BVD the new TB in Wales

[Llanman]

Just read in the latest newsletter from our vets about the recent new legislation from the Welsh government regarding BVD, every herd will now will have to carry out annual antibody screening (which we will charged a fee for the pleasure) the results will be reported to the farmer, the veterinary practice and the Welsh government that will decide the BVD status of the herd,
PIs will have to be isolated and they are planning on introducing whole herd movement restrictions.
I presume BVD positive and PI animals will be slaughtered but no mention if there will be any compensation or how any movement restrictions might be lifted.
I have no problem in taking BVD seriously just wondering what others think or if anyone knows any more details.

 

[David1968]

You're way behind the curve. Had this up here for years.

Can only be a good thing.

 

[Limcrazy]

Virtually eradicated bvd in Northern Ireland with this scheme. Unfortunately as always there's a few still knocking about.

 

[M-J-G]

Just read in the latest newsletter from our vets about the recent new legislation from the Welsh government regarding BVD, every herd will now will have to carry out annual antibody screening (which we will charged a fee for the pleasure) the results will be reported to the farmer, the veterinary practice and the Welsh government that will decide the BVD status of the herd,
PIs will have to be isolated and they are planning on introducing whole herd movement restrictions.
I presume BVD positive and PI animals will be slaughtered but no mention if there will be any compensation or how any movement restrictions might be lifted.
I have no problem in taking BVD seriously just wondering what others think or if anyone knows any more details.

You're at least a decade behind Scotland on that front.
Although there have had some issues with farmers that have land in Scotland and England as some cattle slip through the net due to England not having had a compulsory scheme in the past.
Perhaps they do now.

 

[Cotlandfarmer]

Just read in the latest newsletter from our vets about the recent new legislation from the Welsh government regarding BVD, every herd will now will have to carry out annual antibody screening (which we will charged a fee for the pleasure) the results will be reported to the farmer, the veterinary practice and the Welsh government that will decide the BVD status of the herd,
PIs will have to be isolated and they are planning on introducing whole herd movement restrictions.
I presume BVD positive and PI animals will be slaughtered but no mention if there will be any compensation or how any movement restrictions might be lifted.
I have no problem in taking BVD seriously just wondering what others think or if anyone knows any more details.

Shouldn't be a worry as there is a BVD vaccine available.
Vaccinate your heifers before they are served.

 

[nonemouse]

If only Tb was as easy to eradicate as Bvd.
Tag test is relatively cheap and accurate way to ensure no PIs join the herd, and if needed vaccination is also relatively cheap and easy, we’ve on a BVD monitoring scheme for something like 20 years now. It’s a shame it’s not been compulsory like Scotland and then the disease could be consigned to the history books.

 

[davidroberts30]

Shouldn't be a worry as there is a BVD vaccine available.
Vaccinate your heifers before they are served.

Can't test then for bvd as false positive from the vaccine ?

 

[Henarar]

Can't test then for bvd as false positive from the vaccine ?

you test younger animals that have not been vaccinated

 

[davidroberts30]

you test younger animals that have not been vaccinated

Ahh ok

 

[David1968]

Tag testing all the calves is the way to go. A positive on a calf will also identify the cow as positive.

 

[deleted user 837354]

This should have been dealt with at a national level years ago. IBR, Johnes and lepto too probably. The pig and poultry guys had no choice and had to put their houses in order eons before that as I am sure many will attest to. It boggles my mind that you have the industry paying giga-bucks to the likes of red tractor, ADHB and whatever other quangos-de-jour and this hasn't be addressed long before. NFU is quick to try and claim British is best, best welfare, best blah blah blah when compared to foreign product and yet this has been left under the rug for decades?

 

[BRB John]

Yeah get BVD is nothing like TB not even close.
Vaccinations and you'll be free in no time.
The benefits of not having BVD in the herd massively overweigh the costs of a vaccine or a vet visit.

 

[davidroberts30]

So is this blanket testing or are finishing herd exempt?

 

[BRB John]

This should have been dealt with at a national level years ago. IBR, Johnes and lepto too probably. The pig and poultry guys had no choice and had to put their houses in order eons before that as I am sure many will attest to. It boggles my mind that you have the industry paying giga-bucks to the likes of red tractor, ADHB and whatever other quangos-de-jour and this hasn't be addressed long before. NFU is quick to try and claim British is best, best welfare, best blah blah blah when compared to foreign product and yet this has been left under the rug for decades?

Johnes is a complete arsehole, been trying to chase out out for near a decade but still get the odd one every other year plus there's not a vaccine for it.

Yeah that's just marketing bull

 

[Llanman]

You're way behind the curve. Had this up here for years.

Can only be a good thing.

We keep suckler cows selling weanling/store cattle, never had a BVD problem and source our replacement heifers as calves from the same dairy farm that have tag tested their calves for many years, we also vaccinate all breeding stock and been part of the gwaredu (eradicate) BVD programme without problem.
As I mentioned I have no problem with BVD testing and was wondering about how the whole herd movement restrictions they plan to introduce would work as somehow we have dodged the TB bullet in regards to the selling of store stock.
This could very easily be another reason to dispose of more suckler herds

 

[M-J-G]

Shouldn't be a worry as there is a BVD vaccine available.
Vaccinate your heifers before they are served.

It's possible for it to get through that though, so it's not a perfect safety net.

 

[Henarar]

Tag testing all the calves is the way to go. A positive on a calf will also identify the cow as positive.

A positive on a calf will identify that the cow was infected when she was in calf but not that the cow is a PI, you would have to test the cow for that.

 

[M-J-G]

A positive on a calf will identify that the cow was infected when she was in calf but not that the cow is a PI, you would have to test the cow for that.

If a calf has antibody it's mother definitely isn't a PI.

Plenty of calves can have antibody without their mother having it.

 

[Will Blackburn]

I presume BVD positive and PI animals will be slaughtered but no mention if there will be any compensation or how any movement restrictions might be lifted.
I have no problem in taking BVD seriously just wondering what others think or if anyone knows any more details.

Just PI slaughtered would be enough with vaccination.

 

[vantage]

Where have you been? We’ve had a scheme running for years for screening, which was free. Gwaredu BVD. Used it to screen after been affected by BVD twenty years ago, vaccinating and tissue sampling over the years has enabled me to get to a point where we’re BVD Gold status.