Schmallenberg?

[llamedos]

Mid Carmarthenshire here and mid January one of the vets said she had seen one Schmallenberg calving and plenty of lambs. Her view was it was about as she was seeing too many cases with classic deformities to put down to anything else. Obviously not feeding the info back to APHA though.

There seems to be plenty anecdotal evidence about, but that is all

 

[GTB]

Local vet's newsletter said they had confirmed a number of cases. Anectdotal evidence would suggest the same I'm afraid.

 

[John Chance]

There are confirmed antibody positive blood tests in several herds in NE England (Durham and Northumberland) that haven't started calving yet; including us. We tested because we had fertility problems in a bulling group. Not looking forward to calving. The positives are spread around the region. Either we were unlucky or there's a lot about. I'm told that field immunity after infection only lasts 6 to 9 months. I've ordered sufficient vaccine to do the cattle after calving, but there won't be any available (manufactured) unless there is sufficient demand. If anyone wants to get vaccine you need to order some from your vet and hope that enough people put an order in for the manufacturers to bother to make some.

 

[Sandpit Farm]

There are a fair few lambs and calves around now. Has anybody seen any signs of Schmallenburg? I understand there is some funding available for testing possible cases but I will need to investigate.

Would be interesting to see if we could build a picture of where cases have been seen.

 

[Cardi]

Heard of quite a few cases in lambs in west wales in the last month.
We don't start lambing at home for another week so it's fingers crossed.

 

[Man_in_black]

I know there have been few confirmed cases in the south West.

 

[General-Lee]

Confirmed here in our Jan lambers lost a lot pre Christmas so whether it's connected or not.

 

[RWG Contracts]

I think @General-Lee said he had this?

 

[General-Lee]

I think @General-Lee said he had this?

What is it with people not reading my posts am I invisible....hello!!

 

[General-Lee]

Oh and I've not had it personally!

Just started lambing my own touching wood 5 lambs all living so far.

 

[RWG Contracts]

What is it with people not reading my posts am I invisible....hello!!

Hadn't noticed that. Sorry general

 

[General-Lee]

Hadn't noticed that. Sorry general

Dan did it earlier and the posts were on the same page!

 

[gone up the hill]

Yep plenty of farms around here have had cases this year ( esp flocks/ herds lambing/calving in Nov/ Dec )

 

[llamedos]

There are a fair few lambs and calves around now. Has anybody seen any signs of Schmallenburg? I understand there is some funding available for testing possible cases but I will need to investigate.

Would be interesting to see if we could build a picture of where cases have been seen.

See post #19 https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/schmallenberg.151536/#post-3481824

 

[Sandpit Farm]

So sorry, that thread didn't come up in my search. Mods feel free to delete this one

 

[bovine]

There are a fair few lambs and calves around now. Has anybody seen any signs of Schmallenburg? I understand there is some funding available for testing possible cases but I will need to investigate.

Would be interesting to see if we could build a picture of where cases have been seen.

This is the problem, only 55 cases confirmed countrywide. Need to encourage anyone with suspicious cases to contact their vet and get some sample off for testing (that should be free now). We won't get anywhere making a presumptive diagnosis if we want a vaccine back etc.

We have 2 positives in the practice so far.

 

[John Chance]

We have 2 positives in the practice so far.

Is that blood test positive without clinical signs (or maybe not born yet) or SBV type birth defects and blood test positive ?

 

[bovine]

I don't see any great value in blood testing for antibody, what does it tell us?

These two are PCR testing (looking for the virus itself) in the brains of deformed lambs.

It will be late spring before calves are born from the susceptible window.

 

[Forever Fendt]

Had two lambs born with deformities here long necks small heads and fused legs ,one over the weekend and one 4 weeks ago, fingers crossed for cows calving in 3weeks time

 

[Muck Spreader]

I don't see any great value in blood testing for antibody, what does it tell us?

These two are PCR testing (looking for the virus itself) in the brains of deformed lambs.

It will be late spring before calves are born from the susceptible window.

Agree, but Blue Tongue could be mistaken Schmallenburg.