Flicker
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Is MrsD still blethering on about this???
MrsD123
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fatpiggy
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I never ever touch a new horse on the yard for at least 2 weeks. Can't stop the horses talking to each other if they are in the same field (we have no quarantine where I keep mine, not even a fenced off area for them to introduce themselves safely 
) but I do think people are way too quick to go and stroke someone else's animal. Most newbies bring a minor sniffle with them, same as people do but you don't know what THEY were exposed to before they left their old place.
) but I do think people are way too quick to go and stroke someone else's animal. Most newbies bring a minor sniffle with them, same as people do but you don't know what THEY were exposed to before they left their old place.
aimsymc
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You have to on my yard after stay over shows baked bean! I think its a bit excessive to say the least, but not my yard and everything else about its Fab. 
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Cuffey
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fatpiggy
Sounds like your yard and no doubt many others have a lot of work to with arranging quarantine facilities.
As another poster suggested the risks of AHS entering the country and the 3 cases of EIA last year.
I spent a day in February at a workshop with DEFRA Animal Health and the NHS having an introduction to West Nile Virus and how an outbreak would be handled--eye opening I assure you
I also note in the H&H News that DEFRA are consulting with horseowners in Devon as to how they could have handled that EIA outbreak better.
At the above mentioned workshop one of the comments I made was that there was a total lack of good information and what action horse owners should take to protect their horses coming from DEFRA and this caused panic during the EIA outbreaks
Time for everyone to really look at their yards and see what can be done--well ahead of the next problem.
Sounds like your yard and no doubt many others have a lot of work to with arranging quarantine facilities.
As another poster suggested the risks of AHS entering the country and the 3 cases of EIA last year.
I spent a day in February at a workshop with DEFRA Animal Health and the NHS having an introduction to West Nile Virus and how an outbreak would be handled--eye opening I assure you
I also note in the H&H News that DEFRA are consulting with horseowners in Devon as to how they could have handled that EIA outbreak better.
At the above mentioned workshop one of the comments I made was that there was a total lack of good information and what action horse owners should take to protect their horses coming from DEFRA and this caused panic during the EIA outbreaks
Time for everyone to really look at their yards and see what can be done--well ahead of the next problem.