Has this changed in recent years? About 5 or 6 years ago I asked our vet about taking some barrens the week of our TB test, he didn't see any problem, we didn't bother jabbing them.If they're jabbed and not read I think that will class as a failed test.
We were thinking that this was the case that it was fine as long as we didn't jab them and they were gone from the holding before the end of our test window
after all you don't have to test all your animals on the same day
and if they are sold before they need to be tested you can't test them obviously
I was just checking
@matthew ?
It may be different in other regions but I'm pretty sure that if cattle are jabbed here they must be read or it's a failed test. A few years ago we had some fat cattle booked in for the day after jabbing and the vet insisted we put the jabbing day down on the movement date so that he could say they weren't there on day one.
so what about those that test half there cattle one week and half the next can they not sell any animals after the first test has commencedMy understanding is that with a herd test, ALL animals must be presented. If you have purchased preMT stock then an instruction, unless it was very recent, will show on the vet's print out as 'do not test' .
so what about those that test half there cattle one week and half the next can they not sell any animals after the first test has commenced
I must point out I am not trying to do anything underhand here just trying to save a vet visit
yesThey first lot will be logged into some database somewhere, I would have thought. And no, they should not be sold until read. If say dairy milkers and youngstock are kept on one holding, then the shut down could, theoretically be that long. Friends I have with 1000 plus cattle do half Monday, half Tuesday and read Thursday / friday. So one week.
TB testing is fine in theory, but real farms have a habit of throwing spanners in the theoretical works. Defra work on a window box scale. A paved one with plastic cattle. But you knew that, didn't you?
so you couldn't sell anything from the start of the first test till the end of the second one then, at least that is my understanding from what matthew has saidWe are testing half our animals one week and the other the next, for our annual test. This works easier for us as any disasters can be sorted on the day and the vet is able to do something else that day that crops up. The cattle are also split in two groups of yards 200 yards apart so lots of moving cattle to try and squeeze in one day.
so you couldn't sell anything from the start of the first test till the end of the second one then, at least that is my understanding from what matthew has said
Why don't you PD them on reading day? Although will take longer than if done on jab day, will still save you the vet visit.I must point out I am not trying to do anything underhand here just trying to save a vet visit
I thought a red market was the same as direct to slaughter ?No you cant do this OP.
You can send cattle direct to slaughter between the day they are jabbed upto and including the day you read the test but you cannot jab them on the first day and they must be killed either before or on the day you read the test.
Edit ; the above was the case unless they have changed the rules recently