A Ripon man disqualified from keeping or owning animals has been charged with possessing 76 birds and a string of other offences.
Michael Andrew Hawkswell, of Nunwick near Ripon, appeared at York Magistrates Court on Monday, accused of breaching the Animal Welfare Act 2006, which forbids him from keeping animals.
Besides possessing the birds, Hawkswell, 45, is charged with five other offences.
They include buying and transporting two goats, possessing seven sheep in his trailer, possessing a duck, unloading poultry from a vehicle into sale pens at Highgate auctions in Rotherham and buying and selling poultry.
Mr Hawkswell was remanded on unconditional bail for a medical or psychiatric report to be prepared.
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