Loud DJ Music At Wedding Party Kills 63 Chickens, Alleges Odisha Poultry Farm Owner

In a tragic incident, at least 60 broiler chickens died in a poultry farm due to loud music coming from a bridegroom party in Odisha. Following which, the poultry farm owner filed a complaint against his neighbour.

In the complaint lodged at Nilagiri police station, poultry farm owner Ranjit Parida, resident of Kandagaradi village, claimed that his chickens died of suspected heart attacks brought on by the blaring music played by the DJ at his neighbour Ramachandra Parida¡¯s wedding procession on Sunday.

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"Chickens in my farm started running around in fear "

¡°At about 11 pm on Sunday, the bridegroom party from the nearby village of Maitapur arrived at my village with the DJ music playing loudly. The bridegroom party also blasted high-intensity firecrackers. As the sound was too much to bear for the 2000 broiler chickens on my farm, I requested people in the marriage procession to lower the volume. However, they all seemed to be drunk and verbally abused me. The terrified chickens in my farm started running around in fear and an hour later I found 63 chickens dead,¡± Ranjit told HT.

The poultry farm owner attempted to revive the chickens after they collapsed but it was in vain. He then checked with a local veterinarian, who diagnosed that the loud noise had caused the birds to go into shock, killing them.

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"They refused to compensate"

The poultry farmer said when he asked the family of the bride the next morning about the death of poultry birds, they refused to compensate. ¡°I lost around 180 kg of chicken due to the loud sound as the birds probably died of shock,¡± said Ranjit. Nilagiri police station inspector-in-charge Droupadi Das said she has called both Ranjit and his neighbour for a discussion on the complaint.

Ranjit, 22, an engineering graduate who was unable to find a job, started his broiler farm after taking a loan of Rs 2 lakh from a cooperative bank in Nilagiri in 2019.

Neighbour ridiculed the allegations as hogwash

Balasore Police SP Sudhanshu Mishra told India Today that the Nilagiri police station has received a complaint in this regard. ¡°The charges were being verified. However, the issue has been settled by both parties amicably at the police station,¡± he added.

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Meanwhile, Ramachandra Parida ridiculed the allegations as hogwash, and countered it by saying, ¡°When lakhs of chickens are transported on the road on daily basis amid blaring horns, how is it possible that the birds in his farm died due to DJ music? However, after he came to me and complained about the loud noise, we lowered the volume.¡±

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