procedure for dead animal

amacca

Is there are set procedure for dealing with a dead animal (calf)

ring collection service - do you have to notify anyone else/keep tags?

bbam

Jenus your doing well not to know that!

Atilathehun

amacca wrote: »

Is there are set procedure for dealing with a dead animal (calf)

ring collection service - do you have to notify anyone else/keep tags?

Roll the animal on its back. Pinch its nostrils. Inhale deeply. Place your mouth over the animals mouth, and exhale. Repeat as necessary, till the animal stands up and runs away.:pac:

redzerologhlen

amacca wrote: »

Is there are set procedure for dealing with a dead animal (calf)

ring collection service - do you have to notify anyone else/keep tags?

Tags stay on their ears just bring the calf or get the calf collected by the knackery and keep the docket they give you and record it on your herd register. Don't forget the card!

amacca

bbam wrote: »

Jenus your doing well not to know that!

haven't had one in four years since I started back rearing them

only had one dead animal of any age in the 20 years before that on the family farm - at that stage you just called the lorry man and he gave you a lottery ticket for your trouble

Cran

amacca wrote: »

haven't had one in four years since I started back rearing them

only had one dead animal of any age in the 20 years before that on the family farm - at that stage you just called the lorry man and he gave you a lottery ticket for your trouble

You obviously don't keep any sheep:D

amacca

Cran wrote: »

You obviously don't keep any sheep:D

nope....had a small flock a long time ago

drove my father and myself demented......swore I'd never keep the wooly b@stards even if I was faced with starvation.

snowman707

bbam wrote: »

Jenus your doing well not to know that!

Atilathehun wrote: »

Roll the animal on its back. Pinch its nostrils. Inhale deeply. Place your mouth over the animals mouth, and exhale. Repeat as necessary, till the animal stands up and runs away.:pac:

ffs op asks a genuine query, and gets this sh1t,

whelan1

came back from a night away, had some one milking for me... when i checked dry cows- just a few left to calve- there was one calving , had been for a while , calf was dead:( always when you go away you come back to trouble... no one will do the job as good as ya do it yourself:cool:

johngalway

amacca wrote: »

Is there are set procedure for dealing with a dead animal (calf)

ring collection service - do you have to notify anyone else/keep tags?

Last calf we lost we were told to put it into a covered barrel to keep the flies off. Can't remember what the paperwork entailed mind.

bbam

snowman707 wrote: »

ffs op asks a genuine query, and gets this sh1t,

Relax there.
No offence intended.

goat2

i have two questions, i am not a farmer as you will realise by my questions,

1 are people allowed to leave a sheep that died in situe in the field there to rot,
2 who is responsible for cattle and sheep ruining others gardens, is it the owner who rents out his lands, or the farmer who rents it from the owner and leaves his animals all over the place, no fencing in and bad fencing in.

rancher

goat2 wrote: »

i have two questions, i am not a farmer as you will realise by my questions,

1 are people allowed to leave a sheep that died in situe in the field there to rot,
2 who is responsible for cattle and sheep ruining others gardens, is it the owner who rents out his lands, or the farmer who rents it from the owner and leaves his animals all over the place, no fencing in and bad fencing in.

1 No one is allowed to leave dead animals to rot, report it to local District veterinary office or dept of agriculture.
2 The owner of the cattle/sheep are responsible for the damage they do, a farmer has to maintain hundreds of metres of boundary, but a lazy house owner who won't maintain a few metres of proper fence around their house deserves all the hardship they get

goat2

well the farmer is making money from same farm, the neighbours have their veg gardens and nothing else, yes we wire in our places, but it is the farmers place to keep his herd on his land, i should hope, as they are on the road also, cars up and down that road, also one of his animals went through a neighbours window two yrs ago, there is no respect for the neighbours,
but we have learned a new trick, open gate into meadow, leave in animals and presto you see him doing something about it,

pakalasa

goat2 wrote: »

...but we have learned a new trick, open gate into meadow, leave in animals and presto you see him doing something about it...

Don't do this. Farmer may have a few shotgun tricks of his own.....:rolleyes:

goat2

what do you mean by shotgun tricks of his own, so you would leave someones cattle on the road after dark, when you know they are not around themselves, are we to leave them on road, or just open the farmers gate and leave in his animals, by doing so we are saving his animals from getting hit by a vehicle, and so saving him a packet in damages. it is an animal welfare thing really,

lefthooker

Mum was sweeping a few chippings at the entrance this morning and noticed a SUV type stopped up the road and the driver peering over the ditch. Anyway the SUV pulls up beside mum and drivers window rolls down. The middle aged lady driver says that we have 1 dead cow and another near dead in the field and although she's not from the countryside she loves animals and doesn't think its right to leave dead animals in full view for everyone. Mum asked her what she was on about and she says you have two cows lying on their sides near the ditch, there's no movement from 1 and the other is just twitching. "Strange" says mum, "I only see 1 cow up there and she's sitting up chewing her cud". Sheepish was how mum described her apology before her Foxrock Farmers wagon moved on.
Granted both are older cows and not in top condition (they're dry and out to fatten) but I wish someone who obviously has never seen a cow sunning herself would keep they're stupid opinions to themselves:mad::mad::mad: She's lucky it was mum she decided to impart her wisdom on and not me