Hampshire was today at the centre of a new outbreak on the animal disease bluetongue.
The bluetongue protection zone was extended after a new case of the disease was confirmed in the county, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said.
A case identified in New Forest District means the zone, out of which the movement of susceptible animals is not permitted, has now extended into the districts and boroughs of Salisbury, Test Valley, Eastleigh, Southampton, Fareham and the Isle of Wight, Defra said.
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The wider surveillance zone which covers much of England remains unchanged.
Defra said the disease was identified in a cow as part of pre-movement testing required for moving livestock out of the zones during the ''vector-free period'' when risk of the disease spreading was low. The vector-free period ended on March 15.
A spokeswoman for Defra said the evidence suggested that the cow was infected with the disease, which can kill animals such as sheep and cattle, last year.
There have now been 122 cases of bluetongue in the UK since the disease was first discovered near Ipswich, Suffolk last September, 56 of which have been identified this year.
Posted by: Sceptic, Waterside on 10:01pm Fri 28 Mar 08
[quote][bold]BillyNomates[/bold] wrote:
I hate farmers. Anyone who chooses to liveout in the middle of nowhere obviously has serious character flaws and deserves to go bankrupt.[/quote] You pillock!!
Just because farmers feed meat to cows, poison the land with chemicals, dig up the hedgerows (and therefore ruin the nesting areas for birds), fill in the ditches (and therefore ruin the breeding areas for amphibians etc), let foxhunters dig up fox cubs and stop up fox holes (so they can't escape the childish cowards on horseback) on their land, stop law abiding people from using legitimate rights of way on their land and watch their beef farming colleagues livelihood go down the tubes because they cant afford the current extortionate price of grain to fed their cattle....it doesnt make them bad people, you know!
For petes sake man..get a bit of perspective!!!!!!
BillyNomates wrote:
I hate farmers. Anyone who chooses to liveout in the middle of nowhere obviously has serious character flaws and deserves to go bankrupt.
You pillock!!
Just because farmers feed meat to cows, poison the land with chemicals, dig up the hedgerows (and therefore ruin the nesting areas for birds), fill in the ditches (and therefore ruin the breeding areas for amphibians etc), let foxhunters dig up fox cubs and stop up fox holes (so they can't escape the childish cowards on horseback) on their land, stop law abiding people from using legitimate rights of way on their land and watch their beef farming colleagues livelihood go down the tubes because they cant afford the current extortionate price of grain to fed their cattle....it doesnt make them bad people, you know!
For petes sake man..get a bit of perspective!!!!!!
Does anyone know [bold]exactly[/bold] where this outbreak occured?
Only I was walking out in the forest at the weekend and dropped a big bag of Black-Jacks somewhere.
Does anyone know exactly where this outbreak occured?
Only I was walking out in the forest at the weekend and dropped a big bag of Black-Jacks somewhere.
[quote][bold]Sceptic[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]BillyNomates[/bold] wrote: I hate farmers. Anyone who chooses to liveout in the middle of nowhere obviously has serious character flaws and deserves to go bankrupt.[/quote] You pillock!! Just because farmers feed meat to cows, poison the land with chemicals, dig up the hedgerows (and therefore ruin the nesting areas for birds), fill in the ditches (and therefore ruin the breeding areas for amphibians etc), let foxhunters dig up fox cubs and stop up fox holes (so they can't escape the childish cowards on horseback) on their land, stop law abiding people from using legitimate rights of way on their land and watch their beef farming colleagues livelihood go down the tubes because they cant afford the current extortionate price of grain to fed their cattle....it doesnt make them bad people, you know! For petes sake man..get a bit of perspective!!!!!![/quote] SO THEY CAN FEED PILLOCKS LIKE YOU TWO
Sceptic wrote:
BillyNomates wrote: I hate farmers. Anyone who chooses to liveout in the middle of nowhere obviously has serious character flaws and deserves to go bankrupt.
You pillock!! Just because farmers feed meat to cows, poison the land with chemicals, dig up the hedgerows (and therefore ruin the nesting areas for birds), fill in the ditches (and therefore ruin the breeding areas for amphibians etc), let foxhunters dig up fox cubs and stop up fox holes (so they can't escape the childish cowards on horseback) on their land, stop law abiding people from using legitimate rights of way on their land and watch their beef farming colleagues livelihood go down the tubes because they cant afford the current extortionate price of grain to fed their cattle....it doesnt make them bad people, you know! For petes sake man..get a bit of perspective!!!!!!
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