- Location
- West Wales
Down here it’s not a case of another farm going down, most farms are down with it and have been for 15-20 years. It’s rare once a big herd goes down that they pass 2 follow up clear tests. Completely closed herds and have been for years yet still testing every 60 days - most of these wouldn’t take sheep on tack either as they need the ground to put slurry on - own equipment too so don’t share umbilical pipes with other farms because of TB spreading etc.
In Cardigan where they started the B cull the cases started dropping, some B were vaccinated but all sets were identified, the vaccination program was stopped as they needed the vaccine for the human population in London that arn’t vaccinated (foreigners) the sets were already identified and farmers did their own thing. They were TB free very soon after - they did have the coast and a few big rivers around the area so they couldn’t have new B travelling in.
The local area here of circa 5-6mile doesn’t have much TB but the vets have said it is getting closer every year and it will get to us!
An uncle of mine was on the TB eradication program in the 80’s and he has said they would identify a set, take 1 B from each set and have it PM’d and tested. If infected they’d gas that whole set, leaving clean sets. He worked for 4 years doing it across the whole of Wales and England and when they only had weeks left until they would have done the whole country the funding was stopped and all that work had gone to waste!
A small herd next door to where I used to work lost 49/103 cows in 1 test, next test 60 days later took 45 cows, they’d never had it before, all stock gone in 60 days
they’ve never restocked from 10 years ago.
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A first count of 
£41,997
Our family has been completely overwhelmed by the support we have received over the last number of months, and we sincerely thank you for this. Last night highlighted yet again the generosity of our farming community that we are so proud to be part of
