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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: DartmoorLiz on August 06, 2017, 05:23:26 pm

Title: lost pig number
Post by: DartmoorLiz on August 06, 2017, 05:23:26 pm

Can anyone tell me how to find out my pig heard number?  I've lost the paperwork and can't find the number.

Title: Re: lost pig number
Post by: Marches Farmer on August 06, 2017, 06:38:11 pm

If you go on the eaml2 website and start to put in your details for a pig movement it should come up with a pre-populated form which will show your herd number.  You can them cancel the movement request.

Title: Re: lost pig number
Post by: DartmoorLiz on August 07, 2017, 03:52:41 pm

Thanks MF,


This would have been all the information I needed if I had ever registered the heard mark online. 


Just to fill in the blanks in case someone else has the same problem ... I found a letter from the Animal and Plant Health Agency that I had been sent to me because the people I bought the pigs from had registered their movement of the pigs to me.  A quick phone call (number 0300 200301) gave me the heard number and confirmation that this 6 figure number is the slap mark for all the pigs.  I have now registered this online with eaml2.


I'm now going to e-bay to buy a slapper ;)

Title: Re: lost pig number
Post by: greenbeast on August 07, 2017, 07:30:12 pm

Quote from: DartmoorLiz on August 07, 2017, 03:52:41 pm

I'm now going to e-bay to buy a slapper ;)

whatever you do, don't put the slapper on the roof of the trailer..... and forget it's there....

Title: Re: lost pig number
Post by: Marches Farmer on August 09, 2017, 10:52:42 am

Is it a six-figure number?  Our herd mark is along the lines of AB 1234. 

Title: Re: lost pig number
Post by: mowhaugh on August 17, 2017, 02:23:19 pm

If you ring your local animal health office and tell them your holding number, they'll tell you what it is. As Marches Farmer said, it will be 2 letters, 4 numbers (mines RQ 0209!)