Pre Tb test stress

[Jerry]

Bloody hate the night before the tb read day. Vet due at 1:30pm tomorrow.

stress of moving groups of cattle to get ready, stress on me and family.

Tomorrow night it will be be a good drink to celebrate a pass or a bad night to drown my sorrows….joys of living in a 6mth test area.

 

[crashbox]

After so many years flip flopping in and out of TB shutdown I don't even notice now, of course always gutted when we get that first reactor because it means doing it all again in 60 days, rather than 180.

We are reading tomorrow too.

Good luck.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Been stuck "down" for a little over 12 months now. Not lost many, just can't string 2 clear tests together. Testing again next week.
The hassle and time of testing so often is the biggest bugbear. But I tend to just take what comes with an attitude of what will be will be.

 

[tinsheet]

I try to do blood testing or pd ing at the same time get something positive out of the day!

found a dead red hind in one of the kale fields last winter, 5 months later one reactor, she'd grazed that field over winter. Not rocket science that cause it.

one more clear test required!

 

[Bwcho]

Good luck with the results

 

[Jerry]

Well it’s time for a drink…..

Passed….

 

[Jerry]

I try to do blood testing or pd ing at the same time get something positive out of the day!

found a dead red hind in one of the kale fields last winter, 5 months later one reactor, she'd grazed that field over winter. Not rocket science that cause it.

one more clear test required!

dehorned a few calves and treated a lame cow at same time.

 

[Wood field]

Our results day tomorrow, only a handful of galloways and calves, we got put in a tb1 area , hopefully if alls well tomorrow we go back to a tb4

 

[Y Fan Wen]

I felt really sorry for next door when the gov decided to do a cattle tag check in the middle of lambing!
Weather was atrocious as well, sleet and freezing rain.

 

[Massey mad]

We're reading again tomorrow in lincs. Been on 6 monthly for the last 18months now and it looks set to continue. Testing incalf cows and heifers and stores in the backend and cows, new born calves and stores in the spring. Can only be described as a massive welfare crisis for man and beast all the while we are still yet to have a reactor or inconclusive it's just a complete joke we help out tb test on 14 other farms and it's the same for every single one of them aswell. All to keep them good for nothing barstewards in the APHA office warm all winter, as an industry we're ruled by morons with suits and laptops, we've now got people coming round from the apha doing badger surveys to see how much badger activity there is. This problem could be solved pretty much overnight but that would mean the pricks with degrees in dishonesty and incompetence would be out of a job so that won't happen.

 

[beardface]

dehorned a few calves and treated a lame cow at same time.

Always good to get a few jobs done at once, makes you feel ahead of the game.

 

[Wood field]

Just had vet round, tb clear , I asked if we go back to four yearly and he just shrugged

 

[Farmer Keith]

Huge swathe of us just been put into a hotspot up here off a 4. Winter test isn’t going to be too bad but rounding up 400 cattle from all over the place in summer is going to be fun and games.