News & Media: Fire at pig stud farm kills up to 200 animals in NSW southern highlands
Fire at pig stud farm kills up to 200 animals in NSW southern highlands
Up to 200 pigs are thought to have been killed in a fire on a stud in the New South Wales southern highlands.
Fire crews were called to the Boen Boe piggery at Joadja near Bowral at about 10:00am on Thursday.
Inspector David Bartlett from the southern highlands Rural Fire Service said crews arrived to find multiple sheds alight.
"The sheds were holding livestock. From what I understand there has been multiple livestock losses due to the fire," he said.
"We do have a fire investigator investigating the fire as we speak but those circumstances of the fire are yet to be determined."
A Department of Primary Industries vet was on scene treating injured livestock.
The blaze took three hours for firefighters to extinguish.
Police are now investigating the cause.
