More than 27,000 chickens died at a farm in Nottinghamshire in a ventilation failure, described by a judge as a 'disaster', which caused the birds to overheat and bake to death. The company managing the poultry farm in Colston Bassett has been fined £44,000.
Leicestershire County Council's Trading Standards Service prosecuted Hudson & Sanders Limited over the deaths caused by a computer malfunction in a broiler shed ventilation system. According to Leicestershire Live, the company pleaded guilty to four charges under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
The pleas were entered at a hearing at Leicester Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (April 27). Some 50,000 chickens were being kept in a large shed at Hose Lodge Farm in Colston Bassett when, on May 26, 2020, the systems that regulated air flow, vital for the welfare of the chickens, failed.
