On 14th of February 2003 Animal Activism QLD investigated Doug Hall’s Pine Grove Piggery, Cecil Plains Rd, Milmerran. Evidence of illegally undersized stalls was recorded among other violations.
Evidence was recorded of single stalls measuring 1.85 metres by 0.53 and farrowing crates measuring 1.905 metres by 0.6510 metres that did not measure up to the standard size set down by the Code, there was a dead piglet in an undersized farrowing crate with mother and other piglets also the usual breech of inadequate fire fighting equipment.
Gatton University
Gatton University Piggery
At Gatton University intensive piggery evidence was recorded of undersized single stalls 2 metres by 0.55metres, inadequate fire fighting equipment and pigs without water.
These are all breaches of the Animal Care and Protection Act and RSPCA’s Five Freedoms which are widely accepted as a standard of animal welfare:
Freedom from:
• Hunger and thirst
• Discomfort
• Pain, injury or disease
• Fear and distress
• Freedom to express normal behaviours
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