milkmaid
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
Posts: 7153
Location: isle of lewis
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 Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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and please sign this
nobody incuding me minds paying for it ,but it has to be ordered before 31 of oct or ,it will not be ready for next year ,and it has to be under written by the goverment
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Bluetongue/
does anyone mind if i post in the louge as well
without it this could be what we are facing next year
from a farmer in holland
taken from the fwi
"We are also in middle of it(BT), I have allready lost more then 10% of my flock ewes, lambs I don't know at the moment, and 40% of my pedigree ewes and 80% of my shearling rams and ramlambs.
Lots of them were allready sold!
In our shed there are about 170 sheep who are recovering at the moment, they have been very sick, very high fever, lost a lot of wait and possible also lost their lambs.
We check our sheep twice a day now, when you sheep standing on her own, head and ears down, a empty belly, sometimes a thick head, thick ears and nose, they can't swallow any more, so water is coming out of their mouth, you have to take her, inject with antibioticum, something for pain and fever, put her in the shed out of sunlight.
When they have all this, you are to late.Sometimes, I'm with the sheep in the morning, everything OK, in the afternoon, one ill, take her home and in the evening she is allready dead.
their are so many varities about the disease, lots of them get thick legs, fleece from the legs is not strong enough to keep the water inside.
As you can see, years of breeding, selecting good animals, is all gone in a couple of weeks |
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