• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • EYES ON ANIMALS – Watching out for their Welfare
  • English
  • Nederlands

Eyes on Animals

Watching out for their Welfare

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
DONATE
  • About us
    • What we do
    • Our team
    • Key Figures
    • Contact
  • News
    • Latest news
    • Good news
    • Bad news
    • Subscribe to our newsletter
  • Inspections
    • Farms
    • Markets
    • Transports
    • Slaughterhouses
    • Special projects
    • Other
  • Training
    • Police
    • Truck drivers
    • Poultry-catchers
    • Slaughter personnel
    • Training Material
    • Request a training
  • Industry Tips
    • Animal transport
      • Cattle
      • Pigs
      • Poultry
    • Slaughterhouses
      • Cattle
      • Pigs
      • Poultry
      • Ritual slaughter
    • Educational videos
  • Publications
    • In the media
      • Print
      • Television
      • Radio
      • Videos
    • Newsletters
    • Special reports
    • Training Material
    • Annual reviews
  • Future Vision
  • Help us
Home » Our inspections » transport » Inspection of a livestock truck with new-born chicks

Inspection of a livestock truck with new-born chicks

March 31, 2009

chicken_2009

One of the surviving chicks, roughly a dozen died from the accident. While parked at a highway rest stop, Eyes on Animals investigators spot a truck with new-born “broiler” chicks loaded in cages. There are a dozen dead chicks and the cages are not stacked up properly but appear to have fallen. The driver explains to us that he forgot to attach a belt around the cages to prevent them from falling, and while driving someone tried to overtake him and he was obliged to apply the breaks very suddenly. As a result the cages went flying and many birds were injured. The surviving chicks that were seriously injured and suffering were killed by him by breaking their necks. Eyes on Animals will keep their eyes out on this problem and alert the police inspectors during our trainings to also check on the placement of belts on the transports of small animals in crates.

  • share 
  • tweet 
  • share 
  • save 
  • email 

Primary Sidebar

Featured

Eyes on Animals asks industry to take measures against cold stress

Eyes on Animals has sent a letter to Dutch organizations Vee&Logistiek (representing animal … [Read More...] about Eyes on Animals asks industry to take measures against cold stress

Animal Welfare Animation

Positive Development in Better Monitoring Animal Handling in Slaughterhouses – AI Camera Surveillance

Deloitte, together with Eyes on Animals, the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals (de … [Read More...] about Positive Development in Better Monitoring Animal Handling in Slaughterhouses – AI Camera Surveillance

Featured

The Forgotten Ones video play buttonNew film by Eyes on Animals, with the support of several international animal-welfare organizations, about the forgotten victims of virus outbreaks.

Search

Our most recent newsletter

Dear friends,

Great news! All of our efforts over the past seven years at stimulating a real change within the dairy industry are starting to pay off. This past week we held a conference with Dutch dairy farmers that keep their calves with their mothers about creating a “calf with mother” label for their dairy and meat…

Read more…

Subscribe to our newsletter

ANBI

Footer

Donate with Paypal

Paypal Eyes on Animals
One-time donation:
Monthly donation:

Reading Material

  • In the Media
  • Newsletters
  • Special EonA reports
  • Legislative texts
  • ANBI

Our Amsterdam Office

Amsterdam House Hotel
Eyes on Animals main office is in downtown Amsterdam, at the Amsterdam House Hotel. The generous and warm-hearted hotel owner donated to Eyes on Animals, free of charge, a beautiful room where our inspectors can work, hold meetings and store their material.

Copyright © 2021 · Eyes on Animals | Website by Webkompaan