Knackers Yard

[kholer19]

Hi sorry to bother you all but I have to write a short paper on Knackeries. I have been doing my research but I can't seem to find an absolute answer. One source says knackeries are for diseased animals unfit for human consumption and others say its for spent horses and they get turned into glue and other products. So my question.... what do you guys do with your sick and diseased cows pigs etc... and other animals? Do you send them to knackers yard like the 1st definition I came across or is it strictly for sick and spent horses ?

thank you in advanced.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

This may help:

http://www.nfsco.co.uk/

 

[freda]

This may help:

http://www.nfsco.co.uk/

Hi sorry to bother you all but I have to write a short paper on Knackeries. I have been doing my research but I can't seem to find an absolute answer. One source says knackeries are for diseased animals unfit for human consumption and others say its for spent horses and they get turned into glue and other products. So my question.... what do you guys do with your sick and diseased cows pigs etc... and other animals? Do you send them to knackers yard like the 1st definition I came across or is it strictly for sick and spent horses ?

thank you in advanced.

And this

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/animal-by-product-categories-site-approval-hygiene-and-disposal

 

[Flossie]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knacker

 

[Flossie]

Who knew they had their own association? Interesting read
http://www.lassa.org.uk/history-of-the-knackerman/

 

[matthew]

... and all the meat has to be stained now, after bits of knackery kangaroo and donkey ended up in Birmingham's beef burgers
That little episode tripled the fallen stock paperwork too. But it didn't prevent 'horsegate'.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Nowadays any business that takes dead or injured stock would be referred to as a knackerman. Anything that is going to enter the human food chain has to be inspected and signed off by a vet so for example a healthy cow with a clean break to a leg could be inspected by a vet, slaughtered on farm and go into the food chain. Dead or diseased animals including any that have had medication with a statutory withhold period would be picked up by the knackerman and not enter the food chain. Some knackermen may also run a proper abattoir and butchery (ours does) so the traceability and vet inspection is quite important!

Just out of interest what are you doing that involves writing a short paper on knackeries?