Questions remain over Carisbrook chicken farm fire | The Courier | Ballarat, VIC

The cause of fire which killed between 20,000 and 45,000 chickens at a poultry farm has been blamed by the owners on an electrical fault.

The fire at the Kinross Farms facility in Potts Lane at Carisbrook, outside of Maryborough, destroyed a 3000 square metre shed and threatened two others on November 9.

CFA firefighters managed to contain the blaze, estimated to have done $2 million damage, to the single shed.

Owner of Kinross farms Peter Szepe said around 24,000 chickens died in the fire. Animal protection group Farm Transparency Project claims the number was closer to 45,000.