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milkmaid
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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Location: isle of lewis
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 Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject: a bit of info on blue tongue |
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this is a pdf ,about birth defects in cattle and abortion in blue tongue infected cattle ,thought to be caused by btv8,i know that there have been a problem in sheep as well
PLEASE DO NOT OPEN IF YOU ARE EASILY UPSET
GRAPHIC PICS
we are now up to 108 cases
http://members.aol.com/cvlonghorns/Mat_infec_BTV8.pdf |
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cookie88
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| 108 this year? |
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milkmaid
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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no since the first notification  |
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cookie88
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| how many this year? |
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milkmaid
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| not sure , |
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milkmaid
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:10 am Post subject: |
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| country file is covering blue tongue |
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bronskibeat
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Roughly 66 confirmed cases pre Christmas, the rest post Christmas detected due to blood testing pre movement. They were all infected before the vector free period. |
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CP
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:43 am Post subject: |
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On Sunday my farming friends vaccinated their sheep & cows with the Bluetongue vaccine.
You have to administer it within 8 hours of opening the bottle, so it was a fairly mammoth task & they're not a large farm either!
Whether it was a coincidence or not we don't know, but after the calves were done they went a bit hyper! They charged up the field & straight on through the fence.
My friends spent the rest of the day searching for them, rounding them up & returning them home. They didn't get to bed until well after midnight & there's still 1 missing, presumed dead.  |
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bronskibeat
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Oh no, thats not good There is quite a bit on the farmtalk pages about vaccination and possible side affects and also on the British Farming Forum. Apparently, some AH offices want to know any odd behaviour/problems related to vaccination, other AH offices dont want to know........ no change there then!! I would suggest they look at farmtalking forum, there is a link to the vaccine manufacturers where you can report things like this. They do keep stressing the vaccine is dead and so it should be 100% fine, no problems and that they have thoroughly field tested it and found no ill effects but as I know only too well, different animals react in different ways to drugs   |
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