SYCAMORE – A fire broke out in a Sycamore-area livestock barn Monday afternoon off Barber Greene Road, with numerous animals presumed dead.

Deputy Meagan Pettengell of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office said that the barn’s owner, Roger Sutherland, called 911 and was later taken to an area hospital for possible smoke inhalation. No other people were taken to the hospital.

Emergency officials blocked the road as firefighters put out the flames.

The fire was put out in about two hours. The cause of the fire hadn’t been publicly identified Monday evening.

About 14 piglets and some rabbits were believed to be in the barn at the time of the fire.

DeKalb County Animal Control was called to the scene and arrived about 5:45 p.m.

Firefighters from Sycamore, DeKalb, Genoa-Kingston, Hampshire, Burlington and Malta responded to the fire.

The property, located at 13875 Barber Greene Road in rural Sycamore, is owned by Roger and Silvia Sutherland.

Sutherland’s farm, known as Beeutiful Bounty, specializes in American Guinea hogs, Nigerian dwarf goats, honeybees, rabbits, turkeys and chickens, according to LocalHarvest.org. The farm also sells honey and other bee-related products and soaps made with goat’s milk. Piglets, bunnies and chicks also are for sale, the site says.

The goal of the farm is to promote farming the old-fashioned way, according to the farm’s Facebook page.