Its kind of fucked up what happened.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235171/Campaigners-blast-producers-The-Hobbit-movies-27-animals-die-filming-trilogy.html
- Wranglers caring for the animals claim the farm they were kept at near Wellington, New Zealand, was full of bluffs, sinkholes and other 'death traps'
- Spokesman for trilogy director Peter Jackson says action was taken to rectify the situation after 'avoidable' deaths of two horses
Mr Smythe added that he buried six goats and six sheep after they fell into sinkholes, contracted worms or died after getting new feed because all the grass had been eaten.
He said the chickens were often left out of their enclosure and that a dozen were mauled to death by dogs on two separate occasions.