Dead stock incineraton / options ?

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
Have you got plenty heat lamps and tubes? Think they might survive outside after a couple of days under the lamp.

Dont put the sh!ts up me :confused:




Seriously, I'm actually hoping this cold front moving in this week dumps 2ft of snow... apart for 2 hard day's last week, a wee 'storm' in December and a nice 10 days of frost in November... we have not had a winter yet.

Mother nature needs to get it out of her system before March :sour:
 

bobajob

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Sw Scotland
Straying off topic, but feeling like a bit of a rant :rolleyes:.

But is this not what we have been saying about farming in this country re Brexit/ sheep prices potentially going down/ reducing subs- we will have to compete with the rest of the world, farmers need to make there business better etc etc and here is an example of us spending £1000's a year as an industry in dead stock collections.

I remember reading about a big dairy farm in florida where they pushed the dead stock into the slurry lagoons and the crocodiles tided them up :eek::eek:.

I think its the same with sheep, in other countries the wolves etc clean them up.

By the way I dont want to see dead carcases lying all over the countryside, but burying is good enough for us humans but not livestock!
 
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bovine

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Location
North
here is an example of us spending £1000's a year as an industry in dead stock collections.

How many of you are working closely with your vets to reduce that number? What proportion of them do you know conclusively what they died from?

I did a health plan review this week for a guy with 600 ewes and in the last 12 months he's lost 3 adults.
 
Appreciate the point that to be economical you need to reduce your losses, but whilst unscientific, when your lucks out your lucks out. Sister lost 5 with heart attacks shearing last year, been in the night before, lambs on them I guess around 7 weeks so the ewes wouldn't have been fat. At times what do you do?
 

bovine

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Location
North
We had our first ever die during shearing last year, well started fitting half way through and actually died a few feet off shearing board, so what actually would it have died of?
no idea without a PM, and even then not always conclusive. I've seen anaemic sheep drop down dead from acute fluke and haemonchus (barbers pole worm). The lack of red blood cells means they can't cope with extra stress.
 

bovine

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Location
North
Pale membranes. Tires easily. Can even collapse. Sometimes seemingly sudden death.

Extra stress and oxygen demand kills them as they can't move enough oxygen. Too hot. Gathering. Handling. etc
 
Take your point, but when your shearing just shy of 1500 over a couple of days, filling pen on your own when jabbing some bunches of lambs and then its your only loss until a wrong in the bag ewe dies a couple of months later you cant warrant and get to everything
 

pine_guy

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Location
North Cumbria
I priced it up once for horses and it could have been quite ludicrous, but my Mrs pointed out to me that you have to be compassionate and understanding when dealing with people's dearly departed pets, which ruled me straight out :ROFLMAO:

Thered one near me that does that. £700 for individual cremation and ashes in a nice wooden display box.

So does that include/account for removal of said dead horse from the stable? Think there is a good thread about it on here :whistle::LOL::LOL:
 

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