- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Perhaps they will introduce lynx etc and they eat the cows deer etc then profit is zero.
Bet there’s missing cattle in there
Bet there’s missing cattle in there
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Countryfile tonight
- Thread starter Kevtherev
- Start date
I briefly switched on to be met by John Craven with some guy and a food mixing bowl,switched over after 5 seconds.
ZXR17
Member
- Location
- South Dorset
I used to do all the spraying on Knepp when it was still a profitable estate with 2 dairy units and decent size arable enterprise. It used to be a lovely Sussex weald estate, a lot of small fields though, with good productive ground.
What a waste. It's a bloody mess now.
Each to their own ideas I suppose.
What a waste. It's a bloody mess now.
Each to their own ideas I suppose.
- Location
- Northumberland
And the good news - the trailer for next week says Helen Skelton is on
thatlldaespot
Member
Fair do's, the bTB coverage tonight was very good. Two strongly pro cull (it's definitely working), followed by Dom Dyer who at least was unable to spout his lies about 'ten minutes to die....blah blah blah...' followed by a piece on biosecurity which was entirely about keeping badgers out of yards and cattle sheds.
Nice one, Countryfile - and I don't often say that.
Nice one, Countryfile - and I don't often say that.
isn't daily checking cross complianceno , a chainsaw...
how do they check them cattle properly on a daily basis .......... oh yeah longhorn cattle dont need farm asurance......
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Easy way to keep badgers out of yards and sheds
They are manufactured by ELEY
They are manufactured by ELEY
matthew
Member
- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
Drop of 58 percent new breakdowns in the Glos cull area compared to several non cull areas. Somerset a drop of 21 percent.
In one survey they did not count herds going clear after a cull, if they had been under TB2 at the beginning. As daft as that may sound. And taken to a logical conclusion, if they had all been under TB2 at the start, then no benefit would be logged as they went clear.
Interesting that so much money put into biosecurity - not for cattle but to keep badgers away from cattle yards, feed and water. Grazed grass? They forgot that.
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lazy farmer
Member
- Location
- som/dor border
In north Dorset the blood test is causing havoke. Heard of one place where the blood test was done and animals removed. Following skin test threw up a double Inconclusive so blood test was repeated 6 weeks after the first and more failed the bloods second time round than failed the first.Drop of 58 percent new breakdowns in the Glos cull area compared to several non cull areas. Somerset a drop of 21 percent.
In one survey they did not count herds going clear after a cull, if they had been under TB2 at the beginning. As daft as that may sound. And taken to a logical conclusion, if they had all been under TB2 at the start, then no benefit would be logged as they went clear.
Interesting that so much money put into biosecurity - not for cattle but to keep badgers away from cattle yards, feed and water. Grazed grass? They forgot that.
matthew
Member
- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
I'm not surprised. Gamma ifn is a blunt instrument.
It is not used in some EU countries as a primary test. Any positives are isolated and confirmed with a skin test for that reason.
There are no depths this government will not plumb, to kill more cattle, but leave infectious badgers scattered by their current gatling gun approach to disease control.
- Location
- Breconshire
Interesting that so much money put into biosecurity - not for cattle but to keep badgers away from cattle yards, feed and water. Grazed grass? They forgot that.
Every time... I had a "discussion" some years ago about biosecurity from a Ministry wallah and decided then that the advice, was well meaning but complete drivel...
"Keep the badger from drinking at a water trough as they might dribble into the water...". Then 20 secs later it's peeing and a crapping and a digging up the grassland.
Spot bloody on as always
matthew
Member
- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
It always amuses me the recommended height of feed troughs. The figures given are rubbish when you look at Prof. Tim Roper’s Videos. Badgers swung their bums in at 4’ 3” . At which height, cattle couldn’t eat. Giraffes?
Spot bloody on as always
Sad isn’t it?
that and bloody stupid
RobFZS
Member
General public must think it's absurd that you have to turn your farm in to a fortress to keep out badgers spreading TBFair do's, the bTB coverage tonight was very good. Two strongly pro cull (it's definitely working), followed by Dom Dyer who at least was unable to spout his lies about 'ten minutes to die....blah blah blah...' followed by a piece on biosecurity which was entirely about keeping badgers out of yards and cattle sheds.
Nice one, Countryfile - and I don't often say that.
thatlldaespot
Member
And of course it is, beyond absurd in fact, which is why it's so good that the largely suburban audience for Countryfile see this. It obliges them to accept that badgers spread TB.