trailers

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do you have to have specific livestock trailer to move livestock - ie are the regs on this sort of thing?

[PurpleDragon]

Yeah, I think there is - certainly for pigs anyway. Defra has a section I believe.

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thanks... found it eventually - they dont make it easy tho

here is is

[PurpleDragon]

LOL - which is why I wasnt able to give you the link!

Kids were beng bonkers at the time

[camillitech]

do you have to have specific livestock trailer to move livestock - ie are the regs on this sort of thing?

no i don't have a specific trailer but i do borrow a corker. wish i could find a piccy of it. it's about 8x4 with fold down sides and a lift off roof. it's got a loading ramp on the back with a wee door in the middle of it. it's low enough at the back for pigs to get in and out through the door without using the ramp. my pigs are tucked up in it right now. i put it in their field a few days before i take them to the abatoir. i close the door of their pig house and they start using the trailer for a bed. tomorrow i'll take em for a wee trip round the croft in it just to get them used to traveling. on sunday i'll take em for a 20mile drive before breakfast then on monday it's the long haul to the abatoir we are gonna miss daisy,muffin,buster and spot

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well - as mentioned we resolved our trailer problem by making one - or more precisely - recycling an ordinary trailer into a livestock trailer
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