- Location
- East Sussex
on Friday we had a cow abort twins so thought we’d ring the vets to see if anyone should be notified as it doesn’t happen much here. It turns out that, yes, the cow needs isolating and samples would need to be taken but no one knows what of and that they’ll be in touch but isolate the cow for now. I’m not sure if it was the vets job to get in touch or animal health. Roll on Monday and I’ve heard diddly so get on to the vets and a few calls by them, and no one is the wiser so I ring APHA and they still don’t know what’s going on and after giving them some warm ears they give me xlvets phone number. They do not really know either but again I give some harsh lessons down the phone and apparently someone will be in touch.
In the meantime we send bits of calf off for our own tests for various things and we were tb testing Monday so the vet was here and I remind them of the APHA issue. That afternoon on of the vets rings to say I’ll come and sample something Tuesday (today) afternoon. She just rung to say I can’t as it has to be a certain vet that does the sampling (registered or something like that) so he’s going to do it Thursday when he does the read. We can’t let the cow go or dispose of the foetuses until we get the results.....next week probably.
WTF?
In the meantime we send bits of calf off for our own tests for various things and we were tb testing Monday so the vet was here and I remind them of the APHA issue. That afternoon on of the vets rings to say I’ll come and sample something Tuesday (today) afternoon. She just rung to say I can’t as it has to be a certain vet that does the sampling (registered or something like that) so he’s going to do it Thursday when he does the read. We can’t let the cow go or dispose of the foetuses until we get the results.....next week probably.
WTF?