Category: Fallen Stock Collection

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bringing stock in off grass is one of the two or three genuine pressure points in the livestock calendar, and the mortality pattern in the fortnight either side of housing is quite different to the one you see in midsummer. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection across the North West from a DEFRA […]

Autumn calving concentrates a herd’s highest-risk animals into a few intense weeks, and the resulting mortality is the single largest fallen stock workload many dairy and suckler units generate all year. Martlands provides DEFRA approved fallen stock and ABP collection to herds across Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and Cumbria, and calf mortality fallen stock collection during […]

An animal that dies in a livestock trailer creates a problem that nobody on the road is well placed to solve, and the questions that follow are about responsibility as much as disposal. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection to farms, hauliers and market operators across the North West, and livestock transport fallen […]

A dispersal sale is the end of a farming business and usually the end of a family’s connection with a holding, and it is not a moment anybody wants to spend thinking about waste regulations. It is nonetheless the point at which several years of accumulated obligation comes due at once. Martlands provides licensed fallen […]