Foot and Mouth

No problem with transporting horses, however you will probably have restrictions if you keep them with ruminants. Last time horses were not restricted, however transport for horses was restricted depending on where it was going to or coming from. If you have the opportunity - now could be the time to move your horse transport away from anywhere where sheep/cattle are kept. and if you can move your horses.
 
So many of us are stabled in areas where cattle are grazed even if they dont belong to the yard or farm we are on so IMO it would be foolish to move horses without definite clarification on this.

Looks like we will be doing the straw piles and dips again tomorow. I cant believe this is the third time in my life Ive experienced this.
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omg..
hang on a minute- my horses are turned out with cows. does that mean i shouldnt transport my horses? obviously i wont be turning them out together anymore but they have been out with them today- should i not go showjumping tomorrow?
 
We tend to pass cows in fields which ever way we hack out
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we don't have livestock on our yard though. We are in Essex so quite a long way away for Guildford (going there next week though
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I'm probably just over reacting and panicing
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Ive got nothing to worry about compared to some of you
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How truely awful. How much more can British Farming take this year???
My grandad gave up his farm in March after being there for almost 80 years, his father farmed it before him. So many times since march he's said how glad he is that he's packed it in.. the majority of what was his farm has been under water in all the floods , meat prices are rock bottom, fleece prices are rock bottom, anything arable has been a disaster, and now a F&M outbreak.
My heart goes out to all that farm
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Please, to all those who are local to the outbreak, make 100% sure that it is ok for you to hack out before you leave the yard, this just can't spread.
 
bloody awful. really feel for the farmers and hope that they can contain it. i live next to a cow farm(dairy) and dont think they would cope if FM spreads up here. hopefully government has learnt its leasons after last time
 
To those of you who stable on or adjacent to a farm - please don't hack out! Farming really can not take another epidemic.
 
Although DEFRA will probably allow you move horses off farm, albeit disinfecting leaving & on return with approved chemicals I'd imagine the farmer will not let you if he has any sense.
 
I am in a similar situation. The farm does have a small number of cattle on it although we dont have close contact. Given there is a national movement ban on cattle I am assuming that has got to apply to the horses as well as they are on the same premises.

The ban is national so the movement restictions apply to every cow in the country.
 
If you have any livestock near you, or your horses live with, I would not be taking the risk of taking your horses anywhere. Even though they have restriction zones around the farm, we don't know who went on this farm and travelled else where. Potentially it can spread anywhere.

IMO its just not worth the risk. Plus didn't a lot of equine events get cancelled in 2001?
 
Okay, so for those of us who are stupid (that'll be me then).

If our horses are stabled and grazed on a farm, does that mean we have to keep them within the actual farm , or just within the farm land?
 
omg this is sooooooo annoying...all the events cancelled due to rain and soon could be this!!!am i ever going to get a run in the next 10 years!
 
We all have to do our bit to prevent a spread - I know it may be inconvenient, but it is a small price to pay to prevent a repeat of what happened last time.

Best to er on the side of caution and check before transporting and/or hacking in certain areas.
 
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And sheep
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and every other cloven hoofed animal. All our sheep are now stuck at our other farm when we NEED to wean 600 lambs from their mothers. Our other farm is only 1 mile along the road BUT we will have to get a licence to move them, and then we will have to move the 600 lambs by trailer instead of walking them along the road.
 

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Ditto.

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Plus didn't a lot of equine events get cancelled in 2001?

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Yep, Badminton was one of the victims.
 
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omg this is sooooooo annoying...all the events cancelled due to rain and soon could be this!!!am i ever going to get a run in the next 10 years!

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Just think of the farmers and the animals that will have to be slaughtered if it spreads
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OHhhh F**k
Just come in from work and heard the end of the news,
I really hope its isolated case and that the government have learned from last time!!!
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Don't think farming can take any more this year!

ohh i hope and pray this is an isolated case !!!
 
Is the ban on movement already national? I realise this is a nightmare for farmers and my worries are tiny by comparison, but I'm just wondering. I'm supposed to be doing my first ever competition on Tuesday and its held on a working farm (they have pigs, I'm not sure if they have other animals) and there are cattle and sheep on the estate my yard is on
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Edited to say: my question has already been answered. This thread id moving so quickly that it moved on a lot while I was typing this post!

Is a pig a cloven hoof animal?
 
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