Boe's Story: Boar stalls: Wacol Pig Semen Collection Facility

Boe's Story - a boar who suffered terribly at a pig semen collection facility in Brisbane.

Have you heard of boar stalls? An unseen facet of pig farming, boars are kept in small stalls all their lives, only briefly being released for semen collection a few times a week.

Footage released in January 2019 shows filthy conditions, violent abuse by workers, untreated wounds, and one boar left to slowly die over several days.
Authorities have failed to prosecute and boars continue to suffer in this facility every day.
This is the reality for animals that live within this broken system, but thanks to you, more and more people are becoming aware and turning away from animal agriculture.
In January (2019) we received footage from investigators that showed extremely upsetting footage of boars (uncastrated male pigs) at a semen collection facility at Wacol, Brisbane. It was heartbreaking to see these pigs suffer. In particular, one boar who we named Boe, whose condition deteriorated over the course of the week-long investigation until he finally died and was left outside the facility to rot.

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Published Sat 9 August 2025
Captured/filmed January 2019
Created January 2019
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Duration 1m 58s
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Company Premier Pig Genetics