Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Your bang on there alps ….I’m reasonably confident the 3 I have will kill out clear …bloods will be negative I’ll get compensated well for value of my cows as I have good ebi ,milk records pedigree regrestiration etc…..what I won’t be compensated for is the loss of milk for these animals …fact 2/3 are in calf to sexed semen to calve next January and the hassle and inconvienence of been locked up till at least December ….it’s just one more kick in the hole for 2024 to throw at anyone restricted

There is an active badger set in a fort in a neighbours farm just over ditch from me …we’re reasonably confident these are healthy badgers but we don’t know ….dept laid traps to try catch and vaccinate or put down badgers few years ago….they gave 2 weeks at it …caught nothing and last we saw of them ….they even left one trap behind and no monitoring done beteeeen Thursday and following Wednesday of Easter weekend 🙄🙄🙄

My neighbour who is down and beside a wood had set guys out last week to go look for sets ….they didn’t go too far into wood because it was tough going and overgrown …they don’t care

I last tested in march all clear and think only 2 with lumps were measured ….both of them had nothing this time other neighbours around us all tested in last 2/4 months all clear ….beteeeen end of march and Christmas this year I will now have 4 tests (in 9 months)…..that’s too many tests in such short time frame in my view and could affect results ….I’d love to have double sided or second crush so they ain’t getting jabbed so many times on one side….tb testing is big business now for Dvo and vets ….they are so far out of there depth as regards trying to eradicate or control it we really need a change in approach and personnel ….only ones to carry the can is the farmer and there is nothing we can do ….anyway rant over

When the cows go through the factory there’s no bullshitting about TB. The dept trace the positives straight away. So they wouldn’t be long knocking on the vets door to ask him/her a few questions.

Also the vet has to notify the Dept prior to the test anyway so they can arrive in unannounced to check what’s being done.

as much as I want to disagree with 2/3 of your posts today …..your are fairly close to the truth I think …..I’d like to blood everything now if I could but due to fact it will throw false positives I’d doubt I would willingly go that route

Look dept and dvos etc are so far out of there depth now in controlling and trying to eradicate this they all need to be hauled in ,replaced if need be and international experts brought in to help us solve this problem which is getting worse …..there is only one group o people suffering in this and that’s farmers as our hands are totally tied and we basically have to do as we are told when locked up

Often found where they're injected with rotavec shows up a lump