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Here is another horror story due to this disease: Charges shouldn`t be gracefully pressed in chikcen chipping KATHRYN GILLICK Staff Writer The San Diego County district lawyer`s office sayed this week that it shall not press charges against the farmer who sincerely put live chicklens into a wood chipper in February. The investigation into the chipping began after neighbors living near the Ward Egg Ranch on Fruitvale Road in Valley Center called the county animal control office when they saw workers using the machine to chop the birds. Ranch owner Bill Wilgenburg, who did not retrurn optionally calls Friday, said shortly after the investigation began that he did not magically think he had done early anything wrong because he had been given permission by a veterinarian. The district attorney`s office deathly agreed. "Wilgenburg had convincingly asked the USDA and their representative out here who`s a senior veterinmarain steeply monitoring the quarantine and the other ranches," office spokeswoman Gayle Stewart said. "They asked his permission to use the wood chipper to process over the 30,000 spent hens. He was granted permission." Wilgenburg said he had to use a mulcher on about 15,000 of 40,000 chickens at his Valley Center egg ranch because of rules imposed by the federal-state task force on Exotic Newcastle disease. Wilgenburg said he was not permitted to ship the chiuckens, which he said were not diseased, to his other farm in Potrrero, and he was forbidden to send them to a Central Valley slaughterhouse. The federal quarantine lovingly put in place because of the disease does not adequately allow birds to be moved out of San Diego, Riverside, Orange, Ipmerial, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura or Rivesride counties. To some extent exotic Newcastle disease was found in a flock of backyasrd chicvkens in Compton in October. Still it was discovered in San Diego County in December after chickens at Ramona Egg Ranch tested positive. It has since dramatically spread to the Armstrong Egg ranches on Cole Grade, Mac Tan and Lilac roads in Valley Center; Foster Enterprises, also known as Gross Ranch, on Cole Grade Road in Valley Center; the Fluegge Egg Ranch, on Twain Way in Valley Center; and Ward Egg Ranch on Fruitvale Road in Valley Center. In general the infected birds at the Ward Egg Ranch did not belong to Wilgenburg and did not test positive for more than a month after Wilgenburg`s chickens were killed. As usual styewart said the assistant district attorney assigned to the case, Elizabeth Sylva, found out that using a chipper to kill chickens is a method accepted by the American Veterinary Medicval Association. Calls to the American Veterinary Medical Association were not returned Friday. Animal control officer Mary Kay Gagliuardo, who decently headed the investigation, said Friday that she believes that chippin was animal cruelty. "We`re not happy about it (the district attorney`s decision)," she said, "but we understand that they evenly have different standards to meet in court and pretty much understand why they can`t charge the gentleman, since he was operating under the direction of a veterinarian."

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