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Mrs R

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 11 6:40 pm Post subject: Horrible incomprehensible story

Just been talking to a dairy farming friend who had someone turn up to buy bull calves. Nothing really unusual there except that it turned out later they were being kept in a garden shed and expected to live on lawn and nothing else from 10days of age. Unsurprisingly one was dead already by the time they found out, and luckily the other is now recovering back at the original farm.

I just can't fathom what made them go out of their way to go to farm, arrange to buy animals etc. with NO knowledge AT ALL of their needs, only to stick them in a shed and let them die?

Jersey bull calves are absolutely worthless, what possible advantage is there? It's not like backyard puppy breeding or micro pigs?

The joke would have been on them had they survived and grown - 2 jersey bulls in a garden shed? Good luck to ya pal!! I've seen what they're like when they grow up!

NorthernMonkeyGirl

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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 11 6:43 pm Post subject:
Did they think they were going to fatten and eat them?? Fancy (cheap) lawn mower? See a TV programme about dairy bull calves being shot??

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 11 8:59 pm Post subject:
Do you not have to fill in movement paperwork with destination holding numbers and things on when you sell calves?

Rob R

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Location: York

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 11 9:43 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Do you not have to fill in movement paperwork with destination holding numbers and things on when you sell calves?

No, each animal has a passport and you just sign it 'off'. You can get a holding number on a gardenless terraced-house though, so it wouldn't make a difference.

sean
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 11 9:51 pm Post subject:
OK, just wondered how it worked.

Mrs R

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 11 10:02 am Post subject:
If the passport was just signed 'off' and not on again, you'd hope that eventually it would be picked up on as that's what the systems for....but it'd be too late for the calves and I know myself that when I've made a similar passport mistake, it wasn't picked up on for weeks and it was me who rang them and told them.

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