Meatline Newsletter 1 October 2012

RETAIL SPECIALS TO 06/10/12

IMPORTANT !!! The email & Facebook specials are at even better prices than the in store special price. Make sure you quote this weeks word to ensure you get these amazing prices. This weeks word :- It’s

Pay attention because over the next few weeks these words will make a sentence or ditty and the first three customers in with the correct sentence will get a whopping 20% off of their bill on that day. So tell your friends to come and join the fun.

Pork Valentine Steaks A great mid-week treat! Cut straight from the Loin and perfect for grilling! £4.80/KG Great beef mini roasting joint A roasting joint commonly known as the salmon roll is ideal for smaller mid week roast, cutting down on cooking times and so much easier to carve! £7.00/KG Chicken nuggets 100% breast meat, these nuggets are a great dinner for all the family and will go down a treat. £5.99/ Bag

PRESS RELEASE

Hobby Pig Keeping Course - Massive Success

An amazing 50 people attended the course on Hobby Pig Keeping at Stisted Village Hall that was  funded by DEFRA  and presented excellently by Odelle Walker from ADAS and Bev Mair from Chelmsford Trading Standards.

Odelle covered the following:

• 5 freedoms associated with the Animal Welfare Act 2006
• Bio Security, Disease Control - Including Notifiable Diseases, and effective quarantine.
• Pig Health, Vaccinations and worming and fallen stock. (You can't just bury dead pigs, they legally have to be disposed of in the correct manner, which in Essex is via W Martin and Son in Braintree.)
• Feeding and legislation - it is illegal to feed any catering waste including domestic kitchen waste even if these establishments only cater for vegetarians.
• Record Keeping Requirements - how we must keep movement logs (even the infamous micro pigs need a walking licence) and medicine books and the length of time they must be kept.  

Bev Mair, from Chelmsford Trading Standards, then moved on to talk about

Odelle Walker in
full flow

movements of pigs including the new EAML2 Online movement recorded system, which will completely replace the paper forms from the 1st April 2012. Identification of Pigs - Tags, Slapmarks or Tattoo's and the associated legislation was also covered.

The course ran from 2pm-5pm, breaking half way through for refreshments supplied by East Essex Smallholders Group with a marvellous selection of homemade cakes.

People attended from all across Essex, along with members from East Essex Smallholders Group, Herts &Essex Smallholders and Suffolk Smallholders.

The course was very informative and everyone who attended commented on how much they had learnt.

Fingers crossed DEFRA funding can be obtained for a similar course to be run on sheep. 

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ADAS Pig keeping course - 25 February 2012 - BOOK NOW!

Free Pig keeping course comes to Essex

After much badgering and many phone calls our Chairman has done it!  We now have a free DEFRA funded ADAS Pig Keeping Course coming to Essex on Saturday 25th February 2012 at Stisted Village Hall.  Time to be confirmed.

Members of the Suffolk, Herts and Essex smallholders groups will be attending; so a chance to meet more people with the same interests .

Anybody wishing to attend MUST email  

Georgie at 

Georgie.Fomes@adas.co.uk  

to book a place. 

This course is open to anybody so if you have any friends that would like to attend, get them to contact Georgie ASAP

If anyone can share a lift, it will help with parking and also our carbon footprint.

Hobby Pig Keeping

ADAS invites you to the first Defra-fundedmeetings for hobby farmers with pigs.

The workshops will provide smallholders with easily accessible, relevant practical and technical training delivered by experienced pig specialists with a recognised track record in the small holder sector training; to increase the health, welfare and productivity of the small pig herd.

Topics covered:

·       Pig Welfare legislation – 5 Freedoms (Animal welfare Act 2006)

·      Biosecurity, disease control and  effective quarantine

·      Pig health, vaccinations and worming, fallen stock

·      Movements, ID and legislation

·      Feeding and legislation

·      On farm record requirements

Address for village hall is:
Stisted Village Hall
Rectory Road
Stisted
CM77 8AL