Mon 02 December 2019:
About 180,000 chickens on a farm that reportedly supplies Tegel chicken died of suffocation on the weekend after a power cut.
The Ministry for Primary Industries director of compliance Gary Orr said a “large number” of chickens had died at the farm in Helensville, west Auckland.
“After being alerted to this issue today, and having spoken to the company involved, we have had it confirmed that there was an incident in the early hours of Saturday morning at a chicken farm in Helensville that resulted in the deaths of a large number of chickens due to a power failure and a subsequent generator issue,” Orr said.
Stuff reported air had stopped pumping into the sheds after a backup generator failed during the power cut. An alarm also failed to sound, and early in the morning an employee found about 180,000 dead chickens.
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