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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: princesspiggy on June 16, 2012, 09:43:18 am

Title: standstill
Post by: princesspiggy on June 16, 2012, 09:43:18 am
quick question, does the 20 day standstill still apply if they are going direct to slaughter?
thanks  ;)
Title: Re: standstill
Post by: HappyHippy on June 16, 2012, 10:39:52 am
Nope, no standstill restriction on slaughter animals mrs.
HTH
Karen x
Title: Re: standstill
Post by: princesspiggy on June 16, 2012, 10:50:55 am
great, and that would apply to being taken via cheale, as opposed to myself taking em direct to abattoir?
Title: Re: standstill
Post by: HappyHippy on June 16, 2012, 11:14:00 am
Yup, I would say so  ;)
Title: Re: standstill
Post by: princesspiggy on June 16, 2012, 01:41:09 pm
thankyou, makes things a bit easier now,
been getting tangled with red tape. with animals coming and going its bin a bit tricky.
wont be able to get to doune show as pigs arriving the week before, argh
is the isolation facility 2metres from any other livestock or just other pigs? with escaping piglets,  i dont think il get one here unless i fix all the 2 inch gaps a piglet can squeeze thru, lol

 ::) ::)
Title: Re: standstill
Post by: robert waddell on June 16, 2012, 02:27:36 pm
yes 2 meters from other livestock :farmer:
Title: Re: standstill
Post by: princesspiggy on June 16, 2012, 04:28:26 pm
thankyou xx  :wave:
Title: Re: standstill
Post by: Beewyched on June 26, 2012, 09:11:57 pm

is the isolation facility 2metres from any other livestock or just other pigs? with escaping piglets,  i dont think il get one here unless i fix all the 2 inch gaps a piglet can squeeze thru, lol

 ::) ::)
The biggest problem I had with our Isolation area was our free-range chucks  ::)  So this year our approved facility is indoors, with a full-length door & glass taken out of the windows (for air circulation) & replaced with old oven racks (to stop the blasted chucks from flying in)   :love: :pig: :love:
Title: Re: standstill
Post by: princesspiggy on June 26, 2012, 09:30:41 pm
i have a plan now.  ::) ::)
i was going to use a small paddock, but with escaping piglets, it would be a problem. plus its a bit muddy.
i have a walled concrete area away from everything else which was actually saved for something else but i def need an isolation area as this year has been a nightmare trying to buy and sell livestock. i couldnt fit in the shows i wanted either. i will get an arc or such like to put in it.




i never thought about free range birds, but the only free range ones we had have been cooked or snaffled by mr fox.
Title: Re: standstill
Post by: Beewyched on June 26, 2012, 10:03:24 pm
Aha  ;)  HTH  :eyelashes: