Guess they might as well forget IRS and just have reactors, probably 60% of our 500 head will have been IRS,If your in a cull area you will have no choice if a new breakdown.
Another new rule is that IR's have to stay on the farm that they were found to be an IR for life even if they go clear at the next test..
All agreed by the NFU so im told.
I know of a farm where they had 10 reactors and 21 IR's out of 70 cows, next test did the blood test as well, they have now got 21 cows left...
Out of all the cattle they took all the skin tested all bar one reactors had Lesions on kill, out of the blood tested ones taken they found lesions in 1 animal...