A devastated Kent farmer has accused animal rights activists of killing thousands of pheasant chicks.
Eloise McDonald, 23, said activists stormed her small family game farm in Ashford last month and let out thousands of chicks.
She woke to find hundreds of chicks gasping for water and starving after the raiders cut through fencing and gas pipes. Around 3,000 birds are estimated to have perished, The Times reported.
Ms McDonald wrote on Facebook: "Some lowlife scumbag so-called 'animal lovers' let out 20,000 of my birds, cut all the fencing, cut gas pipes, hundreds of week-old birds dead, gasping for water and starving!"
Her cousin, Andrew Farris, who manages the farm, told the Fieldsports Channel that although they had found about 80% of the birds, a repeat incident could finish their business.
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) has claimed claimed responsibility for the raid on its website.
It said: "We hit a game farm in the South East UK breeding pheasants for the shooting industry. We've heard that 9,000 birds managed to escape.
"It was quite an easy job, we simply cut through the netting with scissors and knives and rolled it to avoid birds getting tangled up in it. Then we entered the pens and made them fly off.
We are meant to conclude that this was a great blow for all that is good and holy, eeeevile farmers growing birds just so that eeeeevile hunters can SHOOT at them! The horror! So much better for the birds to die of thirst.
Someone's been mainlining dumbassamine again.
ReplyDeleteOh my God, the fucking stupidity! These imbeciles actually think they did a -good- thing letting week-old birds out of their enclosure. The place where the food and water is, and where there are no cats, no hawks, etc.
ReplyDeleteYes, the little birds will be pampered their entire little lives, eventually dying and getting eaten like every other pheasant that ever existed except by a human instead of another animal. Unless some hipster dickhead comes and kills them early.
Those wonderful, fine, upstanding heroes in ALF. Came very close to burning a childhood friend of mine and his wife/infant daughter to death when they set fire to the entrance to their apartment on fire. Did I mention that there was only one accessible entrance to their home. I do so hope to meet up with those ALF heroes one day.
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