Fly-struck sheep in stunning restraint

A sheep with mainly healed wounds on their back is stunned using an electric stunner. These wounds are likely from fly-strike, a common affliction caused by maggots feeding on live sheep.

An electric stunner is used to paralyse sheep before their throats are slit. Our cameras captured sheep being violently stabbed with the electric stunner up to eight times before they were tipped into the kill room. Sheep were also captured escaping into the kill room and having their throats slit while fully conscious, or displaying signs of consciousness after their throats had been slit.