TB areas explained

[John Deere 8530]

Hello
Can anyone explain the TB areas and testing please as I've looked on the government websites and can't make much sense of it. I'm looking to buy some calves but they are in a TB1 area and I'm in a TB4 area, would I have to test just the incoming cattle or the whole herd? Also if one had TB what would happen to my farm etc.
Thank you

 

[John Chance]

Ask your neighbours what they think.

 

[chaffcutter]

@matthew ?

 

[joe soapy]

Dont know the rules, but Wales has just announced new plan

 

[matthew]

Any cattle coming into a 4 year testing area from Edge area or High Risk (annual testing) have to be post movement tested within a couple of months of arrival.
If TB is confirmed, I would think the whole herd would have to be checked, unless isolation facilities are approved and licensed prior to the move on.

Could be wrong though.

We are in HRA so are used to annual testing and preMT - sadly. And restrictions.

 

[mo!]

You've described pretty much what we have been doing. Animals coming on from TB1 must be skin tested after 60 days and before 120 days. You will pay for this and your vet should do it. If you get a breakdown then the whole herd will need 2 skin (short interval tests) 60 days apart. You will not be able to move cattle on in that time. You will most likely have to do a Gamma test which will probably give some positives due to the sensitivity of the test. If you get 2 clear tests then you can go back to normal life. Less considerable hair and money.

Then your neighbours will get letters saying that they have to skin test their herds, and again at 6 and 12 months. They will stop talking to you.

 

[bovine]

Just don't do it.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Hello
Can anyone explain the TB areas and testing please as I've looked on the government websites and can't make much sense of it. I'm looking to buy some calves but they are in a TB1 area and I'm in a TB4 area, would I have to test just the incoming cattle or the whole herd? Also if one had TB what would happen to my farm etc.
Thank you

Pretty selfish towards all your neighbours I would of thought

 

[kfpben]

Just playing Devils advocate here (I'm in an annual testing area)-

Say you are a calf rearer or cattle finisher in East Anglia, how would you source enough cattle to keep going if you did not source from TB1 or at risk areas? Having been to Essex and Suffolk there's no stock for mile after mile.

 

[Downtrodden Dad]

Cattle from a tb1 at least have been tested 60 days ago. Those from tb4 may have had tb for 4 years! I don't think anywhere could be classed as safe anymore.

 

[had e nuff]

Cattle from a tb1 at least have been tested 60 days ago. Those from tb4 may have had tb for 4 years! I don't think anywhere could be classed as safe anymore.

Our vet reckons Tb1,s are safer.

 

[John Deere 8530]

Just playing Devils advocate here (I'm in an annual testing area)-

Say you are a calf rearer or cattle finisher in East Anglia, how would you source enough cattle to keep going if you did not source from TB1 or at risk areas? Having been to Essex and Suffolk there's no stock for mile after mile.

Exactly that's our problem, there is very little cattle in the area.

 

[had e nuff]

Took stores to market yesterday, first one's since we became tb1. No difference in trade.

 

[Sid]

Cattle from a tb1 at least have been tested 60 days ago. Those from tb4 may have had tb for 4 years! I don't think anywhere could be classed as safe anymore.

Cattle at Exeter on friday from tb4 area. Big risk imho being naive.
These animal haven't been tested for years.