Oh deer, oh deer!

[rogcal]

From the BBC Lincolnshire website:

 

"Officials say 85 Lincolnshire farms are being tested for TB after a dead deer was found to be infected".

 

So, will the Badgers have spread it to the Deer population or the Deer to the Badgers.

 

Lots of "learned" people have been saying that many other species are also the vector for TB along with Badgers, so when will the Deer cull begin I wonder?

[TommyB]

It is already in full effect.

[Yellow Bear]

You can lay good odds the Badger brigade will be calling screaming for it before long

Edited November 17, 2016 by Yellow Bear

[old man]

Good solution, shoot all of the deer and farm livestock and save the badgers? ? ?

[Walker570]

I did my meat hyg., course way back when with the Game Keepers and the Keeper giving the main lecture said then that about 15%(if my memory serves) of all the deer they shot down Gloucestershire way had TB. Up until about 1987/88 I had not seen any sign down in Herefordshire and then we began to see animals obviously infected and I remember shooting one heavily infected which I had incinerated the next day. That was 1989. It was interesting that the dairy farm next door was under almost constant stoppage of movement due to reactors. The place was badger heaven, they were everywhere, in the woods and up every hedgerow.

 

Personally I think the TB issue in wildlife has now gone past the point of no return. Whatever fancy scheme the Government Experts come up with it will not be removed and that in my belief is because of the Wildlife Act giving badgers total protection. It is now so endemic it will be impossible to eradicate.

Edited November 18, 2016 by Walker570

[Dougy]

I'll be brief with this.

1960s TB in humans and cattle was virtually none existent in the UK.

Then badger population started to rise after they were placed on the protected list shortly after.

Then TB started to rear it's head again.

 

I'm no scientist but there seems something quite logical.

[sportsbob]

This timescale also coincides with mass immigration and it is well known and documented a high percentage of the immigrants that came here then had TB and a high percentage those that continue to come here also also TB.

[CharlieT]

I'll be brief with this.

1960s TB in humans and cattle was virtually none existent in the UK.

Then badger population started to rise after they were placed on the protected list shortly after.

Then TB started to rear it's head again.

 

I'm no scientist but there seems something quite logical.

 

It must be remembered that human TB is specific to humans and cattle can't catch it, whereas bovine TB ( bTB) can be caught by humans although the incidence is very low.

[activeviii]

I shoot a few fallow a year with TB. DEFRA dont wish to know. just leave them where shot is the reply i aways get. as long as im seen to be doing the right thing then im not accountable. the main area is over run with badgers but they are not in the cull area so the problem will not go away anytime soon.