Ridglan Farms cited for manure-filled trench built to stop protesters

https://www.channel3000.com/news/ridglan-farms-cited-for-manure-filled-
trench-built-to-stop-protesters/article_1f3f58a9-1cc5-4513-a017-
974c6726eb31.html

MADISON, Wis. — Ridglan Farms, the embattled animal breeding and research 
facility in the Town of Blue Mounds, was ticketed for a manure-filled 
trench used to slow protesters over the weekend.

Ridglan was cited for constructing or altering a manure storage facility 
without a permit, a court document obtained by Channel3000.com shows.

A break-in on Saturday morning saw approximately 1,000 activists descend 
on the Ridglan Farms property, where the movement's leader, 44-year-old 
Wayne Hsiung of New York, was arrested. Roughly 25 arrests were made, many 
of whom were released.

Protests continued through Monday morning. Activists at the Wisconsin 
State Capitol converged outside Gov. Tony Evers' office chanting "Free the 
dogs!"

Hsiung and others have spent years accusing Ridglan Farms of animal 
cruelty and calling for dogs at the facility to be released.

Reviews by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer 
Protection raised concerns over "cherry eye" procedures performed on 
beagles at the facility. Richard Von Domelen, Ridglan's lead veterinarian, 
saw his license suspended after DATCP found he delegated the procedures to 
staff who weren't properly licensed.

The department hit Ridglan Farms with 311 violations last September, 
mostly centered on the cherry eye procedures. In 2025, the facility 
entered into a settlement with a special prosecutor that saw it hand over 
its breeding license, effective July 1, in order to avoid criminal 
prosecution. The facility was allowed to continue operating as a research 
facility.

An estimated 2,000 dogs are kept at the facility, but Ridglan Farms 
maintains that it is committed to the care of its dogs.

The research facility acknowledged that it was cited for constructing a 
manure storage facility without a permit and added it will take 
appropriate steps in response to the citation, and added it did not built 
a manure storage facility. 

"Ridglan Farms did not construct a manure storage facility." "We took 
reasonable measures to protect our health research facility from the 
announced unlawful invasion." "We dug a trench around the perimeter of the 
facility. This obstacle impeded a dangerous mob that sought to commit a 
forcible mass break-in and theft that placed law enforcement, employees, 
bystanders and animals at risk." Ridglan Farms said in a statement. 


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