Poultry production runs in cycles, and the end of each cycle produces a concentrated burst of animal by-product material that is quite different in character to the daily mortality a unit handles the rest of the time. Martlands is a DEFRA approved provider of fallen stock and ABP collection licensed for all three by-product categories, […]
Notifiable Disease Fallen Stock Collection and How It Works Alongside APHA
Most fallen stock is collected on a routine basis and nobody outside the holding needs to know about it. Occasionally a death raises a suspicion that changes the sequence entirely, and knowing what to do in the first thirty minutes is worth a great deal. Martlands operates as a licensed and DEFRA approved provider of […]
Multiple Livestock Losses Fallen Stock Collection When Several Animals Die at Once
Most fallen stock is handled one animal at a time, but every keeper eventually faces the morning when several are lying in the same field. Martlands provides DEFRA approved fallen stock and ABP collection with a rapid-response fleet operating from Burscough, and multiple livestock losses fallen stock collection is the situation where the difference between […]
Breeding Season Fallen Stock Collection for Flocks Preparing to Tup
The weeks running up to tupping are when a sheep enterprise handles its flock more intensively than at any point outside lambing, and handling reveals losses that would otherwise go unnoticed for weeks. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection to flocks from the Lancashire mosslands to the Cumbrian fells, and breeding season fallen […]
Harvest Season Fallen Stock Collection on Mixed and Arable Holdings
Late summer places a kind of pressure on mixed holdings that no other part of the farming year quite matches, and stock losses that happen while the combine is running have a habit of arriving at the worst possible moment. Martlands provides DEFRA approved fallen stock and ABP collection from a licensed base at Burscough […]
Bank Holiday Waste and ABP Collection and How to Plan Around the Summer Breaks
Bank holiday waste and ABP collection is something most farms and food businesses only think about when it catches them out, yet the British summer is punctuated by long weekends that disrupt routines just when warm weather is at its most demanding. The late May and August bank holidays, along with staff annual leave, can […]
Summer ABP Fly-Tipping and How Licensed Collection Protects Your Business
Summer ABP fly-tipping is a problem that rises every year with the warm weather, as higher waste volumes, stretched budgets and the temptation of a quick fix lead some to dump animal by-products illegally rather than dispose of them lawfully. For the food businesses, butchers and farms of the North West, the danger is twofold, […]
Poultry Heat Stress Mortality and Managing Summer Losses on Poultry Units
Poultry heat stress mortality is one of the sharpest summer risks in livestock farming, because birds are highly sensitive to heat and a single hot day, or a ventilation or power failure during one, can cause significant losses in a very short time. On the broiler and laying units of Lancashire, Cheshire and the wider […]
Transporting Animal By-Products in Hot Weather and Why It Demands Care
Transporting animal by-products in hot weather is a far more demanding task than moving the same material in winter, and it is an area where the rules and the practical realities of summer meet head on. By-products that are stable enough to move safely in cool conditions can leak, smell and deteriorate rapidly when the […]
ABP Storage in a Heatwave and Planning for Chiller Failure
ABP storage in a heatwave is where summer puts the most pressure on any business or farm that holds animal by-products before collection, because the warm months combine fast decomposition with the very real possibility of a chiller or freezer failing or a power cut striking at the worst moment. Animal by-products that are perfectly […]