Kirkby Stephen fallen stock collection has to work around the realities of farming at the head of the Eden valley. Hill ground, long farm tracks, fell gates and roads that can close in a single winter night all shape how a dead ewe or suckler cow gets from the farm to a licensed plant. Martlands […]
Ulverston Fallen Stock Collection Across Furness and Cartmel
Ulverston sits at the heart of Furness farming. The town’s auction mart draws dairy, beef and sheep from across Low Furness, the fells toward Coniston and the Cartmel peninsula, and the A590 links it all to the M6. Ulverston fallen stock collection needs to reach farms that range from productive lowland dairy units near Urswick […]
Calf Pneumonia Fallen Stock Collection – Handling Winter Calf Losses
Pneumonia is one of the most common causes of death in housed calves, and the losses cluster in late autumn and winter when calves are indoors, groups are mixed and the weather swings between mild and damp and hard frost. When a calf dies, calf pneumonia fallen stock collection needs to be quick, correctly documented […]
Blackburn Fallen Stock Collection for Moorland and Valley Farms
Farming around Blackburn sits in a tight band between town and moor. Within a few miles of the ring road you can be on a hill farm above Tockholes, a suckler herd at Mellor or a sheep holding on the edge of Darwen Moor. Blackburn fallen stock collection has to work for all of them, […]
Clostridial Disease Fallen Stock Collection – Handling Sudden Deaths in Cattle and Sheep
Clostridial disease fallen stock collection is a job farmers across the North West face most often in autumn, when blackleg, black disease, braxy and pulpy kidney can kill apparently healthy cattle and sheep with little or no warning. Martlands is a family-run, DEFRA approved collector based in Burscough, Lancashire, providing fallen stock and ABP collection […]
Mold Fallen Stock Collection Across the Clwydian Range and Flintshire
Mold sits where the Flintshire lowlands meet the Clwydian Range, and the farming around the town reflects that mix. Hill sheep graze the slopes below Moel Famau, while beef and dairy herds work the lower land running east toward Deeside. Mold fallen stock collection has to cover both, from a ewe lost on a steep […]
Knutsford Fallen Stock Collection for Dairy Farms and Estates
The farmland around Knutsford sits in the heart of the Cheshire plain, where dairy herds graze heavy, productive pasture between Tabley, Mobberley, Plumley and the Peovers. Knutsford fallen stock collection here is mostly about cattle, from dairy cows and youngstock to suckler herds, but the area’s estates and equestrian yards bring horses and sheep into […]
Housed Poultry Fallen Stock Collection Through the Avian Influenza Season
When the autumn migration brings wild waterfowl back to the estuaries and mosses of the North West, the risk of avian influenza rises and many flocks spend weeks or months indoors. Housed poultry fallen stock collection then becomes part of the daily routine on broiler, layer and free-range units, and it has to be handled […]
Wigan Fallen Stock Collection for Farms, Smallholdings and Livery Yards
Wigan fallen stock collection serves a borough where farming and town sit right next to each other. Cattle and sheep graze within sight of housing estates at Aspull and Winstanley, horses are kept in paddocks along almost every lane, and hobby keepers run pigs and poultry on smallholdings from Shevington Moor to the mosslands around […]
Autumn Calving Fallen Stock Collection – A Guide for Dairy and Suckler Herds
Autumn calving fallen stock collection is something every block-calving herd should plan for before the first cow calves, not after the first loss. Across the dairy country of Cheshire and Lancashire, and on suckler farms that calve in the autumn to sell heavier stores the following year, September to November concentrates a large share of […]