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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: bekka@dh on July 28, 2014, 10:44:33 am

Title: pigs off to abbotoir tomorrow - last minute check list!
Post by: bekka@dh on July 28, 2014, 10:44:33 am
Ok, the two boys are off to the abbotoir tomorrow morning :( and I am just getting everything ready so hopefully it will go smoothly as this is our first time.....

Can anyone tell me what I may be missing please?!
- online movement licence and print out for haulier (me)
- tagged with 1 metal ear tag each last night - and still on this morning!
- practised loading into the trailer 6 times now and all goes smoothly

Anything obvious I have missed out?!
Thank you!


Title: Re: pigs off to abbotoir tomorrow - last minute check list!
Post by: Fowgill Farm on July 28, 2014, 11:21:03 am
I always print two AML's - one to take with me & leave and one for my file at home.
Hope all goes smoothly
 :fc: Mandy :pig:
Title: Re: pigs off to abbotoir tomorrow - last minute check list!
Post by: Eve on July 28, 2014, 04:21:25 pm
Depending on the kind of abattoir you're using and how busy it is there: the feed bucket to rouse the boys with after their journey (mine tend to fall asleep in the trailer - though a very competent man there usually unloads them for us).


Put their breakfast in the trailer and they'll load themselves  ;)
Title: Re: pigs off to abbotoir tomorrow - last minute check list!
Post by: Sbom on July 28, 2014, 07:28:30 pm
A list for the butcher with your name, number and how you want it cutting?
Title: Re: pigs off to abbotoir tomorrow - last minute check list!
Post by: fiestyredhead331 on July 28, 2014, 08:59:23 pm
freezer space for when they come home again  :excited:
Title: Re: pigs off to abbotoir tomorrow - last minute check list!
Post by: Marches Farmer on July 29, 2014, 02:06:34 pm
Should take feed, water and a bucket (or in our case an old frying pan you can slide in and hold onto the handle of) in case of breakdown.