Tinder Creek Duck Abattoir

Footage captured at Tinder Creek Duck slaughterhouse in Tennyson, NSW in late 2024 shows chickens and ducks having their throats slit while fully conscious. Workers were captured deliberately placing ducks on the shackle line after the electrified stun bath, which is used to paralyse birds before their throats are slit. Ducks are seen flapping their wings and lifting their heads after their throats have been slit.

Other chickens and ducks are seen to lift their heads, avoiding the electrified water and emerging from the stunning bath fully conscious. They continue to struggle as they are moved along the shackle line and into the further processing area where their feathers and organs are removed. One duck in the footage falls into the stun bath and can be seen trying to lift their head free of the water for over a minute before finally drowning.

Footage taken by activists after hours in the kill room shows blood and feathers covering the floor, next to the butchered bodies of chickens and ducks waiting to be picked up and taken to be sold.

This facility commenced operations in 2017, and the old location in Kellyville NSW was demolished.