No I don't think it is either, not sure people should be sending animals that are heavily pregnant to slaughter though.
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It's not illegal to slaughter pregnant stock.
It's illegal to transport animals in the last trimester of pregnancy. But perfectly acceptable to slaughter pregnant animals.
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I got in fair bit of trouble last year when an in lamb blackie cull ewe went through Pickstocks in mid March. I hadn’t a clue it was in lamb.
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How far along was she? Did they point you to any piece of law/legislation?
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Just got to hope they lamb in the market then
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Thainstone pull them out and sell as inlamb hoggs.
Not sure what the law is but qms can do and say as they like
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Sod offView attachment 1170938Enough grass for ewes and lambs?
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With bells on
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Well some of the ones I still had here started lambing naturally 2 days later. Pure blackie lambs.
I had to refund the cost of the ewe, and got a phone call from APHA and a bulling from TS about it.
I genuinely had no idea they were in lamb. I bought them in mid December out of the fat to graze.
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So they shouldn't have been transported that far in lamb. But I can't find anything that says they can't slaughtered.
I'm sure I've seen Facebook posts about the government slaughtering reactor cattle up to 8 months in calf.
It's fair enough if you genuinely don't know they are in lamb. But it's not on sending stock you know is heavily in lamb/calf. For starters imagine what the public would say if they knew it was happening.
Bit different if its for welfare reasons if there is something wrong with the mother but she still shouldn't be travelling heavily pregnant.
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It’s definitely not on. I did hear a while back that the slaughtermen at Pickstocks Ashby had walked out one day. They were killing a ruck of kiwi type cows and the calves were right on the edge of being viable. That sort of thing is just not on
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I pd some fat heifers that the bull got in with. A 3 month calve is the size of a lamb. I injected them and that's what fell out. 1 by mistake went and I never heard about it.
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These were 3/4 weeks from natural birth.
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They like to keep that bit quiet…
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I know someone years ago said his dad got a telling so it's not a new thing.
I just posted what I had recently more for anyone thinking what they can get away with.
I'm sure iv seen on this forum folk bulling fattening heifers to kill. They fatten and don't make a mess of the straw. Not what I agree with but must happen.
You’re forgetting that it’s only us that they like to follow the rules!! You are quite right about them slaughtering TB cows upto eight months in calf, I’ve had one or two heated debates with them about it