stablegirl
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- North
Cheers, I cant decide of we "want" to blood test?!
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If it nips it in the bud then you do. 15 years time a lot of damage could be done
stablegirl
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When you dont have any idea how it came in nipping it in the bud is difficult!
Ducati899
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- north dorset
Family member next door to me,has had 3 blood tests now went clear for a short time and is currently shut back down after failing 6 month follow on test,we are testing week before Christmas after having two blood tests and going clear in June so shall see what that brings up,although I had 40 animals go clear on pre movement test this week
Plenty of wildlife been removed from traps and relocated. Hopfully just as baldy had, just a wake up call, but....
Have they isolated the strain yet to begin with to give you an idea of how it got into the area or as you are saying that the previous two reactors didn’t have lesions has it not been possible to get samples to culture ?
Flip side. I'm on holiday, just got the message that we have gone tb free this morning.
Would see what happens at slaughter, if they find lesions I would blood test because your in a TB4 and likely to have a chronic cow, we're having to do bloods and after 28 years of tb restriction it is likely to be pretty devastating as a number of our reactors had walled up lesions (which we haven't seen for a few years) after nearly going clear in the summer.
Cows 'n grass
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- Modbury, South Devon
Ah 21 days off would be a treat. Home for day 6 in reality tho.
How far away did they come from?
On the ibTB there’s quite a few cases in your area.
stablegirl
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About 25 miles away, we haven't had any proven case yet, no lesions, no cultures if they find either we automatically have to blood test.
What are people finding when they blood test?
Losing 5%?
Average loss is between 10% and 20%, but ranges between 0 and 80% from our vets.
stablegirl
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Adam@Rumen
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- Nantwich/Rishton
Sorry to hear that Tom.
I've seen skin and blood go clear before but they still found lesions in the abattoir.
I've seen skin and blood go clear before but they still found lesions in the abattoir.
Homesy
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- North West Devon
Jesus don't frighten the poor girl. We in Devon have a heavily infested Badger and deer population. I'm sure that there is not the level of infection in the Badger population up North.
Maybe, but has had up to 4 years to establish itself in the herd with being a TB4, I would always go with worst case scenario and only lose a few then the other way around.
Hence we should all be on yearly testing.
I’m in a Tb4 parish and all the breakdowns in our locality have come from buying in,fortunately yearly testing by dealers has caught some.
Does anyone pay for their own yearly testing (whole herd)?
Absolutely right.
