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Possible Store Cattle Sale Declaration

17 April 2019

The following is a suggestion for a “national store declaration” we produce a couple of years ago.  To the best of our knowledge no seller/mart has used them so (in hope!) we are repeating the article.

The declaration is split into 2 components –

  1. The most simple information possible displayed in the catalogue and, where appropriate on boards attached to the pens.
  2. A sheet of paper giving more detailed information of benefit to the buyer. The seller would hand these out to interested buyers.

Catalogue Information

This would be based on a series of standard abbreviations as listed below.

EBV of Sire
BV
or TSI

Beef Value (£)
Terminal Sire Index (£)
Ac
Ac BVD
Ac IBR
Herd accredited free of
Herd accredited free of BVD
Herd accredited free of IBR
V
V RD
V C
Vaccination
Vaccinated against respiratory diseases
Vaccinated against clostridial diseases
WRecently wormed
FRecently treated to fluke
TBFrequency of herd TB test
PONumber of previous owners eg PO 1 means being sold by their breeder

So a catalogue entry might read –

£29 BVAc BVDV RDWTB 4PO 1

These cattle are sired by a bull with a Beef Value of +£29.  From a herd accredited free of BVD.  They would have been vaccinated against respiratory diseases and wormed but not against fluke.  The herd annual TB test would be every 4 years.

Paper Declaration

This would be filled in by the seller, and copies made available to potential buyers prior to the sale or online.  Having purchased the stock the buyer would then be able to refer to the exact details on the animals health status, to avoid double treatments etc while maximising the health of the animal through to slaughter.  A blank template is available to download here.

Basil Lowman, val.angus@sac.co.uk

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