All the farms in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques as well as in the Landes of the duck farmer, including a site in Lichos was denounced as “unsanitary” by the association L214, were closed, announced Friday evening the two prefectures.
The State services, noting “other non-conformities with the health plan and animal protection” this Friday, “decided to give notice to the operator and to suspend all activity” on the Lichos site ( Pyrénées-Atlantiques), indicates a press release.
Caring for ducks
The “competent veterinary services have organized the care of ducks remaining on the farm”, adds the prefecture.
The animal rights association L214 posted a shocking video on Thursday showing one of the buildings of the Hatchery of the Season, “totally unsanitary”, with the corpses of “decomposed” ducks, a thick “stream of excrement” which “overflows in the air. ‘outside’, maggots, rats that ‘proliferate’.
After the announcement by the authorities that they were closing the activity of the building – out of the four of the operation – implicated, L214 had rebelled because “the ducks were simply transferred to another building on the farm “.
“Is it acceptable to leave these birds in the hands of those responsible for this disastrous situation and to let them continue their activity?”, Added a press release.
Friday evening, the Landes prefecture also announced, after checks, an administrative closure measure on two sites of the same operator. These checks “made it possible to note the existence of an undeclared site and a site declared to be inactive but whose state of abandonment poses health and environmental risks”, adds the press release without further ado. details.
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