The project for the Avícola Son Perot chicken mega-farm, which aims to produce 26.5 million eggs annually at the Son Brau estate in Manacor, presents urban planning non-compliances and serious environmental shortcomings. This is warned by the mandatory reports issued by the Manacor City Council, to which ARA Balears has had access. All municipal departments that have had to intervene in the administrative procedure have reported unfavorably on this controversial project that is accumulating opponents. The company's track record, involved in multiple complaints of animal abuse and health-related issues, has put the area's residents on a war footing.

Decomposing chicken carcasses, injured animals, and birds trapped in manure. This is what the recordings that support the second complaint in one week against an Avícola Ballester farm show. Animal rights organizations ARDE and Satya Animal are once again pointing out a facility of the company, this time the one in Es Caparó, in Manacor, where the images recorded in July document scenes that a veterinary report considers compatible with severe deterioration of animal welfare.

About seventy residents demonstrated in front of the Manacor City Council with banners and shouts of ‘No Macro-farm’ just before the ordinary plenary session of July. During the session, the plenary approved a motion presented jointly by the governing team (MÉS-Esquerra, PSOE and AIPC) and the PP against macro-farms in Mallorca.The affected neighbours left the plenary session happy. The motion, generic and which does not explicitly mention the toponym of Son Brau at any time, nor the company Avícola Son Perot, which is the one that wants to build this farm of 80,000 laying hens, was approved, with the only votes against from Vox. They asked for a statement from all parties, who showed themselves, with more or less vagueness and with more or less arguments, contrary to “intensive exploitations like this one”.Avícola Son Perot has presented a project that seeks to comply with the provisions established by law 2/2025, approved, precisely, to prevent the construction of a mega-farm by this same company in the municipality of Sineu with a load of 800,000 chickens.In fact, Avícola Son Perot also owns the Llucmajor mega-farm, sadly known as 'the farm of horrors', after images of the interior of the facilities were leaked showing that the animals are in "deplorable conditions". "Live hens coexist with dozens of carcasses in different states of decomposition, including skeletons and other animals, such as rats (alive or poisoned) and hedgehogs, expired fire extinguishers and containers with carcasses in a state of putrefaction and full of worms" an informant who allegedly took the images told a media outlet. Avícola Son Perot received a fine of 200,000 euros for the conditions of the facilities.Now, the company presents itself as a modern entity adapted to the times and current law. But we must have memory and remember what actions it has carried out previously.Meanwhile, there are many questions that our representatives in the City Council could answer. Why, despite the verbal agreement that the government team had with the representatives of the Macrogranja No platform, did the motion finally have to be presented urgently? Did they have doubts about the advisability of presenting it?Why does the motion speak exclusively of mega-farms and not mention the concept of 'farm' at all? Is this absence intentional? Does the fact that the farm planned in Son Brau is for 80,000 chickens, ten times less than the load projected in Sineu, have anything to do with it? Is the one they are now asking to build in Manacor really considered a mega-farm?

The Manacor City Council urged the Government this Monday to stop the project to build a mega-farm with 80,000 laying hens on the Son Brau estate. The proposal received the support of all municipal groups, both from the parties forming the government team (MÉS-Esquerra, PSOE, and AIPC) and from the Popular Party. Only Vox distanced itself. The Consistory bases its request on a series of unfavorable environmental reports issued by municipal technicians.

The GOB has presented a series of allegations to the project for the chicken mega-farm that would be located in the Son Brau area, in which it is requested that the environmental impact declaration not be "favorable" until an "adequate" assessment of the repercussions on the na Borges Special Conservation Area (ZEC) is provided.

The meeting in Petra to report on the Son Brau chicken mega-farm project in Manacor became a call for unity of "all the municipalities of Mallorca" against this project that the promoting company wanted to launch in Sineu and has now moved to the capital of Llevant, as well as against other similar initiatives that may be promoted on the island's rural land.

Nobody wants it. As already happened with the Sineu macro-farm project, to which Maria and Llubí were opposed, the initiative that the same company now wants to carry out in Manacor has met with opposition from neighboring towns. Petra and Ariany are also raising their voices due to the project's proximity to urban centers.

“We ask the Manacor City Council and the Government to stop this aberration which, among other things, will produce eight tons of manure daily. When it rains, they will intoxicate all the aquifers that reach the city,” denounced this Wednesday afternoon Sílvia Llull, one of those affected by the mega-farm of 80,000 laying hens that the company Avícola Son Perot wants to build on the Manacor estate of Son Brau.

The company Avícola Son Perot SA intends to carry out the construction of a new poultry farm for egg production on a plot located in the municipal district of Manacor, near the residential area of Son Talent, following the Ma-3322 road.

The Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands has admitted for processing the appeal against the dismissal of the investigation for animal abuse against the poultry mega-farm in the Mallorcan municipality of Llucmajor after upholding the appeal by 'STOP macrogranja Llucmajor. Sin Olor ni Moscas' against the dismissal of the case.

The smell of manure permeated the town of Sineu on Tuesday afternoon and evening. A large truck loaded with manure had been seen passing by that morning. Today, the City Council issued a report on the dumping and reported the incident to the regional government's Departments of Environment and Agriculture. It has also requested the owner of the Son Vanrell estate submit a waste management plan.

The Llucmajor City Council plenary session unanimously approved a motion this Thursday calling for the closure of the Son Perot Poultry Farm. The motions were approved, but subsequently not implemented. "Neither the mayor nor her government team will lift a finger to close the farm," criticized the Socialist spokesperson in the municipality, Jaume Oliver, according to the party in a press release reported by Europa Press.