- Location
- South Molton
Maybe a similar person who looks after your stock whilst you working off farm?
Geronimo.
- Thread starter Castle Farm
- Start date
Water Wheel
Member
Todays BBC news item again states-
"He is put into isolation away from the rest of the herd at the farm in Wickwar"
Isolation?
I don't think so.
See post 222 31st August for picture of isolation.
I've emailed BBC twice on this point.
Perhaps others could too.
"He is put into isolation away from the rest of the herd at the farm in Wickwar"
Isolation?
I don't think so.
See post 222 31st August for picture of isolation.
I've emailed BBC twice on this point.
Perhaps others could too.
Water Wheel
Member
Post 222
Geronimo in isolation!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Inconclusive or not, lesions found at pm or not, there is a test and a process for what should happen after it.
Suspect alpacas will soon become exempt from tb testing. And somehow BBC will blame farmers.
Suspect alpacas will soon become exempt from tb testing. And somehow BBC will blame farmers.
- Location
- Limousin
It's all a joke. If I had been unhappy with the 2 ministry tests from 4 years ago, I would have been testing the animal on dozens of occasions since then, which I am sure she will have done. But presumably any subsequent tests still turned up a positive result and been conveniently filed in the bin.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
That is deeply depressing. All the hassle we have with keeping our reactors separate and she does that.
Water Wheel
Member
What is even more depressing is the BBC repeating her assertion, time and again, that he was in isolation when their own filming shows that he was not.
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Interesting to see that her "vet" is actually a media savvy campaigner who has always fought the badger cull, is a former MAFF employee and is a director of Prion Research Group (which publishes independent scientific research and campaigns on animal protection issues)
He doesn't seem to actually work as a hands on vet in any way, shape or form from what I can see.
Poor reporting imo.
He doesn't seem to actually work as a hands on vet in any way, shape or form from what I can see.
Poor reporting imo.
matthew
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- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
BBC headlines - no lesions.
Christine Middlemess (sp) - we have lesions.
Agriland - lesions found.
Post-mortem exam results on Geronimo confirm 'TB-like' lesions
UK chief veterinary officer Dr. Christine Middlemiss has confirmed signs of TB in the well-known alpaca, Geronimo, after completing its post-mortem
www.agriland.ie
Amongst all this mess, is the appalling last few hours of this animal - 100 per cent down to his owner, who abandoned him to a mob of screaming 'supporters' , police and vets in full protective gear.
Personally i would have rounded up the mob and coralled them, hooked the owner out of her hidey hole, and insisted that she present the animal in his pen, secure and isolated. A media junkie, with no thought for Geronimo at all - imo.
A berluddy shambles.
Av Gorritt
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- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
It looks like it will all go on and on for a time yet . I read that she's about to sue "the authorities " over the way they handled the removal . She's saying that they shouldn't have used a rope to drag it out , when there was it's own head collar available , thereby causing it great stress . If she'd done as she should have done , not alerted the appalling media circus , and quietly led it out into the trailer , none of the scenes would have happened . It's my opinion that the responsibility involved in keeping animals ( of any kind ) will always involve the possibility , or necessity, to cull one or more . It was her responsibility to see the job through to the end , seeing that it was done properly , and not skulk away in hiding
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Agreed. Part of me thinks that people could/should be held to that, and action taken against them if they do no. A bit like not turning up to court when summoned, reporting for police bail, or some such. I guess what I'm saying is somewhere in all of this it becomes a criminal offence not to abide by the law and your legal responsibilities.
- Location
- Sedgefield
As Geronimo was obviously not isolated from other Alpacas. See the photo previously mentioned in this thread..... should all the animals in the herd/flock ( dunno what a group of alpacas is called) also be TB tested !?!??!
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Yes!
Owner should also face some sort of action (even if just a letter detailing breach) for allowing it to mix with other animals.
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
P.S collective noun for a = herd
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Perhaps the collective noun should be an “infection“ of alpacas?
- Location
- DD9.
I’d propose a “circus” of alpacas
matthew
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- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
Punta.
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
I specifically Googled it in case it happened to be an entertaining one…..I think they should adopt your suggestion!!
- Location
- Shropshire
That’s one letter off being perfected
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
