Farmers rattled after pigs, chickens stolen from central Nova Scotia farms
COOKS BROOK, N.S. — Someone is stealing the free-range pigs and chickens of central Nova Scotia — even leaving the remains of one pig behind after butchering it.
A litter of piglets, six heritage Berkshire pigs and 40 chickens were stolen from Moo Nay Farms in Cooks Brook, about an hour northeast of Halifax.
Farmer Melvin Burns said he also found the remains of a slaughtered pig on a plastic sheet at the edge of the sprawling free-range family farm.
“They stole a pig from the field, butchered it and carried the meat away,” he said in an interview. “They dumped the rest of it.”