Regulations for the carriage of animals

Transportation of animals requires special conditions, so this problem can be trusted only to professionals. All the animals, depending on destination, can be divided into 3 groups: workers, slaughter (cattle, small cattle, geese, chickens, pigs transported for slaughter for meat) and tribal. When animals should comply with applicable in Ukraine veterinary and sanitary standards. For carriage shall be allowed only those animals which at the time of transport do not have infectious diseases.
Animal transport by road there is a special rolling stock – cattle. This is a special form of transport equipped with a ventilation system, electric lighting, Septic tank, as well as special door-ladder with raising and lowering mechanism.
If such a mode of transport for some reason absent, for this kind of transportation used cars Flatbed, specially equipped for this type of cargo. Animals are transported in dump trucks and platform trucks, rough after the transport of chemicals and dangerous goods, of course, prohibited.
Airborne vehicles in the event of their use for the carriage of animals equipped with wooden boards, bars, partitions height of about 1.2 – 1.9 m, as well as devices for tethering animals. The length of stalls for cattle and horses should be 2.2 – 3 m, width – 80 – 120 cm.
To avoid the influence of the cold, humidity or excessive heat vehicles are additionally equipped with tents or awnings. Body should not be inside the protruding sharp objects, so as not to hurt animals. To preserve the temperature of the car body floor covered with a layer of straw bedding.
When animals there is a natural loss of their mass. Loss according to various estimates vary, but the average figure becomes about 4%.
Handling of animals is carried out directly from the ground or from the loading and unloading sites. Such sites are usually equipped with ramps and overpasses. When you load the car on the floor and diverse animal species in a body set additional partitions.

Semi-cattle

Number of animals to load is determined by the shipper on the basis of age and species, time of year, temperature conditions, load-carrying capacity of the vehicle and cargo safety reasons.
For the transportation of such goods shall be issued veterinary certificate and permission quarantine service. Almost all such shipments are accompanied by a freight forwarder, which monitors the animals in the way, feed and water them.
Bird cages installed and secured to the vehicle body, providing air circulation.
Live fish are transported in special tanks with water saturated with oxygen. The amount of oxygen should be about 60 mg per 1 kg of live fish. But for the fish consume more oxygen (eg, trout and sturgeon) this concentration should be higher.
When transporting the summer water temperature should be within the range of +10 to +14 ° C in summer, from +4 to +6 ° C in spring and autumn and from +1 to +2 ° C in winter. At the wrong temperature conditions the fish become lethargic. Fish water is heated inlet air and cooled clean crushed ice.
Bees in the hive carrying plywood or packages only in the summer and the transitional period, accompanied by the forwarder. Hives are set in tiers, providing unobstructed passage between the rows and the free circulation of air. Is the optimal temperature for the transport of bees +8 ° C.