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Blue Tongue Is Getting A Concern For Livestock Farmers


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The threat of Blue Tongue is getting a major concern among local livestock farmers around the Norfolk / Suffolk area , last week there were three cases and now there are 27 with restrictions on movements , this might even have a impact on game shooting with Partridge shooting starting tomorrow , nowadays it just seem one problem after another what with climate change , Badgers spreading T B and now the problem with Blue Tongue , who would want to be a farmer . :good:

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3 hours ago, marsh man said:

Deer could be the biggest problem in restricting the movement of animals , nigh on impossible to stop them moving from one infected farm to another .   MM

Read somewhere it is now spreading in the domestic midge population. 

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33 minutes ago, marsh man said:

Not surprized when it can spread by deer and no doubt other wild animals , the last I heard was it had entered Essex and might now be in the next county .   MM

Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, East Sussex are all control zones now.

We need a week or two of freezing weather to kill off the midges

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