Name: Signium Piggery
Address: 315 Mooneys Ln, Ellangowan NSW 2470, Australia
LGA/Council: Richmond Valley Council
Council website: richmondvalley.nsw.gov.au
Council email: [email protected]
Summary:

Footage captured covertly by activists shows rodents swarming and dead, rotting animals.

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Last known status: Closed
Listing updated: 2025
Listing ID: db4bf
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Confirmed closed by an anonymous investigator in mid 2025: "Checked all sheds, no pigs, no rats, no smell".

Exposed for cruelty and filthy conditions in 2019: Animal Liberation Qld together with Animal Liberation (NSW) released anonymously obtained undercover footage from Signium Piggery in northern NSW.

The released video, which includes hidden camera footage obtained between July & August 2019, shows:

  • An extreme rat infestation
  • Decomposing corpses being eaten by rats
  • Floor and food troughs covered in rat faeces, being eaten by pigs and piglets
  • Bodies of pigs being left outside completely exposed
  • Sows and boars confined to tiny stalls who are only let out for mating purposes
  • Pigs being hit, sat on, kicked and poked with metal poles and cattle prods for not complying.