Author Topic: Fallen/dead stock (Read 1663 times)

colliewoman · « **on:** January 05, 2012, 10:02:23 pm »

Hi all!
I've put this on the sheep bit too, but just in case you don't all read that....

I've read on here of late the fees charged to collect dead sheep.
I thought it would be the same all over the country but it may be worth some of you checking, but certainly on the inside cover of my flock register book there are details of free collections.
I quote from my book.....
'FALLEN STOCK
Sheep and goats can be collected free of charge provided they are over 18 months or with at least 2 permanent incisors.
Sheep 01823 337922
Goats 0800 525890'.

Might be just somerset that does this, but worth you all checking. Spending over the odds for vets fees is one thing, spending over the odds for a corpse is plain daft

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #1 on:** January 05, 2012, 10:34:55 pm »

You may find the scheme still running down there but the funding has run out up here and we have to pay for all of them now. It was part of the Scrapie Testing Scheme - the animals had to have died within the last 24 hours and would be tested for scrapie when collected. The silly thing was, any farmers who thought there might be scrapie in their flocks would of course not avail themselves of the free collection, in case scrapie was found...