Authorities say Joshua Shelton has been charged with burglary, malicious destruction of property and trespassing.
The sheriff's office says the owner of a farm on East Line Road in Delmar told a deputy early Saturday that the power had been turned off in three poultry houses, which deprived the chickens of food, water and cooling fans.
Shelton was found lying in the power control shed. Authorities say he was wearing a T-shirt and boxer shorts and smelled of alcohol.
The sheriff's office says the deputy determined that Shelton had turned off the circuit breakers that controlled electricity to the poultry houses.
Source: The Associated Press
1) How did the deputy determine that Shelton turned off the circuit breakers?
2) How long was the power out to cause 70,000 chickens to die? How could this have gone unnoticed by the Farmer?
3) 70,000 chickens live in three poultry houses? Factory Farming should be illegal. If we lived in a world where we respected all living beings, even those that are our 'food' the Farmer would be arrested.
4) What is the Truth here? What actually caused the death of 70,000 chickens?
We deserve answers, not headlines. A better headline would be 'Goat found in Poultry house (scapegoat, that is)'.