Health Warning Over Transporting of Pregnant Animals

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Farmers and hauliers are being warned by Animal Health not to transport heavily pregnant livestock, or animals that have given birth just days before they are due to travel. Legislation states that all farmed livestock species that have given birth in the week prior to transportation, and those in the last 10 per cent of their gestation period, are not fit to travel.

The law was brought in to prevent heavily pregnant animals giving birth while in transit, and from suffering undue injury or distress due to the rigours of transportation.

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Health Warning Over Transporting of Pregnant Animals

Long journeys also make pregnant animals, and those tha...

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