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[dave6470]

The rest of the herd will be blood tested next week and after that we will be on a sixty day testing cycle. Hopefully i will go clear within 3 tests but who knows ?? A big turnaround from last year when the herd was very clean with not a trace of a lump . The thought of a prolonged restriction worries me as since i only rear about twenty replacements a year and sell the rest of the calves . Having to hold on to all the bulls as well as the beef calves could be a right pain in the butt . I never really kept beef cattle and extra wotk is not what i need. I grow grain fo my low return but enjoyable enterprise and idont want to add calf to beef to the list !!!
The Dept will be trapping badgers next week to try and find the source but i wont be holding my breath .

Dept trapping badgers hope there changed there protocols they did that on a neighbours farm 6 of them in biohazard suits trapped two tested one found to have tb let the other go without testing it said they could only test one on any farm

 

[Beef farmer]

Dept trapping badgers hope there changed there protocols they did that on a neighbours farm 6 of them in biohazard suits trapped two tested one found to have tb let the other go without testing it said they could only test one on any farm

Sounds about right!
Refer to post 10456

 

[The Agrarian]

That's alright if the setts are on your farm. But in Northern Ireland farm blocks are small, often very small, and the Badgers can be in your neighbours field two or three fields away, or a wood or glen. A badger could pass through ten farms in a night.

 

[Cowcorn]

Sounds about right!
Refer to post 10456

As far as i know all badgers caught are tested infected ones removed and sett
monitored till badgers are clear . Problem is new badgers may move in or a sick " wandering badger " gets iin

 

[Beef farmer]

That's alright if the setts are on your farm. But in Northern Ireland farm blocks are small, often very small, and the Badgers can be in your neighbours field two or three fields away, or a wood or glen. A badger could pass through ten farms in a night.

They don't need to live on site.

 

[Conrod96]

Got closed for 18months here got open in January got away lucky and only lost 3 animals over 6 tests, 1st time with Tb on the farm for 20 years and moved onto 6 month testing for now had the test couple of weeks back with one inconclusive so she has had to be isolated and tested again at the end of the month. I’d try speaking to some farmers in aghadowey area outside Coleraine they were losing 20s and 30s or animals every test but seem to have got cleared up now whatever they have done

 

[dave6470]

That's alright if the setts are on your farm. But in Northern Ireland farm blocks are small, often very small, and the Badgers can be in your neighbours field two or three fields away, or a wood or glen. A badger could pass through ten farms in a night.

Yep that can be a problem I have one neighbour who is a hobby sheep Farmer won't let the department on to his land to check for sets makes my blood boil as I know there's set on his land in an old railway embankment

 

[Beef farmer]

You can't mistake a track a pig makes entering your land from next door.

 

[Cowcorn]

Yep that can be a problem I have one neighbour who is a hobby sheep Farmer won't let the department on to his land to check for sets makes my blood boil as I know there's set on his land in an old railway embankment

My problem stems from a good 20 acre field that ajoins the cow paddocks . We rented it for tillage for years but when the owner died the niece who inherited it planted it with trees . Its now full of badgers .

 

[dave6470]

Got closed for 18months here got open in January got away lucky and only lost 3 animals over 6 tests, 1st time with Tb on the farm for 20 years and moved onto 6 month testing for now had the test couple of weeks back with one inconclusive so she has had to be isolated and tested again at the end of the month. I’d try speaking to some farmers in aghadowey area outside Coleraine they were losing 20s and 30s or animals every test but seem to have got cleared up now whatever they have done

Still not completely cleared up in aghadowey I'm not that far away it's definitely better than it was

 

[Conrod96]

Still not completely cleared up in aghadowey I'm not that far away it's definitely better than it was

It’s always going to be a problem as far as I can see grandfather was saying at the test the other they have been doing this for 40 years and still no further forward

 

[dave6470]

It’s always going to be a problem as far as I can see grandfather was saying at the test the other they have been doing this for 40 years and still no further forward

Doesn't help that the skin test is not that accurate
Cousin had a clear head test sent cattle to abittor a month later and had 6 or 7 riddled with tb

 

[Mouser]

It's a total farce the whole thing, going round in circles with a test that doesn't work
Farmers need to stand together and at the very least stop this nonsense of testing when the cattle are out. Its pointless. Especially for farms that aren't selling live, absolutely ridiculous to close them down/ make them test in summer .

 

[The Agrarian]

Thats me at the moment. No slaughter until I get a test, for which there's a backlog due to covid, and I've already had to cancel one because of grass. Will have to spend half a day gathering cattle up and hauling home, and put them up in sheds for the week.

 

[it's not over]

Thats me at the moment. No slaughter until I get a test, for which there's a backlog due to covid, and I've already had to cancel one because of grass. Will have to spend half a day gathering cattle up and hauling home, and put them up in sheds for the week.

Are you not in danger of a cross compliance breach by not testing
Summer testing has one advantage.....no feeding to do when you're finished. Currently closed.1down 1 ic back in may. Tested in july.all clear.need another. The test is not perfect but it's all we've got
We are in the stranocum hot spot. Testing every 4 months for years now

 

[Mouser]

Thats me at the moment. No slaughter until I get a test, for which there's a backlog due to covid, and I've already had to cancel one because of grass. Will have to spend half a day gathering cattle up and hauling home, and put them up in sheds for the week.

Costs a fortune in extra labour and lost time, you'd nearly think z was happy about it reading his post.

 

[it's not over]

Costs a fortune in extra labour and lost time, you'd nearly think z was happy about it reading his post.

believe meTheres worse news than being closed for tb .its part of the coarse. Better planning.less labour

 

[Suckndiesel]

Any of yous that have had reactors when they are slaughtered do they find much? Have had around 130 animals taken here in the last 8 years with tb, only 2 which they have confirmed it at the plant.

 

[Beef farmer]

Any of yous that have had reactors when they are slaughtered do they find much? Have had around 130 animals taken here in the last 8 years with tb, only 2 which they have confirmed it at the plant.

Then maybe a carrier in the herd that it testing the immune system of the rest?

 

[dave6470]

Any of yous that have had reactors when they are slaughtered do they find much? Have had around 130 animals taken here in the last 8 years with tb, only 2 which they have confirmed it at the plant.

2 out of 14 in the last 6 years something was found at slaughter