Here we go again...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6990913.stm
Let's hope it is something else!
Oh NO! Not again...Foot & Mouth
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arrggh!
everything crossed that its something else.
everything crossed that its something else.
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anounced on BBC news
opps posted wrong link
I am not shallow!
opps posted wrong link
I am not shallow!
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Red
I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
my website: colour it green
etsy shop
blog
I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
my website: colour it green
etsy shop
blog
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Just heard the case in Lanark has tested negative. We are all thrown out with our work plan for the next few weeks; and currently they are working like mad out there, moving everything across the farm that can still be moved. Just got a load of cattle in that we'd been waiting for, and that has just made it before the restrictions took hold. 
Fortunately, they got a load of lambs off to slaughter this morning, got a load of gimmers in from market this morning - but we'll be in trouble with the tups that should have been bought tomorrow or Friday. Arghhh! 
Fortunately, they got a load of lambs off to slaughter this morning, got a load of gimmers in from market this morning - but we'll be in trouble with the tups that should have been bought tomorrow or Friday. Arghhh!
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Problem is, if this keeps going, we'll all be running out of grass soon. And with the feed prices as they are this year due to the rain and lack of sun... And no decent hay to be got anywhere - not one of farming's best years on record!
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Good news: It sounds like the Scottish cases were false alarms. Scotland should be safe from bluetongue because the midges up there don't carry bluetongue, and the winters are just cold enough to kill it off.
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We were lucky - and unlucky.
I decided to have a pig slaughtered a fortnight early and as soon as the FMD restrictions were lifted because I wasn't convinced the disease free status would continue. The FMD virus can survive in the soil for up to 28 days, in water for 50 days, and in straw/hay/sileage for up to 20 weeks. So personally, I tend to think there's a chance of it breaking out for up to 20 weeks from the date of the "final" case.
Of course, economic imperatives mean the government will lift restrictions long before the end of 20 weeks (as it did) so to me it made sense to get our movement to slaughter over and done with - just in case. Luckily I did!
The bad luck came in because we've just bought a top-notch sow - from Lanarkshire of all places. Fortunately, the sick sheep there proved to be just a scare. We should have been collecting the sow in the next fortnight, but I suspect we'll be waiting longer than that this time around.
As she's to be in-pig, that means we need to move her before she's three months or so along to reduce the stress on her. And guess what. she went in with the stud boar two days before the new FMD case.
It sure makes life interesting.
I decided to have a pig slaughtered a fortnight early and as soon as the FMD restrictions were lifted because I wasn't convinced the disease free status would continue. The FMD virus can survive in the soil for up to 28 days, in water for 50 days, and in straw/hay/sileage for up to 20 weeks. So personally, I tend to think there's a chance of it breaking out for up to 20 weeks from the date of the "final" case.
Of course, economic imperatives mean the government will lift restrictions long before the end of 20 weeks (as it did) so to me it made sense to get our movement to slaughter over and done with - just in case. Luckily I did!
The bad luck came in because we've just bought a top-notch sow - from Lanarkshire of all places. Fortunately, the sick sheep there proved to be just a scare. We should have been collecting the sow in the next fortnight, but I suspect we'll be waiting longer than that this time around.
As she's to be in-pig, that means we need to move her before she's three months or so along to reduce the stress on her. And guess what. she went in with the stud boar two days before the new FMD case.
It sure makes life interesting.
