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- somerset
but of course, he wouldn't have any little ones running around, no idea what you call one, would he ?
Geronimo.
- Thread starter Castle Farm
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- Exeter, Devon
I took this screenshot off their camera last week as I also wondered how this could count as isolation:
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- Fife
Cria
Oliveau
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- Indre et Loire, France
FonterraFarmer
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- Location
- Waikato, New Zealand
Doesn't the vaccine for Johne's disease interfere with the TB test giving false positive test results???
I did biosecurity assessments at one point ref tb, generally if you could get a nokia brick through a gap it was deemed not badger proof
Water Wheel
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Might be worth a check of the Alpaca pedegree register.
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- Romney Marsh
I would imagine that legions will be found 100%.
If DEFRA scientists can mix up cows brains with sheep brains while looking for BSE in sheep a few years ago, I'm sure they can accidently mix up a TB Alpaca negative test with something more positive !
They would be mad not too
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- South Molton
The SCITT is a test to find if an animal has or has been exposed to tb and has produced antibodies and therefore reacts to the "test"
Just because it reacts doesn't mean it will have lesions.
Pieces_of_Eight
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I certainly wouldn't put it past her to have "Alpaca hand relief sessions" on her list of hobbies...
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Yes they have looked at wild deer, pre badger cull. Statistical returns suggested infection but at extremely low levels and this was primarily in fallow deer in the Gloucester area. I have only seen confirmed tb in one red deer that I shot and one other that I was called out to. I've never seen or heard of a case in roe deer.
matthew
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- Cornwall, SW England
Doesn't the vaccine for Johne's disease interfere with the TB test giving false positive test results???
I believe so. Johnnes bacteria is m.avium paratuberculosis part of the M.Tuberculosis complex group. (MTC).
He was skin tested before export, according to what his owner said. And a priming skin test given before bloods taken in UK. That was a voluntary test. He failed Enferplex twice.
The skin test is rubbish on alpacas.
Pieces_of_Eight
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Roe & Muntjac much less sociable?
Lorry driver who collected a TB reactor from us a few years ago said he had been on a deer cull a few weeks before & of 90 deer culled 64 had showed signs of TB when butchered, that was in Gloucestershire
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With numbers like that culled and the levels of suspected signs it would suggest a park cull.
renewablejohn
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- lancs
Well done Gareth Wynn Jones your performance on Jeremy Whine was excellent. Just wish you were given more time to respond to that anti farming woman.
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- Limousin, France
Went looking for an explanation of the enferplex test and found this interesting...
CopperBeech
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- A Welsh man lost in England
I have my tin hat firmly in place ........
But I don’t really see the point of killing the animal or indeed of the massive fuss made.
Some of the rubbish spouted by the powers that be were a joke - farm animals have to be culled as that’s how we are successfully controlling TB. Pull the other one
But I don’t really see the point of killing the animal or indeed of the massive fuss made.
Some of the rubbish spouted by the powers that be were a joke - farm animals have to be culled as that’s how we are successfully controlling TB. Pull the other one