Someone’s picking up lots of chicks — more than 30,000 in fact — according to the latest news reports of poultry thefts happening in Canada and New York.

The apparent on-farm criminal activity included stolen livestock, destroyed fence, damage to barns, graffiti, and threats to the mink farmer’s family.

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case brought by the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation against California’s Proposition 12. In January, Proposition 12 banned the sale of pork in California from hogs born to sows that weren’t raised according to the state’s production standards.

The Bureau of Land Management has hit another roadblock in the contracting of the nation’s largest off-range holding facility in the form of lawsuits by wild horse advocates. In the meantime, funding is now available for partnerships looking to help manage and protect wild horses and burros.