(File picture)Almost 200,000 chickens were found dead after suffocating when a power failure hit a poultry farm. ​Stuff was told a power cut impacted the poultry farm, on the outskirts of Auckland, and equipment that was pumping air into the sheds stopped working as the backup generator failed. (Video first published October 18)The Ministry for Primary Industries confirmed it was investigating the "deaths of a large number of chickens". As a result of the suspected equipment failure, it was thought that about 180,000 chickens died at the farm, which supplies poultry company Tegel Foods. Tegel confirmed that "a power interruption on the grid and the subsequent failure in the backup systems has resulted in the loss of birds from a farm".

Source: Stuff December 02, 2019 05:37 UTC