The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Roxy on June 27, 2012, 11:35:56 am
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Little Blue asked me about this on another thread, so started a new one for anyone who also may be wondering the same thing!!
I have now two separate holdings as such with the new land. Wanting to move the goats, I enquired about an additional CPH number, and was told by Animal Health that so long as my other holding is 5 miles or closer, then I can just use my current number. As I have said, we can actually see the fields from our current holding, and as the crow flies - as in over the fields, its probably 3 miles.
We drove from one place to the other, going in two different ways, as obviously road distance will be more. One was dead on 5 miles, and the other 4.9 miles. Therefore, I meet the criteria for using just one number. As to being in two different counties, yes, technically I would have a different area health, but assume as my main holding is in Derbyshire, that will do. This must happen a lot here, as we border, Lancs, Cheshire, Derbyshire, S Yorks, and Staffs, so livestock owners must regularly take livestock from farm to farm etc and maybe go through two counties and back in just a few minutes!!!
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But wouldn't the land you have just bought already have a CPH number with it? It is actually very useful to have two CPH numbers to play with, especially in Scotland where the standstill is 13 days rather than 6 as in England!
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The property I bought already had a CPH no but I was told I needed to apply for my own CPH and couldn't used the one that the previous owners had.
Sally
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No, the CPH number is non transferable - you have to have your own.
Believe it or not, there are plenty of people around with livestock who do not have a CPH number. I suppose they escape the system - never having had a number no one will even know they have any animals!!