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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: pikilily on July 14, 2011, 08:26:04 pm

Title: New SCOTTISH Sheep and goat Movement document
Post by: pikilily on July 14, 2011, 08:26:04 pm

Did everyone else get their pads....somehow SAMU forgot me - they apparently came out in may! but i didnt get mine.

I thought I would mention this before others got caught out...apparently some of the Marts are refusing the animals because the owners are using the old style sheets.

HTH, Emma T

Title: Re: New SCOTTISH Sheep and goat Movement document
Post by: princesspiggy on July 14, 2011, 09:02:57 pm

i got mine, but havnt peeped at it yet!

Title: Re: New SCOTTISH Sheep and goat Movement document
Post by: PDO_Lamb on July 15, 2011, 09:23:53 am

I think you can still use up your old pad but will have to fill out the separate health declaration that is included on the new forms. If you have run out contact SAMU

Title: Re: New SCOTTISH Sheep and goat Movement document
Post by: Rosemary on July 15, 2011, 03:50:56 pm

The pad I got when I registered the flock will do all my life  ;D We don't send sheep to market really, but we download the ones with the Food Chain Information declaration if we are.

Title: Re: New SCOTTISH Sheep and goat Movement document
Post by: Anke on July 16, 2011, 10:08:30 pm

I have just started to use my new one, with the old one still being more than half empty/unused... I just hope they don't think I have sold these forms on e-bay (and come down on me like a ton of bricks).... but it just seems easier to not have to print out extra stuff for sending the lambs/hoggets off.

And I also thought that I now have to identify my goats individually if taking them to a show - no space on the old froms for that.

Title: Re: New SCOTTISH Sheep and goat Movement document
Post by: pikilily on July 16, 2011, 10:57:55 pm

I was told by SAMU that the old books were to be discarded no matter whether they have been mostly used up or only a few sheets taken.
ET

Title: Re: New SCOTTISH Sheep and goat Movement document
Post by: Rosemary on July 17, 2011, 09:11:10 am

SAMU must have forgotten me as I haven't had anything from them  ::)

Title: Re: New SCOTTISH Sheep and goat Movement document
Post by: robert waddell on July 17, 2011, 11:33:58 am

they must have forgotten us as well
without seeing this form     from what you have said     the only addition is the food chain conformity      they wont accept animal for slaughter without one :farmer:

Title: Re: New SCOTTISH Sheep and goat Movement document
Post by: shep53 on July 17, 2011, 01:29:45 pm

The big change is the requirement to record individual identifications of any sheep or goat born in 2010 or 2011, markets and abattoirs will do this for you ,private sales or as ANKE says shows need you to record tag no's and the new documents have a section for this. If you haven't received the new movement book then have you not also received the new holding register???

Title: Re: New SCOTTISH Sheep and goat Movement document
Post by: pikilily on July 17, 2011, 02:12:12 pm

Yep, thats true too!! New lovely Orange holding register...bah!!
My house is listing to the port with the weight of all the documentation, new and old...all the records that have to be kept for years, decades, centuries....all with about four or five entries in each!!  :-\ :-\

Emma T

Title: Re: New SCOTTISH Sheep and goat Movement document
Post by: pikilily on July 17, 2011, 02:14:43 pm

Just to be helpful, cos its sitting here;  and for those who couldnt be bothered raking around for the number... :-\
SAMU-- 0845 6017597
Emma T