Pilgrim’s Pride offers $50,000 reward for arrest of chicken killers

GREELEY – Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. (Nasdaq: PPC) is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest of vandals who killed 325,000 chickens in rural South Carolina.

Chicken growers who supply birds to Pilgrim’s Pride, based in Greeley, are facing $1.7 million in losses because of the killings, Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett said. The farmers contract with Pilgrim’s Pride to grow chickens for the company’s prepared foods facility in Sumter, S.C.

Authorities have a “long list” of people they are looking at in connection with the killings, Garrett said.

“It’s somebody who has a very big ax to…