Few areas of on-farm decision making are as poorly understood as the point at which an injured animal stops being a candidate for the food chain and becomes fallen stock. Casualty slaughter fallen stock collection sits directly on that line, and getting the decision wrong costs either the value of the carcass or a serious […]
Organic Farm Fallen Stock Collection and Certification Record Keeping
Organic certification adds a layer of scrutiny to almost every input and output on a holding, and organic farm fallen stock collection is one of the areas where inspectors expect the paperwork to be complete rather than approximately right. Organic standards do not create a separate disposal route for dead animals, but they do put […]
Farm Access Fallen Stock Collection Through Autumn and Winter Conditions
The single most common reason a collection is delayed is not the collector and not the farmer, it is the ground between them. Farm access fallen stock collection becomes markedly harder from October onwards, when tracks that carried a loaded vehicle all summer turn to mud and field gateways stop being usable at all. Martlands […]
Alpaca Fallen Stock Collection for North West Camelid Keepers
Alpacas and llamas have gone from curiosity to established smallholding livestock across Lancashire, Cheshire and the Wirral in little more than a decade, and alpaca fallen stock collection is now a regular part of our week rather than an occasional call. Many camelid keepers come to livestock from a companion animal background and are genuinely […]
Weaned Lamb Fallen Stock Collection Through the Autumn Store Period
Weaning breaks the single most protective relationship in a sheep flock, and the weeks that follow it produce a mortality pattern every flockmaster recognises. Weaned lamb fallen stock collection is a routine autumn requirement across the hill and upland flocks of Lancashire, Cumbria and North Wales, and the losses are rarely dramatic enough to prompt […]
Bought In Cattle Fallen Stock Collection After the Autumn Store Sales
The autumn store sales move enormous numbers of cattle around the North of England in a matter of weeks, and bought in cattle fallen stock collection is the unwelcome sequel for a proportion of the buyers. Animals assembled from several holdings, mixed at a market, transported and then housed in a strange building are under […]
Silage Feeding Fallen Stock Collection Through the Housing Transition
The change from grazed grass to a conserved winter ration is one of the most abrupt dietary events in the farming year, and silage feeding fallen stock collection is a predictable consequence of getting it wrong. Acidosis, bloat, listeriosis and clostridial disease all cluster in the fortnight either side of housing, and the animals lost […]
Slurry Gas Fallen Stock Collection and Autumn Tank Emptying Losses
Every autumn, before the closed spreading period begins, slurry stores across the North West are stirred and emptied, and every autumn that work kills livestock. Slurry gas fallen stock collection is a grim but necessary part of the season, because hydrogen sulphide released during mixing can drop a shed full of cattle in minutes. Martlands […]
Storm Losses Fallen Stock Collection After Autumn Weather Events
Named storms now arrive on the North West coast from late September onwards, and storm losses fallen stock collection is one of the least planned-for parts of farm emergency response. Lightning strike, flooding, collapsed buildings, wind-thrown trees and animals drowned in swollen ditches all produce sudden mortality, often in groups, often on ground a vehicle […]
Liver Fluke Fallen Stock Collection Across the North West Autumn
Autumn is the point in the farming year when liver fluke stops being a background worry and starts killing animals, and liver fluke fallen stock collection becomes a real operational requirement on wet ground across Lancashire, Cheshire and Cumbria. Martlands is a family-run, DEFRA approved business based in Burscough, and our fallen stock and ABP […]