Typical broiler chicken shed. Unhealthy young birds, unable to walk properly with red raw skin from sitting on the excrement and urine of thousands of other chicks in a crowded enclosed space.
	One of countless chicks in this condition rescued from a broiler chicken shed -  unable to walk or access food and water. She was taken to a vet, but sadly didn't survive.
	The stench in the sheds from excrement, damp litter and rotting bodies is overwhelming.

THANK YOU to everyone who submitted an objection against the proposed broiler farm on the Bellarine Peninsula. We are relieved to announce that all your objections had a huge impact and the application has now been withdrawn! There is no doubt that the withdrawal of this application was due to the many objections sent to the local council.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

It’s shocking to know that yet another application has been submitted to a Victorian Council to permit a hell concentration camp for chickens, this time in the Bellarine Peninsula. Residents are understandably against the proposed Class B Broiler farm that would confine 339,000 chickens in six warehouse sheds – five times a year! 

ALV’s openrescue teams have been investigating these sheds for over 30 years and have documented the atrocities that lay hidden behind the walls of these prisons. One of ALV’s most comprehensive being the fourteen month investigation into Parkhurst Farms, a huge ‘broiler’ chicken factory farm near Melbourne, exposing horrendous cruelty. This included dead birds that were left rotting in the sheds being eaten by other birds, unimaginably unhygienic conditions, and sick and crippled birds, with painful deformities.