Oamaru man banned from owning stock for two years

Oamaru man banned from owning stock for two years

Reading Time: 2 minutes A 60-year-old Oamaru man has been fined $3500 and disqualified from being in charge of animals for two years under the Animal Welfare Act for ill-treating 10 lambs. In March, Ross Murray Macaulay received the sentence in the Oamaru District Court. He was moving a mob of 64 lambs from a truck unloading area at the meat processing plant where he worked.  When they did not move freely, he struck them with a hard plastic stic…