TB testing info?

mrbrendank

i had a tb test in the middle of november and i had 1 cow come up as inconclusive, so i chose to get her retested in 30 days... she came up inconclusive again so was seen as a reactor and taken away and slaughtered on the 3rd of janurary. so now i have to have 2 clear tests 330 days apart. i had a reactor re-test on the 19 of janurary. i said to the vet inspector isnt it too soon. he said no its 60 days from when she first came up as inconclusive. now today i rang the department and they are saying my second reactor re-test will be on the 3rd may! i was thinking another 30 days since the last test. they are now saying the first test was done too soon etc etc. my heads wrecked with this crowd.

Mooooo

mrbrendank wrote: »

i had a tb test in the middle of november and i had 1 cow come up as inconclusive, so i chose to get her retested in 30 days... she came up inconclusive again so was seen as a reactor and taken away and slaughtered on the 3rd of janurary. so now i have to have 2 clear tests 330 days apart. i had a reactor re-test on the 19 of janurary. i said to the vet inspector isnt it too soon. he said no its 60 days from when she first came up as inconclusive. now today i rang the department and they are saying my second reactor re-test will be on the 3rd may! i was thinking another 30 days since the last test. they are now saying the first test was done too soon etc etc. my heads wrecked with this crowd.

It's 2 clear tests 120 days from when the animal left the farm not the date of previous test, generally done 60 days apart. If the second test is around the 120 days after the animal left thats the important part I'd say.

Count Mondego

And after your two clear tests, they'll land at least two tests every year for the next few years.

TITANIUM.

After you get your second clear test your free to sell. For a period of about 3to4 months anyway then you are locked up again from selling as you enter what's now called the post clearence testing regime until you complete that test. WALOS

J.O. Farmer

TITANIUM. wrote: »

After you get your second clear test your free to sell. For a period of about 3to4 months anyway then you are locked up again from selling as you enter what's now called the post clearence testing regime until you complete that test. WALOS

If i understand that correctly and I probably do knowing the geniuses that come up with the rules then after 2 clear tests your cattle present no more risk than anybody else's.
However 3-4 months later based on nothing more than the calender they are sufficiently high risk to warrant being locked up again.
Is it because they think reactors might show up 6-8 months after the reactor was taken away in which case you could've been spreading reactors around the country for 3 or 4 months.

greysides

J.O. Farmer wrote: »

If i understand that correctly and I probably do knowing the geniuses that come up with the rules then after 2 clear tests your cattle present no more risk than anybody else's.
However 3-4 months later based on nothing more than the calender they are sufficiently high risk to warrant being locked up again.
Is it because they think reactors might show up 6-8 months after the reactor was taken away in which case you could've been spreading reactors around the country for 3 or 4 months.

Once upon a time, in a land separated from us only by time, a TB test was deemed to be dependable for only two months. Then suddenly, with the stroke of a pen, as a carrot to get farmers to pay for testing, the very same test was now dependable for 12 months. How the **** could that be justified biologically or statistically? Only politically.

As I understand it, too many herds were going down on six month tests after their clearance test. Herds won't have to test for 6 months but if they want to sell after three months they will have to test then.

TITANIUM.

J.O. Farmer wrote: »

If i understand that correctly and I probably do knowing the geniuses that come up with the rules then after 2 clear tests your cattle present no more risk than anybody else's.
However 3-4 months later based on nothing more than the calender they are sufficiently high risk to warrant being locked up again.
Is it because they think reactors might show up 6-8 months after the reactor was taken away in which case you could've been spreading reactors around the country for 3 or 4 months.

Don't bother trying to understand it J.O. Tis a load of sh1te,
You'd wonder do many of these cattle that "Go down" have TB atall.