Prince William County police euthanized approximately 200 chickens earlier this week due to poor health and contagious upper respiratory infections following the FBI’s Jan. 21 raid at Haymarket’s Rancho Los Cerritos farm that led to the arrests of the farm’s manager and owner on drug and gun trafficking charges.
Lt. Jonathan Perok, a Prince William police spokesman, told InsideNoVa numerous animals recovered from the farm – including ducks, turkeys, a llama, pigs and rabbits – were in good health but remain in “a pseudo-limbo stage.”
“As of right now, there’s a process in which, if we hold them for 30 days, they become our property, but we would have to wait that 30 days …,” Perok said. “There’s no one there to take custody of them, and we obviously cannot leave them on the property without adequate care – so they are in our custody for safekeeping.”…