TB

Letter from Roger Blowey today in vet record.
21% of roadkill badgers in edge area of \cheshire TB infected.
In small survey nr Stockport LRA , 30 badgers collected, 8 (26%) tb positive, 7 with same type as Cheshire.
Stockport LRA area in 2014 1 reactor out of 3450 cattle, =0.03% , badgers 26%!!! suggests which direction infection might flow.
Suck that Mr May
 

Henarar

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Letter from Roger Blowey today in vet record.
21% of roadkill badgers in edge area of \cheshire TB infected.
In small survey nr Stockport LRA , 30 badgers collected, 8 (26%) tb positive, 7 with same type as Cheshire.
Stockport LRA area in 2014 1 reactor out of 3450 cattle, =0.03% , badgers 26%!!! suggests which direction infection might flow.
Suck that Mr May
would that indicate that TB infected badgers are more likely to be killed on the road than none TB infected ones
 

friar

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A farmer in the Village recently had a cow found at the abattoir with TB Lesions. As he was in a cull zone they said he had to have a Gamma Interferon blood test on his cows as well as a Skin test. The two test were meant to be carried out at the same time, but alas the gamma interferon test could not be carried out on the day the cows were injected. Some cows were done on the reading day & some on a later day. Would this cause more false positives, as with the blood test for johne's disease you are told to wait for at least 45 days after a TB Skin test?
 
They aren’t doing a priming skin test in all cases.

What is very wrong and should have been challenged at the time, is .Deathrow adding stuff to a contract already signed and paid for.

I can’t tell you much about gamma except it is a blunt instrument and is not used as a slaughter test in some EU countries.

http://bovinetb.blogspot.com/2019/05/natural-england-defra-how-to-kill-cull.html
I’d just like to say a huge thanks for the Bovinetb.blog its been a great source of information and thought-provoking discussion, I will miss it.

Thanks.

I don’t do Face book or Twitter so never sure if I’m just missing all the current bTB debate , but it does seem to have gone quiet. I have seen hardly any comment on the FG article on the threat to badger culling. There may well be a good argument for just quietly getting on with things .

Anyway Thanks again for all the work you have put in in the past.
 

AGN76

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I’d just like to say a huge thanks for the Bovinetb.blog its been a great source of information and thought-provoking discussion, I will miss it.

Thanks.

I don’t do Face book or Twitter so never sure if I’m just missing all the current bTB debate , but it does seem to have gone quiet. I have seen hardly any comment on the FG article on the threat to badger culling. There may well be a good argument for just quietly getting on with things .

Anyway Thanks again for all the work you have put in in the past.
Think the latest is, some ignorant posstots put in a legal challenge, the powers that be roll over.
 
I’d just like to say a huge thanks for the Bovinetb.blog its been a great source of information and thought-provoking discussion, I will miss it.

Thanks.

I don’t do Face book or Twitter so never sure if I’m just missing all the current bTB debate , but it does seem to have gone quiet. I have seen hardly any comment on the FG article on the threat to badger culling. There may well be a good argument for just quietly getting on with things .

Anyway Thanks again for all the work you have put in in the past.

Thanks. Appreciated.

I don’t do Faceache or .Twitter, but both the sites (links on the blog) are doing a good job. Not as rude as us, but you can’t have everything.


Think the latest is, some ignorant posstots put in a legal challenge, the powers that be roll over.

As with Corvids.
UnNatural England will stop these culls by default.
 

Cowski

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South West
Thanks. Appreciated.

I don’t do Faceache or .Twitter, but both the sites (links on the blog) are doing a good job. Not as rude as us, but you can’t have everything.




As with Corvids.
UnNatural England will stop these culls by default.
This graph is very pleasing, hopeful that NFU legal team can keep batting back the legal challenges to the cull
 

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