-birds/