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Concern over bought in cattle and TB

  • 18-11-2016 11:00pm
    #1
    cacs
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    Bought a couple of incalf heifers today. Just looked at here cards. One heifers had two owners and first owner had a tb tested five times in a year as a yearly. The only thing I figure is the herd was locked up. What are your thoughts


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  • #2
    J.O. Farmer
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    cathal irwin wrote: »
    Bought a couple of incalf heifers today. Just looked at here cards. One heifers had two owners and first owner had a tb tested five times in a year as a yearly. The only thing I figure is the herd was locked up. What are your thoughts

    Firstly it's strange all 5 tb tests would be on the card as it's declaring no animal failed. Even when locked up I thought it was the last clear test that went on the card.
    The other thing is she's passed the test each time. Had the second owner her for long.


  • #3
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,046 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    Nowadays cards are stamped and returned after each test as long as that animal is clear.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • #4
    cacs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭cacs


    J.O. Farmer wrote: »
    Firstly it's strange all 5 tb tests would be on the card as it's declaring no animal failed. Even when locked up I thought it was the last clear test that went on the card.
    The other thing is she's passed the test each time. Had the second owner her for long.

    The second owner had her for around 15 months passed TB test fine. Which is great but you would be nervous if TB nonetheless


  • #5
    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    cathal irwin wrote: »
    The second owner had her for around 15 months passed TB test fine. Which is great but you would be nervous if TB nonetheless

    Even if the first herd was locked up it'd be 2 clear tests before that herd was free so that's another 4 months on top of the 15 months she was away from it.
    I think there's no point in worrying about. She might go down at some stage but then so might some of your other cattle. I personally don't think that she's any higher risk than any of your other cattle in that regard.
    Every time you have a test there's a chance something will go down but yet we keep cattle. There's worse things could happen like having TB yourself.


  • #6
    cacs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭cacs


    J.O. Farmer wrote: »
    Even if the first herd was locked up it'd be 2 clear tests before that herd was free so that's another 4 months on top of the 15 months she was away from it.
    I think there's no point in worrying about. She might go down at some stage but then so might some of your other cattle. I personally don't think that she's any higher risk than any of your other cattle in that regard.
    Every time you have a test there's a chance something will go down but yet we keep cattle. There's worse things could happen like having TB yourself.

    Yea you have a point thanks


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