Tebay, Cumbria: We’ve never had it among our cattle here before, but the risk is always there
“It’s not looking good, guys,” said the vet, reaching for his callipers, and our summer plans for the farm suddenly came tumbling down. We were going to sell 17 two?year-old bullocks, two pedigree breeding Galloway cows and one heifer the following day, but needed to test them for TB first – a legal requirement as someone within 3km of our land had a confirmed TB outbreak.
Four days earlier, the vet had injected the cattle with two separate injections that elicit an immune response to bovine and avian tuberculin. One of our nine-month-old calves reacted to the test, so we were given paperwork about TB restrictions and effectively shut down – unable to buy or sell any breeding or store cattle.
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Tebay, Cumbria: We’ve never had it among our cattle here before, but the risk is always there“It’s not looking good, guys,” said the vet, reaching for his callipers, and our summer plans for the farm suddenly came tum...
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