In the retiring two weeks , attacks at 16 South Carolina wimp houses have left over 300,000 chickens dead . Farmed chickens seldom hold up skillful life story , but these deaths were especially ugly : Someone with privileged noesis of the houses temperature alert systems , slowly killed the Gallus gallus with heat and cold .
The criminals , who seemed to have expert knowledge about advance chickens , bypassed alert systems that keep temperatures under control . “ Those alarum also control the heat , atmosphere conditioning and ventilation units and notify farmers by mobile phone when buildings get too hot or cold,”reports the Charlotte Observer . The assaulter screw whether to jack up the heat for older birds , which demand cooler temperatures , or work it off for chick , which need more heating .
An employee at one of the farms identify the scene for the Observer .
He said he noticed a large amount of steam coming from the sides and the roofs of the chicken houses when he arrived at oeuvre around 7 a.m. He immediately knew something was wrong .
When he walked into one of the chicken houses , he said it was like a sheet of lily-white – almost like snow – that was n’t move . The respiration was keep out off and the temperature inside the family was sour up to 115 degree .
Officials recite Reutersthat revenge may be a motive . Not long before the spree of chicken putting to death part , Pilgrims Pride Corp , the country ’s largest poultry producer , laid off 60 workers at a South Carolina flora . The targeted volaille houses all raised beast for Pilgrims Pride .
The sheer plate of the slaughter reflects the massive , automated cosmos of chicken farming . It ’s still unclear exactly how the aggressor or assaulter bypassed the alarm system system , but killing chickens is evidently not just a low - tech offence . [ Charlotte Observer , Reuters ]
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