Wonga Piggery

Thursday 6 Jul 2017 by (Aussie Farms)

Documents granted under the NSW GIPA ACT reveal disturbing information about the 2015 fires that killed approximately 250 pigs at the Boen Boe Piggery in Joadja and 2,500 pigs at the Wonga (Windridge) Piggery in Young. Read more >

Friday 19 Jun 2015 by Christine Speelman (Sydney Morning Herald)

About 2500 pigs have been killed after a fire broke out in a shed in south-western NSW on Wednesday. The fire, believed to have been started by an electrical fault, destroyed about 70 per cent of the 120-metre shed in which the pigs were housed. Read more >

Thursday 18 Jun 2015 by Skye Manson (ABC Rural)

About 2,000 pigs have been killed in a fire at a piggery in central New South Wales. Read more >

Wednesday 17 Jun 2015 by Alex Druce (The Land)

Staff at the Wonga Piggery near Young will be offered counselling after more than 2000 pigs were killed in a shed fire this morning. Read more >

Wednesday 17 Jun 2015 by Christine Speelman (The Young Witness)

An estimated 2500 weaners have been killed in a shed fire at Wonga piggery on Wednesday morning. Read more >

Thursday 5 Dec 2013 by Aussie Farms

Windridge Farms’ Wonga Piggery, owned by the parents of Edwina Beveridge, is the twelfth Australian piggery to be exposed for animal cruelty by Animal Liberation; the fifth in the Young NSW region. Read more >