Chicken run: fowls freed after truck rollover

A number of emergency service first responders have had a busy morning herding live chickens after a truck rolled

The single-vehicle incident occurred just before 2 am Friday near the corner of Steiglitz Road and Muhlebach Road in Sutherland Creek, around 20 kilometres northwest of Geelong.

An SES Spokesperson says the emergency service was requested to erect a lighting right to help find all the missing chooks.

They were called out to assist at 2:05 am and the clean-up process took nearly four hours.

In 2018 a truck carrying thousands of chickens crashed off the “Sexyland” Bridge, in North Geelong

Melbourne Road was blocked for hours as crates carrying thousands of chickens spilled down an embankment beside Corio Quay Road

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