you don't live on the British mainland thenThe only opinion I have expressed on this subject on here is that I live in a TB free area and if it arrives here it will be through cattle movements not through the agency of badgers.
you don't live on the British mainland thenThe only opinion I have expressed on this subject on here is that I live in a TB free area and if it arrives here it will be through cattle movements not through the agency of badgers.
The only opinion I have expressed on this subject on here is that I live in a TB free area and if it arrives here it will be through cattle movements not through the agency of badgers.
Locally had a number of badgers suddenly appear in an area that no one alive remembers seeing badgers in or within ten or twelve miles of. It also happens to be 5 mins from a motorway junction. Car has been seen parked in gateway and people letting them out of cages lifted out the bootMake no mistake, there are badgers being "saved" by antis and relocated north. I'm sure as we slowly clear up the south, areas up north will learn what ball ache we've been going through.
That is one of the stupidest comments you have ever made !The only opinion I have expressed on this subject on here is that I live in a TB free area and if it arrives here it will be through cattle movements not through the agency of badgers.
Are you expecting to get a straight answer?So what would you say to those of us with closed herds that have suffered with Tb for decades?
Are you expecting to get a straight answer?
Your a danger to yourself.The only opinion I have expressed on this subject on here is that I live in a TB free area and if it arrives here it will be through cattle movements not through the agency of badgers.
Excellent post @lazy farmer and pleased you are seeing some light at the end of the tunnelWe’ve gone TB free. I was just going to post this in all things dairy thread. But I thought feck it I’ll start a new thread so perhaps antisWho I have no doubt read this forum may notice it.
In theory we are now onto annual testing for the first time in 10 years for the first six years of that each year the TB got worse then the cull started in our area. Since then our incident of TB has dropped year on year here with us going clear in the spring three years in a row only to fail in autumn but with less cases each time. Then this feb we went clear and now our 2irs has gone clear this autumn meaning we haven’t had a cow with TB for 14 months.
So if proof was needed that the cull has a place in the eradication of TB we are living proof of it.
So today I have mixed feelings. I’m elated that we in theory don’t have to put our stock through the misery of testing for a whole yr.
but I’m also angry. Angry at the NFU and MAFF for allowing this insidious disease to spread when it was so very nearly eradicated. Angry at our politicians for designating the badger a protected species without considering the consequences it would have on the balance of the countryside and those of us who derive a living from it. Badgers hedgehogs ground nesting birds have all suffered as a direct result of this interference.
Lastly I’m angry at those how ever well meaning who think the life of a badger is worth more than the life of one of my cows. To you I say congratulations for the misery you have cause many people and cattle over the last number of yrs and not forgetting the infected badgers who have been suffering and playing their part in spreading this devastating disease within their community and beyond. I hope you have the decency to admit and reflect on the role you have played in it’s spread at a time when maybe just maybe we are getting to grips with it.
Can anyone see a time or reason when the protected status might be lifted? I've talked to ecologists who think that as there are so many badgers around, the status detracts from those protected creatures who's numbers are genuinely under threat.
Well it certainly won't happen in Wales if the boyos in the Bay have anything to do with it!Never. It just wont fly in parliament and a national debate no matter what the arguments for it. However we do have the disease control options and as Lazy has demonstrated it is working.
Lifting protected status could quite easily have a negative affect on TB with small scale peacemeal culling actually increasing the problem.
All very true!.Never. It just wont fly in parliament and a national debate no matter what the arguments for it. However we do have the disease control options and as Lazy has demonstrated it is working.
Lifting protected status could quite easily have a negative affect on TB with small scale peacemeal culling actually increasing the problem.
Did he also shoot the flying pig?Those badgers relocated north won’t get very far, rifleman in Cheshire told me they’d shot 1000 badgers in the first couple of nights a few weeks back. I dream of the day we go back to 4 yearly testing [emoji7]
Those badgers relocated north won’t get very far, rifleman in Cheshire told me they’d shot 1000 badgers in the first couple of nights a few weeks back. I dream of the day we go back to 4 yearly testing [emoji7]
Yearly testing will be a big start. Haven't tested now for 4 months. Feels wierd. Bring on DecemberThose badgers relocated north won’t get very far, rifleman in Cheshire told me they’d shot 1000 badgers in the first couple of nights a few weeks back. I dream of the day we go back to 4 yearly testing [emoji7]