1800 day old chicks dumped

[llamedos]

In a field in Peterborough

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/pipe/1174179/1800-newly-hatched-chicks-found-abandoned-in-field/

 

[Frodo2]

This is a really strange story. So many chicks are euthanised routinely there would appear to be no point.

 

[neilo]

I heard that on the radio yesterday. I did wonder if they'd been 'freed' by some activist group, not that anyone will be likely to own up to it now.

Any commercial hatchery would have the facilities to dispose of them humanely, even if orders had fallen through for whatever reason.

 

[llamedos]

I heard that on the radio yesterday. I did wonder if they'd been 'freed' by some activist group, not that anyone will be likely to own up to it now.

Any commercial hatchery would have the facilities to dispose of them humanely, even if orders had fallen through for whatever reason.

My first thought when I read it.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

If it was some animal rights activists, did they honestly expect them to fend for themselves when dumped like that the sparrow hawk would be the only benefactor

 

[HolzKopf]

Also strange that none of the press reports I've seen mention AI? Could be a 'can't cope' issue but can't believe any producer with integrity would stoop to that.

HK

 

[llamedos]

How many in a crate when delivering, could they have fallen off a load? Mind, no mention of crates in the various articles, but that could be selective reporting.

 

[Surgery]

Could have been in some kind of incubator that's been nicked ?

 

[7610 super q]

Not sure what chicks are transported in, but the stillages used for larger birds are a bloody nightmare. Drive over a something the size of a pea with a Moffet, and the draws fall out. Hens running around everywhere.

 

[Philip Watkins]

How many in a crate when delivering, could they have fallen off a load? Mind, no mention of crates in the various articles, but that could be selective reporting.

Chicks are in trays of 100 stacked about 10 high on a wheelie stillage. It's a long time since I helped tip any so could be out on numbers.

 

[wellingtonfarmer]

I wonder if it was a lorry driver that forgot to get a crate off during a delivery or something, panicked about taking them back to depo

 

[llamedos]

Just read another report in DT and is sounds as if they were sold by the hatchery and then dumped. How cruel.

 

[MarcFloyd]

Local foxes must have thought that Christmas came early.

 

[Netherfield]

Looks to me like they were cockerels, and then someone changed their minds, I dare bet that females will cost £1 each these days , so that's a fair bit to lose if they are.

I'm assuming they are a egg laying breed and not for meat.

 

[Dry Rot]

Someone bought a load for feeding to raptors or reptiles but didn't expect them to be alive?

Or an opportunist thief stole more than he bargained for off the back of a lorry?

 

[Gong Farmer]

Probably advertised as ' a lorry load of gorgeous chicks' and some would-be romeo was very disappointed.

 

[Morph]

approx 125 to a tray .

 

[topground]

Going 'cheep' ?

 

[JohnGalway]

Awful thing to do to those tiny critters.

 

[Paddington]

The article quotes "The breeder came to the scene to collect the surviving birds and take them back to their unit", which assumes the RSPCA know where they came from and could therefore trace the carrier .