Overview
- L214 released video showing an employee throwing live chicks onto a grinder conveyor and another crushing them with a scraper.
- The association filed a complaint with the Niort public prosecutor alleging severe abuse and ill-treatment under the Rural Code.
- Terrena, the cooperative that owns the site in La Boissière-en-Gâtine near Niort, condemned the footage and launched an internal investigation.
- Boyé Accouvage, which operates the hatchery, reports producing about one million chicks and 220,000 guinea fowl chicks each week for roughly 50 meat-poultry farms across five departments.
- Terrena says the meat sector does not eliminate chicks by sex and that limited culling concerns malformed chicks under strict regulation.