- Location
- Cheshire
Got to be 6/7 years ago. I bought 75 Char x stores in Bentham. One of the yard lads came to me a few minutes later “don’t want to worry you but 1 of those last pen is struck. We’ve put that lot in a separate pen to the rest.” when sale had finished I went down and found 12 that had small maggots in the wool. Safe to say I somewhat flipped my lid about it. Started off telling the auction they could have them back, shouldn’t be selling struck sheep. What if they hadn’t noticed, they’d all been piled on a wagon and sent south? Another full warm day and a couple of them would have been bad. In the end I clipped them out with my battery hand shears and the mart paid for the crovect to treat them all before I loaded them. No idea if they recouped the cost from the farmer.I bought a load of struck ewe lambs one year. Cost me £10 less and vender had to pay me £5/head to treat them.