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Bodger



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 06 5:43 am    Post subject: Manouvres this Morning Reply with quote
    

I've got to persuade my entire herd of four not only to go into but stay in a small pig sty this morning.

The vets coming between 10 and 11 to do my first TB and bruccelosis test here since I started keeping cattle again.

Coluld have a little fun this morning

@Calli



Joined: 03 Jul 2005
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Location: Galway
PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 06 8:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Go western and saddle up Dolly?

Yeehaa!

Bodger



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 06 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Phew a lot easier than anticipated thank goodness.

The vets going to return on Friday to check the results. He can just have a look at them in the field to see if there are any reactors

@Calli



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 06 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Just asked them kindly or a bucket of feed? Well done cowboy!

alison
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 06 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Good luck.

You can't help but worry until they give you the all clear.

Are you tested every year, or every 2. We are every year here.

Bodger



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 06 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I think its every two years. I dont think that we are in a hot spot

RichardW



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Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales
PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 06 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

As a new herd we had to be tested every year for 3 years then it moves to the parish testing interval (every 4 years as we are a low risk area). Luckily the first test was as soon as we moved in & our last test is coming up soon. Do you have to have pre movment tests too? We do at the min but wont once we have had our last of the 4 tests done.

Justme

Bodger



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 06 6:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Just me.
We are lucky to be up here in North Wales.
There's a lady on another site in Mid Wales who has just had half her herd come back as positive after the previous test in February was negative. Thats twenty odd animals out of atotal of 40 something !
Thats heart breaking !

mochyn



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 06 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

bodger wrote:
Just me.
We are lucky to be up here in North Wales.
There's a lady on another site in Mid Wales who has just had half her herd come back as positive after the previous test in February was negative. Thats twenty odd animals out of atotal of 40 something !
Thats heart breaking !


Now I know why I don't have cattle.

alison
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 06 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We are on annual testing and test before every movement.

Nanny



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 06 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

alison wrote:
We are on annual testing and test before every movement.


we were sent that letter alison

luckily it was after lettice went to live elsewhere because that would have been the straw that broke our backs i think

we were moving millie and lettice twice a year and theat woudl have been too much for us

alison
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 06 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Fortunately ours move before slaughter, then I think there is no testing, but I am still hoping to sell a small group, and they will have to get tested again.

Nanny



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 06 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

we had a letter not that long ago that said that we would have to have any cattle tested so many days before any movement

would have been SO difficult for us

alison
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 06 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It is a big pain, isn't it. I have every sympathy Nanny.

Bodger, when do you get your results.

Bodger



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 06 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

TB testing OK. Just the Brucellosis to go

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