Nick
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TB Testing and movement of cows.What are the requirements for TB testing prior to a move?
I have one I'd like to move to a bull for a brief, but romantic, interlude and another that needs to go to slaughter for my freezer. Both were tested about 3 months ago, and none of my farmers actually know if I must retest one, or both before their next journey. And if I have to have her tested to visit the bull, how long can she stay before she'll need a retest to come home again?
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Treacodactyl
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I have no idea at all about such things, but would the bull also need a recent test?
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Nick
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Potentially, but that's covered, he's had his very recently. Getting the bull to us is an alternative plan. However, there are too many Lady Cows about for that to be ideal.
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dpack
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60 days from first part of test
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Nick
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Even to the abattoir?
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dpack
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that is farm to farm , im not sure about last journey
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alison
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Last journey needs no test.
Sex journey needs to have 60 day test, and this is for either.
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Nick
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Cheers Alison.
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RichardW
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Depends on your testing interval. Are you on 48 months tests? Do you have to pre move test? Some dont.
Justme
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Nick
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Um. Annual, I think...
Hereford's a Hotspot.
I've got some bumf somewhere. Probably. Filed. Somewhere. Ish.
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milkmaid
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hasn't a new ruling just come out about premovement testing
i thought i read something about it in the farmers weekly 
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Rob R
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Don't know about new rules, but the VLA have challenged the thinking behind cattle-to-cattle transmission with the findings that bTB strains have remained geographically linked over time suggesting that there is a static factor behind the disease.
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RichardW
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If you arecon 12 monthly testing then you will need a pre move test.
Justme
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alison
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I forgot different parts of the country had different intervals.
We are on 12 monthly here.
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