3. STOCK POSTS 3.1. If you consider buying an additional farm, remember, “absentee landlords gather no crops”. Rather try and buy close to your residential farm. 3.2. Prevent stolen animals from being hidden on your property. Stock-posts serve as ideal overnight stopovers to hide stolen livestock. Unknown livestock found at such posts should immediately be reported to the SAPS. 3.3. Employ a reliable shepherd on the post who can count the animals every morning. Missing livestock should be reported immediately. 3.4. Do not install a telephone in the shepherd house. Rather issue him with a two-way radio as means of communication with the livestock-owners. 3.5. This shepherd can skin all dead animals and salt and preserve the hide in order for the livestock-owners to see it for him-/herself and adjust his/her livestock register accordingly. 3.6.All gates leading to and from the stock post, can be kept locked. 3.7. The livestock-owner can personally take the shepherd (if he is a pensioner) every month to the place where his pension is paid out. Many pensioners have their own form of transport that can be utilised to convey carcasses. 3.8. Livestock at stock posts should be counted by the livestock-owner himself/herself, at least once a week. 3.9. If employees at stock posts possess their own animals, a good preventative measure against stock theft, (if involvement of employees is suspected) is to allow the animals to mix and graze together. agritv.co.za/news/combatting-stock-theft/
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