A man who cruelly mistreated bobby calves will now serve jail time after originally being sentenced to home detention.
Noel Erickson, 38, was secretly filmed kicking, hitting and throwing bobby calves while working as a casual slaughterman at pet food business Down Cow in Waikato.
He was sentenced to 10 months' home detention and 200 hours' community work in July this year.
The sentence was appealed by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), which said it was inadequate.
The home detention sentence was quashed in the High Court at Hamilton yesterday, and Erickson will now serve two years in prison.