You don't have to upload ear tag numbers anyway
BVDFree England only 329 farms.
- Thread starter Water Wheel
- Start date
- Location
- East Sussex
Dredging this one up!
Will start tag testing today, we not aiming for any grand health status or anything, more for our own peace of mind and general herd health. Do you have to be a member of these schemes? Can the results be posted on a database later? Are there any benefits to being in a scheme for a commercial suckler herd? Don't buy much stock in if we can help it, I presume you can get blank testing tags or similar for the odd dead calf?
Thanks
Will start tag testing today, we not aiming for any grand health status or anything, more for our own peace of mind and general herd health. Do you have to be a member of these schemes? Can the results be posted on a database later? Are there any benefits to being in a scheme for a commercial suckler herd? Don't buy much stock in if we can help it, I presume you can get blank testing tags or similar for the odd dead calf?
Thanks
no you don't have to be a member, but hopefully in the end cattle from herds that test and don't have BVD will be worth more and hopefully if enough join it will be made compulsory
I joined for the commercial cattle as much as the peds
yes you can get blanks
I joined for the commercial cattle as much as the peds
yes you can get blanks
Eak
New Member
Defra have announced funding available in England for BVD testing and 4/5hr vet time/advice on-farm: https://www.sruc.ac.uk/BVD
But have to go to a meeting with your vet practice before they'll fund your testing.
But have to go to a meeting with your vet practice before they'll fund your testing.
matthew
Member
- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
Just bumping this one up.
Attended a funded supper meeting about this last December.
Bloods taken last week.
Results back today - all negative.
Vet calling next week to discuss wot now. l would like to use the tissue ear tags we already store for DNA but apparently we have to punch new holes for each tag screen.
This is a disease we can eradicate, but we won't do that until it is compulsory not to move on PIs.
https://www.agriland.co.uk/farming-...onvicted-for-bvd-related-movement-offences-2/
dannewhouse
Member
- Location
- huddersfield
it is an offence to sell a known PI, how you prove the person knew it was a PI is a bit awkward.
M-J-G
Member
Up here every BVD test on a public database and recorded against the animals number, test date and result.
So there is no scope for pleading ignorance.
https://www.scoteid.com/
- Location
- Buxton, Derbyshire
If you go to one of your free vets meetings you are automatically enrolled, which will be helping.
You can potentially get up to £500 worth of blood samples taken if you attended your vets meeting as well.
yes I know with the money on offer at the moment it would be stupid for folk not to take advantage
we sorted it ourselves a couple years ago hence being able to say we are BVD free, TBO the cost wasn't to bad as we didn't have a problem just a pooled blood sample once a year for a couple years given what we had been doing for lots of years anyway
- Location
- East Sussex
Just to say: I have claimed the bvdfree thing through the vet (a bit of a job for the boys if you’re already testing yourself) but I filled a form out for a chap that doesn’t have an SBI number and they rejected his application for this reason. Because of this the scheme probably won’t cover or be available to enough producers imo and be a bit of a flop.
I suppose it’ll get money spent anyways
M-J-G
Member
Refreshing to see that people are using health status as a way of promoting their stock.
I recall posting about using health status as a promotional tool a few years ago, and was met with various counter arguments on TFF.
I guess most catch on to using the work and cost of testing to their advantage eventually, many were admittedly doing the testing anyway but weren't getting certification. It seemed daft not to take advantage of the efforts.
I recall posting about using health status as a promotional tool a few years ago, and was met with various counter arguments on TFF.
I guess most catch on to using the work and cost of testing to their advantage eventually, many were admittedly doing the testing anyway but weren't getting certification. It seemed daft not to take advantage of the efforts.
Currently a member of SRUC PCHS. Due my annual herd test for BVD which means testing my 2019 calf crop 9-18 months old. A few of these have now been bovillis BVD vaccinated prior to breeding. These will most likely have a positive result. Will this effect my herds BVD VMF status
- Location
- Shropshire
You are able to have the eradication program, because all your animal health money isn’t being blown on TB testing like ours is.
From what I can see of the bvd England plan is it is all mouth and no trousers.
- Location
- Buxton, Derbyshire
We've just done a BVD screen for biobest (but also part of the BVD free England funding). We just had to do 8-10 homebred, unvaccinated, 9-18mth old animals.
That's exactly the current requirement for all breeding herds in Scotland ( at least for those not in an official health scheme).
The benefits of being BVD free are enormous, Far less scour and pneumonia in calves, and there is evidence that sheep on the same farm also benefit.
But you need to be sure that bought in stock - bulls or foster calves or breeding females are BVD free or at least can be isolated and tested before exposing them to the rest of the herd.
So go for it. There is nothing to lose and everything to gain. Although I do appreciate that TB can complicate things.
- Location
- Buxton, Derbyshire
We've been tag testing for over 5 yrs but as we have recently signed up with Biobest CHECS scheme we needed to do a BVD screen as an initial check, then they will use our tag results. We got the screen funded through the Stamp It Out programme part of BVD free England.
We are going to start and test all bought in stock, plus those coming back from shows, and have been tag testing stillbirths as well since last yr.
- Location
- East Sussex
We tag and tested for two years alongside bovela vaccination. Didn't seem to be picking any up after a clear out so don't bother testing anymore, herd health, especially calves has perked up no end. We did get some grant to assist but it was too late and we'd done their job already.
No need for a song and dance about it...... just the sensible thing to do.
No need for a song and dance about it...... just the sensible thing to do.