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Transport company Blom en Zonen expose poultry to freezing cold winds

January 25, 2016

No protection from cold wind

On the 14th of January, a concerned-person driving along the A2 highway in the Netherlands filmed a poultry truck from the company Blom en Zonen on its way to a slaughterhouse. Click HERE to watch the footage. It was 3 degrees Celcius out and with the vehicle moving, conditions were made even colder for the poultry on board, being exposed to freezing winds. According to … [Read more...] about Transport company Blom en Zonen expose poultry to freezing cold winds

Practicing catching and loading hens in a gentle and upright manner

November 11, 2015

Loading chickens

Spent laying hens are often caught and loaded in a brutal manner. This is not necessarily because chicken-catchers are mean people, but rather because the birds are worth very little at the end of their "productive life" and thus the slaughter industry and supermarkets put enormous pressure to keep costs low. Chicken-catchers are forced to catch and load birds at extreme … [Read more...] about Practicing catching and loading hens in a gentle and upright manner

Meeting with poultry organization Nepluvi to improve welfare during loading

August 26, 2015

Meeting with Nepluvi

Today we met with Nepluvi, the Dutch organization representing the interests of the poultry industry. We showed them footage taken during our numerous inspections of how rough spent- hens are handled during catching and loading. We also discussed an educative brochure we made on how the handling of birds can be improved on. Nepluvi is planning, together with chicken … [Read more...] about Meeting with poultry organization Nepluvi to improve welfare during loading

Transport inspection of Dutch spent hens to Poland

June 23, 2015

Trailing chicken transport

Tonight while conducting random inspections, we spotted 2 poultry trucks parked beside an egg farm in Dreumel, the Netherlands. We want to check on the welfare of the birds during catching and loading and ask the farmer for permission to enter, which he accepts. The spent-hens are caught manually by a chicken-catching crew. 3-4 hens at a time are grabbed by their legs and … [Read more...] about Transport inspection of Dutch spent hens to Poland

New poultry-transport crate design

May 17, 2014

At the request of EonA and several Dutch poultry transport companies, a manufacturer of plastic products has made a new poultry transport crate that better satisfies the European requirements. The new crate has a door on the side so that there is now access to the birds in at least the outer columns on the truck. During loading and transport poultry can unfortunately … [Read more...] about New poultry-transport crate design

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