Can anyone tell me what the info on the ScotEID database really does get used for? We registered ages ago (more than 3 years) but have never used it.
Now we have pigs, we have had to take more interest and learn to use it, and out of interest just had a look at what was down as our sheep holding register, and am really confused! There are movements on there that never happened, movements not there that should be etc., and I am not sure what to do.
I know I should probably ring them and ask for advice, but I can just imagine the whole palaver that would start, probably ending up in us getting in trouble for something we've not done. I guess what I am wondering is does it really matter? Our holding register we keep at home is spot on, I am a bit obsessed with it, and I am annoyed that this data is held about us that is inaccurate.
One example is, back in September, my husband hauled 40 lambs to a mart for a neighbour. They were not sold, and he hauled them back again to the farm they came from. The movement licence was correctly filled in by our neighbour (I have checked it, although he was hardly going to write our holding number instead of his own), but on ScotEID, these lambs are recorded as leaving OUR farm, and coming back to our neighbour's. I assume this was incorrectly entered at the mart, who maybe have just looked at the face of the person handing in the licence and made the assumption (although OH did say where they were from), or glanced very briefly at the licence and saw OHs name/vehicle reg down as haulier and assumed from that.
I want things to be right, but I can't face triggering loads of inspections and trouble - we have absolutely nothing to hide, but still they take ages, and I also don't want to get someone else into loads of trouble for what is probably just a simple clerical error. Maybe I am overthinking this and I should just ignore it and monitor that things are correct from now on?