Foot & Mouth

primmiemoo

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Location
Devon
The strange thing is, I believe the virus is meant to be very susceptible to disinfectant. I remember reading guidance about sampling in suspected cases and it was saying about keeping any disinfectant well away from where you were sampling.
Disinfectant, and heat. I remember the cutters and combs for shearing put to disinfect on dry concrete in full sun ready to go to the next group to shear. All done in the fields they were. Type O FMD can be spread on clothing. No hugs from our farming rellies, and they didn't expect any from us until the all clear.
 

Jerry

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
In light of everything that has happened today - even with FMD suspicions being negated - do we think it’ll have a knock on effect of prices, sheep, pigs or cattle alike?
Still mulling over Mondays potential trade. Picked these this morning.

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Whitepeak

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Livestock Farmer
Heard today that all vet practices had received emails last night saying that APHA were investigating a suspected case. A common thing with most notifiable diseases. Most practices remain vigilant but don't publicise it in order to not panic clients, until APHA have confirmed the case.
However one practice for some reason decided to post it all over their social media feeds this morning!! Which led to Defra having their hand forced into putting out an official statement!

Very short sighted by the practice in question and hopefully they regret their inappropriate social media posts!
 

BredRedHfd

Member
BASIS
Location
NE Derbyshire
Heard today that all vet practices had received emails last night saying that APHA were investigating a suspected case. A common thing with most notifiable diseases. Most practices remain vigilant but don't publicise it in order to not panic clients, until APHA have confirmed the case.
However one practice for some reason decided to post it all over their social media feeds this morning!! Which led to Defra having their hand forced into putting out an official statement!

Very short sighted by the practice in question and hopefully they regret their inappropriate social media posts!
Derby one?
 

JP1

Member
Livestock Farmer
I believe F&M has now been officially ruled out.
It has but nothing yet been ruled in either

Pirbright still doing more tests

Still a tragedy for many and makes it even more stark that we needed no more bulls**t from Government ; we need the Aussie approach - either full BCP for all food and livestock imports or it doesn’t come in . Simple

ASF a ticking time bomb now
 
It has but nothing yet been ruled in either

Pirbright still doing more tests

Still a tragedy for many and makes it even more stark that we needed no more bulls**t from Government ; we need the Aussie approach - either full BCP for all food and livestock imports or it doesn’t come in . Simple

ASF a ticking time bomb now
Yes we need to 'Take back control'! That couldn't just be an empty soundbite engineered for the front page of the Daily Wail, could it? 🤔
 

Vorest Tat

Member
Livestock Farmer
our next door neighbour is a retired vet. He went of assisting the ministry vets in 01. He reckons you wouldn’t believe what they were told in the briefings. He went too one farm, lambs had a touch of scald. Nothing too worry about. No visible lesions of salivation at all. Next day a fresh out of uni vet went too the same farm, condemned the lot. Pete tried arguing that those animals were perfectly healthy. Was told too sit down and do as he was told. That triggered a contagious cull around that farm. Non tested positive. Another farm the tup had been at the rolled barley then gone out into the field and laid out with bloat, frothing at the mouth. Pete went too it, let it down and it got up and trotted off. Again a young fresh out of uni vet reported it as salivation due too F&M. The bosses weren’t interested in ANY diagnosis other than F&M. Pete only stuck it 5 weeks then came back too his practise. He said it was mass murder, not controlled culling. 🤬🤬
Yes. Common story round here. There was very little actual f&m about. This is why no-one trusts defra anymore. Just trigger happy and out to rid the country of livestock. 😡😡
 

yellowbelly

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
In theory we now have the option to take control, we just don't have anywhere near the amount of staff to do it.
I suspect we have plenty of staff, unfortunately all the clipboard warriors are deployed in the wrong places making ordinary folk's lives more difficult instead of policing our borders.

As @Woolless says, the lack of political will, will be the problem.
 

beardface

Member
Location
East Yorkshire
I suspect we have plenty of staff, unfortunately all the clipboard warriors are deployed in the wrong places making ordinary folk's lives more difficult instead of policing our borders.

As @Woolless says, the lack of political will, will be the problem.

It's the staff to do veterinary phytosanitary checks that's the issue. Hence why it's open door at the ports to starve off food shortages.
 

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