In the evening a team from Animal Welfare Foundation and Eyes on Animals spotted several chicken trucks at a farm in Brabant. They were from a company that is known to bring spent hens and old-breeding birds for slaughter to Poland. As these birds are usually in a fragile condition, and the loading and transport of poultry is difficult to do without causing … [Read more...] about 14-15.05.2013 Trailing Van der Berg chicken truck from Holland to Polish slaughterhouse
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Brainstorming with chicken industry: welfare-friendlier transport crates
Since publishing our report "Cracks in the Crate", summarizing the routine violations taking place during the transport of poultry, a few people from the chicken industry in The Netherlands and Belgium expressed interest in improving the situation. Today we invited them to meet with us and a plastic company that produces poultry crates to brainstorm about how we could … [Read more...] about Brainstorming with chicken industry: welfare-friendlier transport crates
Trailing Bulgarian cattle truck to Serbian border
Tonight the EonA/AWF inspectors followed a long distance cattle truck from Bulgaria with the final destination Croatia. The truck stopped at the BIP (border inspection post) of Kalotina. On the truck there where 80 young bulls of different weight categories. Some compartments of the truck were clearly overcrowded. There was also not enough bedding, this was especially … [Read more...] about Trailing Bulgarian cattle truck to Serbian border
Inspection of cattle trucks at Bulgarian/Turkey border
Inspectors from AWF and EonA flew to Bulgaria yesterday. Considering that we will soon be giving a two-day training to the Bulgarian police and official veterinarians, we needed to check out the most current conditions for animals in transit there. Our team arrived early at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey this morning, to check on 5 trucks with Austrian pregnant … [Read more...] about Inspection of cattle trucks at Bulgarian/Turkey border
Inspection of Svilengrad control post, Bulgaria
Our team visited Svilengard control post, where many EU exporters and transporters claimed to have rested their EU animals in the past before crossing over into Turkey. In truth, this was not the case. During our earlier inspections at this border, EonA and AWF continued to see animals and trucks in filthy condition, it was clear the animals had regularly been … [Read more...] about Inspection of Svilengrad control post, Bulgaria