13 day standstill

sjewart

Member
Hi guys

I know iv asked similar in the past but can someone clarify this for me please.

Would taking a heifer and calf to mart on the 26th Sept and NOT selling her prevent me from presenting her for sale at another mart on the 9th Oct?

I calculate that as 13 days but can you not move her til day 14 if you see what I mean?
 

Fendt516profi

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
Ahh I wondered but checked your profile and couldn't see a location. Must be hard at this time of year juggling that standstill selling lambs drafts and culls and buying breeding ewes and tups
 

sjewart

Member
Ahh I wondered but checked your profile and couldn't see a location. Must be hard at this time of year juggling that standstill selling lambs drafts and culls and buying breeding ewes and tups
It's just the buying female sheep and cattle that poses a problem to me - or presumably bringing one unsold one home again.
 

Agrivator

Member
Hi guys

I know iv asked similar in the past but can someone clarify this for me please.

Would taking a heifer and calf to mart on the 26th Sept and NOT selling her prevent me from presenting her for sale at another mart on the 9th Oct?

I calculate that as 13 days but can you not move her til day 14 if you see what I mean?

I have always assumed that it is 13 clear days, and that you will only be able to move her on the 10th October at the earliest.

The irony is that we had the opportunity to have a 6 day standstill like England, but NFU Scotland concurred with a very concurrent Scottish Government to have 13 day standstill, just to be different.
 

sjewart

Member
I have always assumed that it is 13 clear days, and that you will only be able to move her on the 10th October at the earliest.

The irony is that we had the opportunity to have a 6 day standstill like England, but NFU Scotland concurred with a very concurrent Scottish Government to have 13 day standstill, just to be different.
Thanks, yes I agree the 10th is probably the correct date.

Ironic indeed.
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
The irony is that we had the opportunity to have a 6 day standstill like England, but NFU Scotland concurred with a very concurrent Scottish Government to have 13 day standstill, just to be different.

That seems to be the main purpose of devolution, even in places where common rules would be eminently more sensible.
 

Highland Mule

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Livestock Farmer
Have you got a neighbour who doesn’t move at this time of the year that you could use to hold the potentially returning animals? Get t he mart to put them back there rather than to yourself, and borrow a field from them for the 13 days?

Edit - scratch that, it’s the same beast.
 
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