Game of Chicken in Wales

The county of Powys in Wales has 8.5m chickens, concentrated in about 100 Intensive Poultry Farms (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/30/welsh-council-admits-it-should-not-have-approved-vast-poultry-farm). After a Crowdfunded challenge by Sustainable Food Knighton (a body concerned with traditional farming), the Council have admitted they should not have approved yet another 110,000 chicken farm, near Berriew in Powys. The Council were unable to prove the development will not have further detrimental environmental influences on people living around the area. One of the problems is that chicken faeces are disposed of by spreading them on fields around each farm. This material inevitably washes into watercourses and has already produced intense algal blooms in the nearby River Wye (the waters of which, have illegally high levels of phosphates). Algal blooms kill off much of the life in rivers. It sounds as if there are already too many IPFs in this area and that alternative disposal methods for chicken droppings need to be urgently considered.