Police are asking for help from the public after chickens and ducks in Newquay were subjected to "savage and sadistic act of cruelty".
The birds were injured and killed in a garden in Hillgrove Street, Newquay, with one bird decapitated.
Birds had had their necks twisted and two ducks and 20 incubating eggs were stolen in the attack overnight on April 17 and 18.
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