The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Cyberhell on April 04, 2013, 08:04:06 pm
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What are the rules re: walking goats off your land? Ours will be (large) back garden housed but there's a lovely green on our estate with plenty of hawthorn and we were wondering about taking them for a walk onto there every so often. Is that allowed, or frowned upon? Do you get into recording movement in record book if you walk them?
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My rams regularly take themselves for a walk onto neighbouring veg plots! I would have thought ok but you could always check with animal health. If farmers can walk their sheep etc down lanes etc i don't see it being a problem. You wouldn't need fill out movement forms but I would just make a note in your record boom when you took them out.
I use several fields within my village and I spoke to animal health and the were fine about moving without notifying cos within 5 miles of holding.
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Two of my kids went to a home in Inverness - they spoke to animal health and are allowed to walk them on the canal tow path as long as they keep records - it causes great hilarity when an oncoming dog off the lead realizes it's not going to get the better of this creature!!
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I thought you needed a licence to walk goats these days. obtainable from TS you have to set out a route and stick to it if I remember correctly.
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In England you have to register all movements on to and off of your holding. I have 3 separate parcels of land all under the same holding. I often move the sheep and goats on foot between these and no record is needed. But if I were to move them to my neighbors field which is closer but under a different CPH I would need to fill in a licence ::)
Best bet is to ask AH and get a walking licence I reckon, then you know you are safe :thumbsup:
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The regs used to be that you contacted animal health for one of two types of licence.
One where you were unlikely to meet any other farm stock on a specified route, and the other where the animal would be mixing with other farm animals.
So I would contact council animal health.
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I used to walk mine to a playing field at the end of our road, conveniently forgetting about movement forms. There were several near mishaps with cars going past whose drivers couldn't believe their eyes.
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Yes, there are animal walking licences you can get. Not too hard to get them I believe.
Beth