TB testing

I was going to make the point about the zero grazer but this problem is around long before them, but a neighbour of mine went down during the spring, his cows were clear in the autumn but he was zero grazing an outside block and he is blaming it on the zero grazer as there is a lot of deers where he was zero grazing

I really don’t know but my friend was doing a lot of zero grazing and he had a lot of abortions so eventually after a long time it was discovered that the cows were aborting from **** in the grass that was coming in the zero grazer so that had to stop zero grazing that area

Passed a dead badger on the side of the road about a mile away last week. Passed another one dead today. I don’t know if there been shot or hit by cars. Often heard that they are sick and get hit by cars. I’ve to test again at the end of the month cause lots around me are down. Every 4 months until the department say otherwise. We could get a Covid vaccine in couple of years. And there is a tb vaccine. But no desire to use it.

Got locked up last October. Clear tests in December and February Both of which I have to pay for.

Have very heavy cull cows and a couple of bullocks ready for factory but afraid to sell in case of any showing leasions. Have yearlings to sell usually a couple of repeat customers buy mid March and I don't want to lose these men otherwise I would have took them to the mart.

Need replacement dairy stock but most offered for sale are more than 6 months tested, more hassle and risk if I buy them.

Some f##k up of a system.

I thought that too?

1 test was Dec 2023 next was Feb 2024

We read our tb test this morning. An Australian vet. New enough in the practice. Every animal went through the crush number taken and neck felt or measured for reading. The way it should be. I know we all want a clear test, but we're paying for them to be tested and read properly so it should be done right . Took 3.5 hours to read them. No tb in Australia. We'll never get rid of it here the way some vets test. We are clear