Take action for game birds

Every year, around 50 million pheasants and partridges are purpose-bred for the shooting industry. Animal Aid continues to call for a ban on the production of birds for ‘sport’ shooting. But as an important interim measure, we are campaigning for an end to the battery cages in which thousands of ‘game' birds used for egg production are incarcerated.

Take action!

Write to your MP, asking for his or her support for the campaign to ban these cruel cages.

Watch – and share!

Get a bird’s eye view of what it’s like for caged pheasants and partridges.

A typical partridge cage

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Footage of pheasant and partridge breeding cages

Photos from our 2017 investigation at Heart of England Farms Ltd

Heart of England Reeves's pheasant wearing beak spectacles
Heart of England female pheasants with wound dressing and beak shrouds
Heart of England pheasant cage containing male pheasant and female with beak shrouds
Heart of England partridge with beak problems
Heart of England partridges with feather loss
Heart of England pheasant wearing beak shroud
Heart of England dead bird
Heart of England dead bird still in the cage six days later
Heart of England remains of decomposed bird sitting in egg tray
Heart of England female pheasant with feather loss
Heart of England cows grazing on waste containing dead birds
Heart of England dead bird in waste
Heart of England crow in trap
 
Heart of England Reeves's pheasant wearing beak spectacles
Heart of England female pheasants with wound dressing and beak shrouds
Heart of England pheasant cage containing male pheasant and female with beak shrouds
Heart of England partridge with beak problems
Heart of England partridges with feather loss
Heart of England pheasant wearing beak shroud
Heart of England dead bird
Heart of England dead bird still in the cage six days later
Heart of England remains of decomposed bird sitting in egg tray
Heart of England female pheasant with feather loss
Heart of England cows grazing on waste containing dead birds
Heart of England dead bird in waste
Heart of England crow in trap

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