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A Manitoba hog farmer has been fined $60,000 after pleading guilty to animal cruelty charges.
That's almost double the previous highest fine levied for an animal cruelty case in Manitoba.
In addition, Martin Grenier, 39, has also been banned from owning livestock for the rest of his life.
"A message should be send to producers [on how to treat animals]. This was an extreme case of animal cruelty that by all [accounts] was avoidable," said Judge Kelly Moar in handing down the sentence on Friday in Winnipeg.
Grenier was arrested at his farm near Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes in the Rural Municipality of Lorne last summer when police found hundreds of dead pigs and carcasses. Many more had to be euthanized.
In total, officials say 861 animals died at the barn or were euthanized later by authorities. But that is a conservative number, according to Moar.
He said it was impossible to count all of them because there were only part of animals remaining in some cases.
Grenier pleaded guilty in a Winnipeg court room on Thursday to the charges under the province's Animal Care Act.
He refused to talk to reporters when he left court after Friday's sentencing.
The fine was a joint recommendation from Crown prosecutor Sean Brennan and defence lawyer Mike Radcliffe.
The payment is not due all at once. It will be paid out in $12,000 segments every May 1, from 2012 to 2016.
Notre Dame des Lourdes is located about 110 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg.
That's almost double the previous highest fine levied for an animal cruelty case in Manitoba.
In addition, Martin Grenier, 39, has also been banned from owning livestock for the rest of his life.
"A message should be send to producers [on how to treat animals]. This was an extreme case of animal cruelty that by all [accounts] was avoidable," said Judge Kelly Moar in handing down the sentence on Friday in Winnipeg.
Grenier was arrested at his farm near Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes in the Rural Municipality of Lorne last summer when police found hundreds of dead pigs and carcasses. Many more had to be euthanized.
In total, officials say 861 animals died at the barn or were euthanized later by authorities. But that is a conservative number, according to Moar.
He said it was impossible to count all of them because there were only part of animals remaining in some cases.
Grenier pleaded guilty in a Winnipeg court room on Thursday to the charges under the province's Animal Care Act.
He refused to talk to reporters when he left court after Friday's sentencing.
The fine was a joint recommendation from Crown prosecutor Sean Brennan and defence lawyer Mike Radcliffe.
The payment is not due all at once. It will be paid out in $12,000 segments every May 1, from 2012 to 2016.
Notre Dame des Lourdes is located about 110 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg.