Couldn't agree more. Just like @Anymulewilldo , we had nothing fancy but was desperate not to lose stock. We had a lot of lame sheep due to being shut up so tight and farm help unable to work due to having stock themselves. One vet said that at a push he could get stock taken on welfare but I didn't bite and we carried on. Funny, when covid started to get serious I had that same feeling of impending doom that we lived with during FMD.
Foot & Mouth
- Thread starter AlfM
- Start date
muleman
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As time went on no doubt those that were culled were better off financially, but no amount of money can replace some of the other losses some of which are unseen, family wise and healthwise.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
D and H creaming themselves sending emails out about the confirmed foot and mouth in Norfolk. Absolutely shameless twit S
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
I said T. W. A. T. S.
He did the right thing by the sheep though. Not their fault the government is incompetent.
Was
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
who is D&H?
Killers or agents
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
Yes I had one of them, yet they can't tell me when I'm getting the bulk tank cleaner I ordered two months ago.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Finding their arse with both hands is too much to ask for this lot! I agree, it's a miracle we haven't had ASF before now.
Just finished for the day and having a dram before tea
Wife announces there's suspected foot and mouth
I've no enough whisky in the house if it's true, says I
Found this thread
Thank F*CK
Getting too old to suffer the maudlin hangovers
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Regards this FMD scare today, very interesting (and surprising) how little coverage it got in the mainstream media. Hopefully will have worked in our favour as most of the public will be none the wiser. But it does show how little importance the movers in shakers in London attach to our industry, a point well made by @JP1 in the other thread.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Covid ( like Flu ) is going to be around for decades if not hundreds of years!
Are you really saying you are going to shut yourself away and not do anything every time cases rise and that events large or small should not be allowed to happen and people should not mix closely going forwards in case a few people catch covid from these events/ mixing closely??
Well if you want to waste your life then carry on and do the above but most other people just want to crack on and get back to normal day to day life!
- Location
- North West
In light of everything that has happened today - even with FMD suspicions being negated - do we think it’ll have a knock on effect of prices, sheep, pigs or cattle alike?
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
No for cattle and sheep.
Quite possible for pigs thou it will do so as the powers that be seem intent on destroying that sector of UK AG!
If you're going to lecture on bluddy covid go onto the covid threads, it's bad enough there without polluting other threads.
muleman
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Interesting the reactions to this post, those of us that were involved in it at the time give it a casual 'like' and the others give it a 'wow' and an 'angry'.our next door neighbour is a retired vet. He went of assisting the ministry vets in 01. He reckons you wouldn’t believe what they were told in the briefings. He went too one farm, lambs had a touch of scald. Nothing too worry about. No visible lesions of salivation at all. Next day a fresh out of uni vet went too the same farm, condemned the lot. Pete tried arguing that those animals were perfectly healthy. Was told too sit down and do as he was told. That triggered a contagious cull around that farm. Non tested positive. Another farm the tup had been at the rolled barley then gone out into the field and laid out with bloat, frothing at the mouth. Pete went too it, let it down and it got up and trotted off. Again a young fresh out of uni vet reported it as salivation due too F&M. The bosses weren’t interested in ANY diagnosis other than F&M. Pete only stuck it 5 weeks then came back too his practise. He said it was mass murder, not controlled culling.
Its not a shock to us to read it because its what we saw and heard and felt regularly.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Doesn't make sense though, pork is cheap protein. Theirs mates running the supermarkets must be making a good margin on it at the moment, mind you.