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recording animal movement
Andrew Heggie wrote in message ... On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:02:34 -0000, "Jim Webster" wrote: every bovine animal has to have two ear tags, its passport, every movement off one holding onto another has to be reported. Even Zoos have to do this. How is this policed and what are the regulations for other cloven hooved animals? I brought back in the x posting because Gordon and others might find this interesting "Trading Standards Officers" turn up at auction marts and check animals, so most auction marts police it anyway to cover themselves. The "Rural Payments agency have a rolling programme of random checks, which intent to check every farm at least once in five years but more often for larger farms. These checks are reckonned by the RPA to take an average of about three days, most happen at a couple of hours notice, and every animal has its eartag checked, plus they go through all your movement records andwill checkthem against other peoples records. Various bodies such as Trading Standards departments can turn up (an do) unannounced to see you movement documents, it the documents are not up to date you are locked down until the authorities are happy with them, which can take six months. Then there are fines and penalties. I have an ulterior motive for wishing to know a bit more following a dead cow arriving on some land near me. It strikes me it should easily be possible to trace it, even in the absence of tags. that is tricky because you would have to check an awful lot of farms to find someone with one missing, and that person might well have had it stolen or reported it stolen. Should I be concerned if I can see cattle with tags missing, apart from being an expense to the farmer is it serving a purpose, plainly like other legislation avoiding complying could be a useful cost saving the over legitimate farmer. virtually impossible to avoid compliance in the longer term. The worst offenders are dairy farmers whose cattle never move. They therefore barely need tags as dairy farmers herds have more ID than you could reasonably expect anyway. Dairy farmers tend to be the ones frantically phoning for replacement tags because an old cow is booked in on to OTMS and at slaughter ALL tags have to be absolutely correct. Farmer to farmer deals are possible without proper tags but otherwise you cannot move animals who are incorrectly tagged. -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' AJH |
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