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L214 investigation shows animals in agony on game farm for hunting

2020-09-23T21:32:03.398Z


A breeding in Deux-Sèvres is questioned by the animal defense association.It's a shocking new investigation, as she is used to now. This time, the animal rights association L214 unveils the images of a farm belonging to the Gibovendée company. This company is the European leader in the field of game farming (pheasants, partridges) intended for hunting, explains L214. In this activity unknown to the general public, animals - after the breeding phase - are released a few


It's a shocking new investigation, as she is used to now.

This time, the animal rights association L214 unveils the images of a farm belonging to the Gibovendée company.

This company is the European leader in the field of game farming (pheasants, partridges) intended for hunting, explains L214.

In this activity unknown to the general public, animals - after the breeding phase - are released a few days or hours before the start of the hunt.

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The breeding pinned by L214 is located in Deux-Sèvres in Missé.

“This is one of the Gibovendée sites.

Gibovendée breeds pheasants and partridges, either to resell them to hunting companies and federations, or to send hatching eggs or chicks to other game farms all over the world ”

, writes L214.

Citing figures from the National Union of Hunting Game Producers (SNPGC), L214 recalls that more than 14 million pheasants and 5 million partridges are reared each year.

Gibovendée has 300,000 breeding pheasants and partridges, and produces 20 million hatching eggs and one million birds ready to be released each year, as the company reports on its website.

Pictures of animals in agony

What exactly is reproached with the breeding of Gibovendée in Missé?

On the images shot by the association, we can see thousands of cages lined up: they contain pheasants and partridges for hundreds of meters.

“Breeding birds, pheasants and partridges, are kept in hundreds of wire cages that stretch out as far as the eye can see.

These birds try in vain to take off and come up against the net which closes their cage while their legs rest on a wire mesh floor ”

, writes L214.

In other words, when trying to escape, the birds hit their heads.

The association also explains that the forced promiscuity between animals makes aggression inevitable.

Thus, to limit the severity, a cap or a ring is attached to the beaks of the animals.

In these cages, some birds get their heads stuck in the passage dedicated to the eggs, we find them in agony, others dead,

” continues L214.

Several photos indeed confirm the statements of the association.


A stuck pheasant is in agony L214

A stuck pheasant is in agony L214

“Millions of animals are bred to be rifle fodder.


We find the very classic images of mass farming: caged animals, others that grow up crammed in the dark for part of their life.

After a passage in the aviary, these animals are released, completely unsuited to an environment which is unknown to them, without knowing how to fend for themselves, with a horde of hunters on their heels, ”

analyzes Sébastien Arsac, spokesperson for L214.

According to the association, Gibovendée makes a third of its turnover in the United Kingdom.

“The main shipping companies on the link between France and the United Kingdom (Brittany Ferries, P&O ferries, DFDS Seaways) refuse to transport animals intended for hunting.

To our knowledge, Eurotunnel is the last access route to the UK.

We are taking advantage of this new survey to ask Eurotunnel to make the same commitments as the shipping companies ”

, concludes L214.

Source: lefigaro

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