This Wednesday morning, the last truckload of chickens from the Avícola Son Perot farm in Llucmajor departed for the Spanish mainland. According to owner Onofre Ballester, speaking to ARA Baleares, this means the Llucmajor poultry farm has completed the de-escalation plan ordered by the Balearic Government in August. The government set a deadline of December 31st for the Llucmajor farm to cull chickens until its population was reduced to 40,000 due to an investigation opened against the farm following complaints from neighbors and several animal rights organizations that published videos showing birds in poor condition. Ballester explained that there are currently only 40,000 chickens left on the farm, and the rest had to be transported to slaughterhouses on the mainland to comply with the measure, "since there aren't any in the Balearic Islands," he criticized. All of this is happening against a backdrop of increased egg consumption in Spain. Demand for eggs has risen by approximately 20% since 2019, an increase attributed to the perceived nutritional and health benefits they have gained in recent years, according to the latest data published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. For this reason, Ballester considers the regulation "the world turned upside down; we're killing hens and there's a shortage of eggs."