If you keep livestock anywhere around Bury and need a dependable, fully licensed Bury fallen stock collection service, Martlands can remove the animal quickly and handle every part of the process correctly. We are a family-run fallen stock and ABP collection business based in Burscough, Lancashire, registered with the National Fallen Stock Company and approved by DEFRA to serve farms and smallholdings across Bury and the wider Greater Manchester area. When an animal dies on your land the clock starts on a legal duty that sits with you, the keeper, and calling a registered, DEFRA approved collector straight away is the simplest way to discharge that duty properly and keep your records straight.
Bury Fallen Stock Collection And Your Legal Duty Of Care
Farmers and smallholders in Bury are responsible in law for the safe disposal of their own fallen stock. On-farm burial and burning of livestock has been illegal across the UK since 2003, a ban introduced to stop disease entering the soil and watercourses and to protect both human and animal health. Under the Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2013 you have a duty of care to arrange collection without undue delay, in practice within twenty-four hours of the animal being found. For the great majority of keepers a licensed collector is the only lawful route, and it is also the route that produces the records an inspection will ask to see. There is no longer a general exception for burying a dead animal at the bottom of a field, and an environmental health officer who finds an unrecorded disposal can take enforcement action against the holding.
Every Martlands collection is covered by a Commercial Document and, where relevant, a Waste Transfer Note. These are not optional extras. They are the evidence that the animal left your holding through a licensed operator and was handled correctly, and they are exactly what a Red Tractor assessor or a DEFRA officer expects to find in your records. Holding that paperwork is the difference between a straightforward audit and an awkward one, which is why we provide it as standard on every job rather than only when it is asked for. Retaining your Commercial Documents alongside your medicine and movement records gives a Bury holding a clean, defensible compliance trail.
Which ABP Category Applies To Your Animal
Not all fallen stock falls into the same animal by-product category, and the category determines how the carcass must be stored, transported and processed. Martlands is licensed to collect and process all three categories, so a single phone call covers whatever you are dealing with. As a general rule, fallen ruminants such as cattle, sheep and goats are handled as Category 1 material because of the controls that surround TSE and BSE, while fallen pigs and poultry are more often Category 2. An animal that has been euthanised by a vet using a barbiturate drug is always Category 1 high-risk material and must never enter a general waste or rendering stream, because the residues make it hazardous. If you are unsure which category your situation falls under, our team will confirm it when you call rather than leaving you to guess, and because we hold all three licences there is no risk of arranging a collection only to find your collector cannot legally take the animal.
BSE And TSE Testing For Cattle Over 48 Months
If you lose a beef or dairy animal over forty-eight months of age, that carcass falls within the national BSE surveillance programme and must be sampled before it is processed. Martlands is a DEFRA approved sampling centre, so we can carry out the required BSE testing of fallen cattle as part of the same collection rather than sending you elsewhere. The test involves taking a brain-stem sample from the animal once it reaches our facility, and the carcass is held until the result is confirmed. For a Bury cattle keeper this matters in two ways. It keeps you compliant with the surveillance rules, and it means a single phone call deals with the collection and the testing together, with no separate arrangement to organise and no scramble to find an approved sampling site at short notice.
Safe Storage Before Collection On Bury’s Moorland Farms
How you hold a carcass in the hours before we arrive matters just as much as the collection itself, particularly on the exposed holdings above the town. Keep the animal away from other livestock, away from any watercourse, and where possible on hard standing or under cover so that fluids are contained and scavengers and birds are kept off it. Our guidance on the safe on-farm storage of fallen stock sets out the practical steps in full, and they are worth following on every holding, not just the larger units. Good storage protects your remaining stock, keeps the collection straightforward, and reduces the biosecurity risk while you wait. In warm weather that risk rises sharply, because decomposition and fly activity accelerate within hours, which is the single biggest reason to book collection as soon as you discover a death rather than leaving it until the end of the day.
Same-Day Collection Across Bury And Greater Manchester
Bury sits at the edge of the West Pennine Moors, where upland sheep grazing around Holcombe, Tottington, Affetside and Edgworth meets the lowland dairy and mixed holdings closer to the Irwell valley and the Bradshaw and Harwood farms to the north. The town is well connected by the M66 and M62, which is why a Burscough-based operator can still reach Bury holdings the same day. Same-day collection is available for fallen stock, and our rapid-response fleet is booked and tracked through the KoLeCt system so that your request is logged, scheduled and documented from the moment you call. Because our routes already cross this corner of the North West regularly, you are placed on a genuine local collection schedule rather than waiting on a long-distance national operator routing a vehicle up from elsewhere. Our farm and fallen stock collection covers cattle, sheep, pigs, horses and smaller livestock, and Bury is one of many areas we serve within our Greater Manchester fallen stock collection region.
Serving The Farming Towns Around Bury
Because our routes already run across this part of the North West, the surrounding towns are covered just as quickly as Bury itself. To the north, in the Rossendale valley fringe, we collect across Ramsbottom fallen stock collection, while to the east and the moorland edge we cover Littleborough fallen stock collection, Rochdale fallen stock collection and Heywood fallen stock collection. To the west the routes run through Westhoughton fallen stock collection and Horwich fallen stock collection, and neighbouring Bolton fallen stock collection completes a tight cluster of holdings that share the same upland and lowland mix. That density means we can often combine collections across the district and keep response times short for every farm on the route.
Arranging A Collection In Bury
Dealing with a dead animal is never a welcome job, but it does not have to be a complicated one. With Martlands you get a licensed, DEFRA approved collector that handles the removal, the legally required documentation and any BSE sampling in one visit, leaving your records straight and your holding clear. We are members of the National Fallen Stock Company, we hold the relevant Waste Carrier, site and animal by-product licences, and every collection is fully documented for your own audit trail. To book a collection or talk through which category your situation falls under, call the team on 01704 776977 and we will arrange a Bury fallen stock collection that meets your obligations in full.
