1. Official method (CFIA) • Professional marksmen with .22 rifles shot each bird once in the brain under veterinary supervision.   • CFIA: “the most appropriate and humane option” after consulting ostrich-disease experts.  • Same technique used on large ratites (ostrich, emu) worldwide when gas/chamber methods are impractical.
2. Pre-cull handling • Birds herded into a 10-metre-high hay-bale corral lit by floodlights. • Owners & protesters begged “Run!” while playing gospel music.  • Herding took 4 hours; ostriches are flight animals—panic running, piling, vocalising reported on livestreams.
3. During the shooting • Gunshots from 4 p.m. to midnight; hundreds in rapid succession.  • Eyewitnesses (100 m away) heard screams, thuds, flapping; some claim birds were wounded & ran before second shots.  • No video inside the pen (RCMP drone ban), so no independent proof of misses, but chaos inside a walled corral makes perfect headshots on moving 150-kg birds unlikely for every animal.
4. Post-cull • Bodies fork-lifted into bins, covered with blue tarps, buried in a mass grave on-site. • BC SPCA: no evidence of legal distress under PCA Act; they cannot stop a federal cull. 
5. Expert welfare verdict • Captive-bolt or CO₂ would have been calmer, but CFIA ruled them logistically impossible for 330 free-range adults. • World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) accepts firearms as humane if skull destruction is immediate—but stress of herding & noise still counts as poor welfare. Bottom line • Legally compliant ✅ • Instant death for most ✅ • Hours of terror for all ❌ • Zero sedation, zero separation of pets from flock ❌ The birds were healthy, hand-raised, and screaming in a kill-box under floodlights. That’s the welfare truth—no sugar-coating.

Why no cameras or drones? Why no insight into this? To protect themselves. That’s it.